Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Information Division: Registered Files (ID Series)

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Reference: ED 223
Title: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Information Division: Registered Files (ID Series)
Description:

Registered files created by the Information Division of the Ministry of Education and the Department of Education and Science covering background information to the production of a publicity film and preparations for the centenary of the 1870 Education Act.
Date: 1963-1970
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ID file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, Information Division, 1964-1992

Ministry of Education, Information and External Relations Branch, 1945-1949

Ministry of Education, Information Branch, 1949-1964

Ministry of Education, Information Division, 1944-1944
Physical description: 6 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Selection and destruction information: Much of the material of the Information Division files was of a routine nature and has not been selected for permanent preservation.
Administrative / biographical background:

The early history of the Information Division is not clear. There had been a unit responsible for supplying information and liaising with the press since 1903. Originally this was regarded as a separate division attached to External Relations Branch or one of its predecessors but from time to time responsibility for the division was transferred to other branches within the department. It was not until the mid-1980s that the division was regarded as large and important enough to be recognised as a separate branch in its own right.

The division's responsibilities covered ministerial briefing, preparing of films and other publicity material, arranging departmental exhibitions at conferences, liaising with the press and arranging the printing of departmental publications.

For most of its existence the division had overall responsibilty for the department's press office.

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