Catalogue description Board of Trade: Council for Art and Industry: Minutes and Papers

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Reference: BT 57
Title: Board of Trade: Council for Art and Industry: Minutes and Papers
Description:

Minutes, reports and papers of the Council for Art and Industry and its sub-committees. Some papers survive registered later than 1940, but they refer to earlier activities.
Date: 1934-1940
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Council for Art and Industry, 1934-1944
Physical description: 35 box(es)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Council for Art and Industry was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade in January 1934 as a standing body to deal with the relationship between art and industry. It made several reports and organised exhibitions before it ceased to meet on the outbreak of war. Its appointment was formally revoked at the end of 1944, when its functions were taken over by the Council of Industrial Design.

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