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Public Record Office

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  • Farther, W. Noel Sainsbury, Esq., one of the officers of what is now called the Public Record Office, had published a calendar of all the papers relating to the British colonies in North

    Colonial Records of Virginia Various

  • In the days when it was still called the Public Record Office, then as now located just south of Kew Bridge in west London, I used to do the annual trek to pour over fading correspondence and cabinet minutes, armed with a bag of history books to explain cryptic civil service records.

    The Guardian World News 2009

  • RAF raid on the night of May 15–16: War Cabinet meetings, 14 May 1940 and 15 May 1940, The National Archive, Kew, UK, formerly called the Public Record Office; Horst Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War, vol.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • The National Archives, Kew, UK formerly called the Public Record Office

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • RAF raid on the night of May 15–16: War Cabinet meetings, 14 May 1940 and 15 May 1940, The National Archive, Kew, UK, formerly called the Public Record Office; Horst Boog et al., Germany and the Second World War, vol.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • The National Archives, Kew, UK formerly called the Public Record Office

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • The handwritten ledgers, detailing the rateable value and often the price of every property, have been available at the Public Record Office in west London for some time.

    A central London house for £20,000 – how prices looked in 1910 2011

  • The Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission merged in April 2003 to become the National Archives see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

    For the record 2011

  • The Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission merged in April 2003 to become the National Archives see www.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

    For the record 2011

  • Sisman quotes a note of his to an admirer: "I ought to sit, night and day, in the Bodleian library or the Public Record Office, 'with learned dust besprent' ... wearing an eye-shade over my nose and munching a periodic dry bun, in order, by my copying of earlier copyists, to earn my place in some future Dunciad."

    In praise of losers 2010

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