Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Establishment and Finance: Correspondence and Papers

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Reference: MAF 39
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and predecessors: Establishment and Finance: Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Papers bearing on the history and organisation of the department and records of various departmental and other committees, including earlier records of the Copyhold, Enclosure and Tithe Commissions and of the County War Agricultural Executive Committees and the County Agricultural Executive Committees.

There is also a file containing plans drawn up in 1936 for the operation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in wartime, plans which were very largely brought into operation in 1939. Contains some papers re-registered from the EE file series (MAF 183), EP file series (MAF 184) and REG files series: MAF 269

Date: 1839-1965
Related material:

For further records on Enclosure Awards see MAF 1

Separated material:

Some SE files re-registered into:

MAF 227

MAF 390

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SE file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 424 file(s)
Access conditions: Open

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