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2. Public Record Office - Wikipedia

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   The Public Record Office [a] (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based in Kew.

3. The National Archives (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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   TNA was formerly four separate organisations: the Public Record Office (PRO), the Historical Manuscripts Commission, the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) and His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). The Public Record Office still exists as a legal entity, as the enabling legislation has not been modified, [6] [7] and documents held by ...

4. List of Keepers of the Records in the Tower of London

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   Parliament took on Ryley, who had come to London, in 1644, who served as clerk of the records. [11] [12] 1651: The Long Parliament decided that the Master of the Rolls should take over the post, with a clerk to look into the records. [13] Ryley, who had been assistant to Selden, retained the post. [14] 1660–1669: William Prynne. [15]

5. The London Archives - Wikipedia

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   Under the Public Records Act 1958, the record office became recognised as a place of deposit for public records relating to the London area, including hospitals and courts. Since the creation of the London County Council there had been a record keeper in the Clerks Department who held custody of the documents.

6. County record office - Wikipedia

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   The earliest county record office in the modern sense was the Bedfordshire Record Office, established by George Herbert Fowler in 1913. To some extent it was operating within established traditions set by the London-based Public Record Office (now The National Archives ), which first opened in 1838, or by other repositories overseas.

7. State papers - Wikipedia

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   Such papers used to be kept separate from non-governmental papers, with state papers kept in the State Paper Office and general public records kept in the Public Record Office. When they were written, they were regarded as the personal papers of the government officials writing them, but in 1702, the State Papers Office was established and ...

8. Parliamentary Archives - Wikipedia

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   The Parliamentary Archives of the United Kingdom preserves and makes available to the public the records of the House of Lords and House of Commons back to 1497, as well as some 200 other collections of parliamentary interest. The present title was officially adopted in November 2006, as a change from the previous title, the House of Lords ...

9. Foreign and Commonwealth Office Migrated Archives - Wikipedia

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   The Public Record Office Act was passed in 1838 to 'keep safely the public records'. It was then concerned only with legal documents. The legislation was amended in 1877 and 1898, but it was not until the appointment of the Grigg Committee in 1952 and the drafting of the 1958 Public Records Act that there was any attempt to define 'public record'.