Catalogue description Obsolete Lists, Indexes and Miscellaneous Summaries and Reports associated with Public Record Office Holdings

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Reference: OBS 1
Title: Obsolete Lists, Indexes and Miscellaneous Summaries and Reports associated with Public Record Office Holdings
Description:

This series consists of finding aids which have been superseded, but which have been retained as evidence of former archival arrangement or practice, or which contain information not readily available elsewhere. It also includes catalogues, calendars, reports and summaries relating to records held by the Public Record Office, and those held by other bodies prior to the Public Record Office Act 1838.

Date: 1700-1985
Arrangement:

The document references are allocated as accessioned, but the catalogue is arranged in alphabetical order of subject headings. These headings relate mainly to the names of the departments from which the documents originated, or to whose records they pertain.

Related material:

additional finding aid ZBOX 1/96/4

additional finding aid ZBOX 1/96/3

additional finding aid ZBOX 1/96/1

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 1561 files and volumes
Unpublished finding aids:

A numerical key is available, giving the covering piece numbers for the subject headings used in the catalogue.

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