Catalogue description Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Archaeological Unit: Registered Files (AE Series)

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Details of PF 309
Reference: PF 309
Title: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors: Archaeological Unit: Registered Files (AE Series)
Description:

This series contains correspondence and papers relating to ancient monuments and historic buildings, on subjects including repair works and maintenance, acquisitions and taking into guardianship and details of archaeological excavations. In particular, this series includes records relating to the Royal Palaces and the Windsor Castle fire, in respect to maintenance and other works stemming from this incident.

Date: 1980-1994
Related material:

For related records regarding the management and administration of ancient monuments and historic buildings see WORK 14

For records relating to work undertaken at the Royal Palaces see PF 233
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AE
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1997-2017

Department of National Heritage, 1992-1997

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
Physical description: 28 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2022 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Custodial history: Department for National Heritage 1992-1997; Department for Culture, Media and Sport 1997-2017; Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2017-present
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Upon the establishment of the Department for National Heritage in 1992, responsibility for anicent monuments, the Royal Palaces, historic buildings and archaeology transferred from the Department of the Environment. Under the responsibility of the Department for National Heritage and subsequently the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the same prefix (AE, Archaeological Unit) was utilised, as it had been done previously in the Department of the Environment.

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