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Criminal court cases: Crown courts since 1972 - The National …
6. Director of Public Prosecutions files. The Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was created in 1879 with powers to institute and conduct criminal proceedings in any of the senior criminal courts – assizes, King’s/Queen’s Bench or Central Criminal Court, and, …
What methods did the Suffragettes use to gain the vote?
Throughout the nineteenth century, women played a prominent role in the fight for political rights. In the second half of the century, three major acts were passed extending political rights – but not to women. Women made only limited progress towards being able to control their own affairs and they did not have the right […]
The 1921 Census of England and Wales - The National Archives
The 1921 Census: the largest census release ever in England and Wales. On 19 June 1921, close to 38 million individuals in England and Wales completed a census return.
Medieval Society - The National Archives
Tasks; Background; Teachers' notes; External links; Connection to curriculum ; Medieval women’s lives were as varied as they are today, but unlike today, most women (and men) lived in the countryside and worked the land on what were known as manors, estates on which tenants rented their properties from the lord and often performed services for him at harvest time.
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What records we hold - The National Archives. What records we hold - The National Archives What records we hold As the official public archive of . Source: The National Archives Website 20-year rule - The National Archives. Records Act requires central government departments, and certain other public bodies, to identify records. Source: The National Archives Website
Merchant Navy ships’ records: crew lists, musters and log books
6. How to find muster books. The main record series for muster books is BT 98.. Click on BT 98 to search by date and name of British port where the ship was registered.. Alternatively, browse BT 98/1-139 (1747 to 1853) to view all the ports and years for which there are records in this period.. A few muster rolls survive in other record series.
Land ownership records and deeds: an overview - The National …
Ownership of properties may have been recorded as part of a national survey. Dating from the 19 th and 20 th centuries, these are the most recent types of record at The National Archives that may record ownership of land.The most comprehensive survey of land ownership was the Valuation Office survey between 1910 and 1915. Together with tithes and enclosure records and the farm survey in the ...
Cold War on File - The National Archives
Introduction. Who first coined the phrase “Cold War”? The general consensus among historians is that it was the celebrated author and journalist, George Orwell, in his essay ‘You and the Atom Bomb’ published in the Tribune magazine on 19 October 1945 (though one biographer has traced his use of the phrase back to 1943).
1939 Register - The National Archives
1. What are these records? The 1939 Register provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. As the 1931 census for England and Wales was destroyed by fire during the Second World War and no census was taken in 1941, the Register provides […]