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  The Security Service: Subject (SF series) Files

  The early part of this series comprises the only two subject files known to have survived from the First World War period . Later files in the series relate to other subjects tackled by the Security Service, including the recovery of British official…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1905-1978

  Reference

  KV 3

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  Committee of Imperial Defence: Miscellaneous Correspondence and Memoranda

  This series consists of miscellaneous correspondence and papers accumulated by the Secretariat of the Committee of Imperial Defence concerning various matters dealt with by the Committee, and by its principal Sub-committees, during the period 1902-19…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1902-1919

  Reference

  CAB 17

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  Office of Works and successors: Royal Ordnance Factories: Correspondence and Papers

  This series contains correspondence and papers relating to contracts for the construction of emergency ordnance filling factories and ancillary buildings before, during and after the Second World War.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1936-1951

  Reference

  WORK 26

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  Office of Works and Successors: Registered Files: Deep Tube Shelters

  This series contains files relating to the maintenance and disposal of the World War II underground air-raid shelters (deep tube shelters) constructed in London at Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Belsize Park, Goodge Street and Camden Town.…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1955-1998

  Reference

  WORK 95

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  Board of Education and Ministry of Education: Evacuation Branch, Second World War,...

  Board of Education and Ministry of Education Evacuation Branch records reflecting their responsibilities for wartime services.The series contains a number of file series which were opened shortly after the outbreak of war. With one exception, these a…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1959

  Reference

  ED 134

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  War Office: Directorate of Labour: Papers

  The series consists mainly of reports to the directorate concerning the activities of the Pioneer Corps in various parts of the world.

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1945

  Reference

  WO 253

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  Colonial Office: Kenya Information Service: Photographs

  This series consists of a number of photographs taken by staff of the Kenya Information Service at the time of the Mau Mau uprising, showing scenes from the uprising as well as images from everyday life in Kenya at the time.

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1951-1961

  Reference

  CO 1066

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  War Cabinet and Cabinet Office: London Controlling Section Correspondence and Papers

  This series contains the correspondence and papers of the London Controlling Section mainly relating to deception activities during the Second World War.

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1940-1978

  Reference

  CAB 154

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  Meteorological Office: Administrative Records

  Files of the Air Ministry, Royal Air Force and Meteorological Office relating to a wide range of business. Subject matter includes international co-operation and research into meteorology and oceanography, meteorological intelligence during the Secon…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1910-1998

  Reference

  BJ 5

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  Board of Trade: Import Licensing Branch: Files

  This series contains files of the Import Licensing Department and the Import Licensing Branch of the Industries and Manufactures Department of the Board of Trade.Import licensing was introduced during the First World War in order to conserve foreign …

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1923-1966

  Reference

  BT 230

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  War Office: Geographical Section General Staff and Historical Section: War of 1914-1918:...

  Topographical, geological, reconnaissance and operations (trench) maps of Persia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Arabia, Palestine, Sinai, Egypt, Sudan and Libya: the series includes coverage of an area from Syria to Cyrenaica, with detailed mapping of the W…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1880-1984

  Reference

  WO 303

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  William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl Midleton: Papers

  Papers of St. John Brodrick, later ninth Viscount and first Earl of Midleton, Secretary of State for War, 1900 to 1903, and Secretary of State for India, 1903 to 1905. Also included are papers relating to Irish affairs during the time of the 'trouble…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1885-1941

  Reference

  PRO 30/67

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  Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum: Papers

  These papers of the first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum cover his life and career from 1877 to his death in 1916. They fall into four main categories.The first category are papers, official and private, connected with his surveys of Palestine and Cyprus…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1877-1938

  Reference

  PRO 30/57

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  Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966

  This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Foreign Office's Political Departments (including the War Department, 1914 to 1920, the Political Intelligence Department, 1918 to 1920, and the Political Intelligence Department, 1939-1946), and of c…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1903-1966

  Reference

  FO 371

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  War Office: British Army Medal Index Cards, Second World War

  This series consists of medal index cards (Form C.S.20) denoting the medal entitlement of officers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks who served in selected regiments of the British Army during the Second World War. C.S.20 medal cards take t…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1948-1999

  Reference

  WO 460

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  War Office: Indian Army: Honours and Decorations, British Officers

  This series contains records relating to honours and decorations awarded to British officers serving in the Indian Army during and after the Second World War. The series extends up to the partition of India in 1947

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1939-1945

  Reference

  WO 432

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  War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate...

  The series consists of records of the Directorate of Military Intelligence as established in 1939, together with some inherited from the former Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence.Additional sections were formed during the course of t…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1917-1990

  Reference

  WO 208

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  Department of Health and Social Security and predecessors: Selected War Pensions...

  This series contains personal case files on disablement pensions arising from service in the Army or Navy before the First World War and case files concerning widows of such servicemen.The files contain medical records (in some cases including X-rays…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1854-1979

  Reference

  PIN 71

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  Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...

  Records of the General Register Office (GRO), Office of National Statistics (ONS), Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the collection of i…

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  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  1567-2022

  Reference

  RG

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  War Office: The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Other Ranks: Service...

  This series consists of the 56,261 service records of soldiers (but not officers) who served in the Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) during the Second World War and immediately after, and who were discharged from the armed fo…

  Held by

  The National Archives, Kew

  Date

  [1942-1963]

  Reference

  WO 420