Division within CAB1902-1987Records of the Historical Section
Registered files of the Historical Section are in CAB 103, while unregistered correspondence and papers mainly relating to the histories of the First World War are in CAB 45 and to those of the Second World War in CAB 140
Copies of the papers of Graf von Schlieffen, Chief of the German General Staff, are in CAB 20. Files of documents, mainly copies, used in the preparation of the histories of the Second World War are in CAB 106, while those of the Enemy Documents Section are in CAB 146
Drafts of the histories of the First World War are in CAB 44, which also includes the narratives, or Blue Books, prepared for the histories of the Second World War. Copies of the published histories of the Second World War, with original departmental references to documents, will be found in CAB 101 for the military series and in CAB 102 for the civil series. Selections of maps and plans prepared for the historiams writing these histories are in CAB 145 for the military series and CAB 167 for the civil series. Papers relating to postwar peacetime histories are in CAB 157
Preparatory versions of the map which appears in the Official History of Colonial Development, vols I-V, are in CAB 166