Catalogue description Ministry of Information: Files of Correspondence

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Details of INF 1
Reference: INF 1
Title: Ministry of Information: Files of Correspondence
Description:

These files contain the more important papers of the Ministry of Information (1939 to 1946) and are representative of the eleven series of files formerly kept by the divisions or branches of the Ministry.

The files include material relating to the immediate pre-war period and also the Minutes of the Inter-Allied Information Committee (New York), 1940 to 1943. The series is in two parts; the first part comprises non-confidential files (INF 1/1 to INF 1/435) and the second part contains a mixture of classified and non-confidential files.

Date: 1936-1950
Arrangement:

Numerical order under ministry division.

Related material:

Home Intelligence Division files of the Ministry of Information are in

HO 262

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Information, 1939-1946

Physical description: 992 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2005 Central Office of Information

Accruals: Series is accruing

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