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
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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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