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