Catalogue description Public Record Office: Registered Case Files (CASE and 2/CASE series)

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Details of PRO 84
Reference: PRO 84
Title: Public Record Office: Registered Case Files (CASE and 2/CASE series)
Description:

This series contains files from the Public Record Office's own CASE (1976-1981) and 2/CASE (1982-1986) registered file series dealing with individual cases. Many files are from the Records Administration Division dealing with the appointment of individual places of deposit for public records, and guidance given to individual government departments on appraisal and public access to records. Other files deal with the retention and disposal of series of records, loans of records to other institutions, editorial work on records in the PRO, strayed public records, deposit of non-public records in the PRO, and the use of automatic data processing (computers) in individual government departments.

Date: 1953-1991
Arrangement:

Records are arranged in file prefix order.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CASE and 2/CASE series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Public Record Office, 1838-2003

Public Record Office, Records Administration Division, 1958-1991

Physical description: 941 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2014 The National Archives

Custodial history: The records have been stored in the Public Record Office, which became The National Archives in 2003.
Accumulation dates: 1976 to 1986
Accruals: Series is accruing

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