The Second World War : a guide to documents in the Public Record Office
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The Second World War : a guide to documents in the Public Record Office
(Public Record Office handbooks, no. 15)
HMSO, c1993
2nd ed
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The vast amount of World War II material to be found in the Public Record Office, particularly among the records of the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Office and the three Service Departments, is analyzed and illustrated in this guide. It describes the classes of the records and places them in their administrative context, indicating the offices held by the leading ministers, service chiefs and officials involved. The appendices include material about documents relating to war crimes and to the preparation of the series of Official War Histories, also published by HMSO.
Table of Contents
- Central direction of the war
- admirality
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
- Air Ministry
- Ministry of Aircraft Production
- Assistance Board
- Civil Service Commission
- Colonial Office
- Combined Operations Headquarters
- Control Commission for Germany and Allied Commission for Austria
- courts of law and administrative tribunals
- crown agents for the colonies
- Board of Customs and Excise
- Dominions office
- Ministry of Economic Welfare
- Education and arts departments
- Ministry of Food
- Foreign Office
- Forestry Commission
- Registry of Friendly Societies
- Ministry of Fuel and Power
- General Register Office
- Government Acturary's Department
- Government Chemist's Department
- Ministry of Health
- Home Office
- Ministry of Home Security
- Ministry of Information
- Board of Inland Revenue
- Irish sailors' and soldiers' land trust
- Ministry of Labour and National Services
- land registry
- law officers
- Lord Chancellor's department
- Metropolitan Police
- Royal Mint
- Ministry of National Insurance
- National Savings Commission
- ordnance survey
- Paymaster General's Office
- Ministry of Pensions
- Political Welfare Executive
- Ministry of Production
- Department of the Director of Public Prosecutions
- Public Record Office
- Public Trustee Office
- Royal Commissions (Standing)
- Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
- HM Stationary Office
- Ministry of Supply
- Tithe Redemption Commission
- Ministry of Town and County Planning
- Board of Trade
- Transport Departments
- Treasury
- Treasury solicitor
- Wallace Collection
- War Damage Commission
- War Office
- Works Department.
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