22 August 2003 releases
August 2003
| Catalogue ref. | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Records of the Civil Service Department | ||
| BA 17/306 BA 17/307 |
1971 | Government departments:
Hiving-off of certain functions carried out by government departments: Policy. |
| BA 17/358 BA 17/359 BA 17/360 |
1970-71 | Commission on the Constitution (Crowther Commission):
preparation of evidence about the introduction of a federal structure of government in Britain. |
| BA 17/393 | 1971 | Dispersal review: savings, cost and benefits. |
| BA 17/411 BA 17/412 |
1971 | Matters arising from UK entry to the European Economic Community:
Machinery of Government interest. |
| BA 17/413 | 1971 | Home Office Working Group on Contingency Planning:
civil emergencies; working papers. |
| BA 17/418 BA 17/419 |
1971 | Review of the activities of government:
preparation of a white paper. |
| BA 17/455 | 1970-71 | Study of parliamentary accountability. |
| BA 17/470 | 1970-71 | Allocation of official residences to Ministers
Responses to questions from Arthur Lewis MP about ministers' tax-free allowances. Includes a history of who lived when in no 10- before and after Sir Robert Walpole. |
| BA 17/587 | 1971-72 | Commission on the Constitution:
introduction of a federal structure of government in Britain. |
| BA 17/632 | 1972 | Matters arising from UK membership of the European Economic Community:
Machinery of Government interest. |
| BA 17/635 | 1971-72 | House of Lords:
examination of policy on Peers in the service of the Crown. Discussion about whether peers who are also civil servants should be allowed to speak in the House of Lords. |
| Records of the Colonial Office and related bodies | ||
| CO 936/821 | 1963-64 | Hong Kong. |
| Records of the Director of Public Prosecutions | ||
| DPP 1/46 | 1916 | CASEMENT, Sir R, and another.
Offence: high treason. 6 parts. |
| Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors | ||
| FCO 12/123 FCO 12/149 |
1971-72 | Private papers of Lord Avon:
Correspondence with the former Sir Anthony Eden about his wish to house some of his papers at Birmingham University, and to ensure that biographers will have access to his papers in the Foreign Office. |
| FCO 12/28 | 1967-68 | Official Secrets Act:
Legal aspects concerning the Official Secrets Act and the publication of memoirs of Sir Pierson Dixon by his son. Also contains minuting on a report that kidnapping of Tshombe had been arranged by CIA. |
| FCO 12/29 FCO 12/30 |
1967 | Suez crisis:
Vetting of Anthony Nutting's book 'No end of a lesson' about the Suez crisis. Former Government Minister Anthony Nutting has neglected to tell the government until very late in the day that he is writing a book about the Suez crisis. The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, seeks advice on the page proofs. |
| FCO 12/55 | 1967-68 | Publication of Vatican archives
Contains copies and translations of papers between the British Government and the Holy See during the Second World War. Also includes a later controversy in 1967 about the unfavourable portrayal of the British Government's role in not relieving the wartime famine in Greece. This criticism was printed in a Catholic publication La Civil Cattolica. |
| FCO 12/61 FCO 12/77 |
1967-69 | Lord Avon. |
| FCO 12/62 | 1967-68 | Lord Butler. |
| FCO 16/50 FCO 16/51 FCO 16/52 |
1967-68 | SAS and commando training of Kenyan forces. |
| FCO 21/1021 | 1972 | Attempts by Soviet Union to gain a foothold in Hong Kong
- Papers relating to the espionage activities of the USSR in Hong Kong. The British and Chinese governments both mistrusted the USSR for sending spies, who had never been to sea before, as "sailors" on Soviet ships. The file includes information about Chinese-born Ho Hung Yan who the British expelled for spying. |
| FCO 21/730 | 1970 | Relations between China and Hong Kong. |
| FCO 24/1334 | 1972 | Foreign policy of Government of Australia. |
| FCO 26/1120 | 1972 | Establishment of a Trades Union Information Centre. |
| FCO 41/200 | 1967 | Nuclear Planning Group within NATO. |
| FCO 49/105 | 1967-68 | Gibraltar:
constitutional discussions. |
| FCO 67/789 | 1972 | Oil affairs in Libya. |
| Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature and related courts | ||
| J 291/59 | 1973-76 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/60 J 291/62 J 291/63 J 291/64 J 291/65 J 291/66 |
1961-74 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/67 J 291/68 J 291/69 J 291/70 J 291/71 J 291/72 |
1964-74 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/73 J 291/74 J 291/75 J 291/76 J 291/77 J 291/78 |
1961-73 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/79 J 291/80 J 291/81 J 291/82 J 291/83 J 291/84 |
1959-73 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/85 J 291/86 J 291/87 J 291/88 J 291/89 J 291/90 |
1966-73 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/91 J 291/92 J 291/93 J 291/94 J 291/95 J 291/96 |
1963-73 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| J 291/97 J 291/98 J 291/99 J 291/100 J 291/101 |
1967-73 | Supreme Court of Judicature:
Crown Court at Leeds: Case Files. |
| Records of the pre-nationalisation railway companies, pre-nationalisation canal and related companies, the London Passenger Transport Board, and successors | ||
| RAIL 257/101 | 1852 | Letter from I K Brunel
regarding the opposition of the Forest of Dean Railway to the Forest of Dean Central Railway Bill. |
| RAIL 258/608 | 1880 | Correspondence between F G Saunders (Secretary, Great Western Railway Company) and H M Brunel (Isambard Kingdom Brunel's son)
regarding storage of I K Brunel's papers at Paddington Station, London. |
| Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office | ||
| FO 370/2911 | 1966 | Request by Lord Avon (Sir Anthony Eden) for access to his papers held by Foreign Office
- Attempts by the former Prime Minister to obtain access to private papers left behind at the Foreign Office when he moved to no 10. He is told that his understanding that he would have access to his papers is overridden by the 1958 Public Records Act. |
| FO 371/26980 FO 371/26993 |
1941 | Tangier: S.O. activities |
| FO 371/26989 | 1941 | Translation of speech made by Senor Prieto, Defence Minister in 1938 |
| FO 371/27004 | 1941 | Activities of Spanish consuls |
| FO 371/27198 | 1941 | Russo-Persian Railway Convention |
| FO 371/28329 | 1941 | Employment of Mr Colson |
| FO 371/28359 | 1941 | French refugees in St. Lucia |
| FO 371/28434 | 1941 | Activities of Monsieur M. Rougier |
| FO 371/28444 | 1941 | M Kierkens, President of the Association des Volontaires |
| FO 371/28500 | 1941 | Activities of Mr Routh in Monrovia |
| FO 371/28518 | 1941 | M Pierre Benedictus |
| FO 371/28526 | 1941 | M Tesson |
| FO 371/28591 | 1941 | Sabotage by S.O.E. of British and Allied ships in French African ports |
| FO 371/28594 | 1941 | Assistance for de Gaulle representatives in France |
| FO 371/28599 | 1941 | Dakar executions |
| FO 371/28919 | 1941 | M. Russianowski, Budapest |
| FO 371/29373 | 1941 | German military activities in Finland |
| FO 371/29404 | 1941 | Propaganda among German troops in Finland and Norway |
| FO 371/29410 | 1941 | Operation "Rubble" |
| FO 371/29425 | 1941 | Operations "Rubble" and "Performance"
- Discussions with the Swedes (including Swedish financier and wartime diplomat Marcus Wallenberg) about moving Norwegian ships from Gothenberg in the face of German opposition. |
| FO 371/61675 | 1947 | Discussions regarding withdrawal of British troops and revision of Treaty |
| FO 371/63230 | 1947 | Communication between political and military bodies in the Middle East |
