August 2001
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO
reference
Date
Description
1950
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
and its predecessors: Michael W Perrin interviews with
Dr Klaus Fuchs following his arrest for espionage,
January to March 1950
1950
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
and its predecessors List of Dr Fuch's files, reports and
property in his possession at the time of his defection
AT 65/7
1987
Records created or inherited by the Department of the
Environment, and of related bodies: Fire at King's Cross
underground station, London 18 November 1987:
assistance to investigation
AT 65/16
1986
Fire at Hampton Court Palace, Surrey, 31 March 1986:
report
AT 65/23
Hillsborough football stadium tragedy, Sheffield, 15 April
1988-89 1989: Building Research Establishment submission to
Inquiry
DEFE 31/9
19571968
Records of the Ministry of Defence Cabinet Committees:
JIC (A) correspondence
DO 130/124
1969
Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office:
Visit by Bernadette Devlin, MP, to the Republic of
Ireland
DO 130/125
1965-66 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1916 Easter Rising
DO 130/128
1962-63
DO 130/130
1962-63 Reactions in Dublin to the death of Sir Winston Churchill
AB 1/695
AB 6/723
Release of IRA prisoners held in Northern Ireland and
English prisons
and arrangements for his memorial service.
FCO 57/152
1970
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
Predecessors: Memorial service in St Paul's Cathedral
for General de Gaulle, 19 November
FCO 57/164
1970
Visit of US President Nixon to London, 3 October
FCO 57/178
1970
Measures for the safety and protection of foreign and
Commonwealth diplomats in London
FCO 57/191
1970
Visit by the Prince of Wales to Iran to attend the 2,500th
anniversary celebrations of the foundation of the Iranian
monarchy
FO 527/63
1962
Visit of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh:
accommodation arrangements
FO 527/65
1962
Visit of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: HM
Ambassador's reception
FO 1115/2
1968-69
British Attitude to the Winston Churchill Memorial in
Fulton, Missouri, USA
LAB 13/2755
1961
Records of departments responsible for labour and
employment matters and related bodies:
Correspondence relating to activities of trade unions in
various countries, and their relationships with the
Communist Party
LAB 13/2756
Correspondence between the British Government and
overseas governments relating to a forged British
1960-62
Cabinet paper concerning British involvement in Africa's
trade unions
PREM
11/2931
1958-60
NATO: meetings of Council Ministers in Paris, December
1959; part 8
HW 41/126
1977
Signals intelligence operations in the Middle East 19341936
HW 43/1
Vol I: Chapters I-XII. Period 1: 'Introductory, Aug 19141914-43 Aug 1939'. Period 2: 'Improvising, Sept 1939-Dec 1940'.
Period 3: 'Formative, Jan 1941-Feb 1942'
HW 43/2
Vol II: Chapters XIII-XVIII. Period 4: 'Expansion and
Integration, Spring 1942-Autumn 1943', including
Chapter XIII, 'Organisational Problems at Bletchley
Park', Chapter XIV, 'Organisational Problems of the
1942-43
Service Ministries in the United Kingdom', Chapter XVI,
'The Cryptananalytic Contribution to the War in the West'
and Chapter XVII, 'The Intelligence Contribution to the
War in the West'
HW 43/3
Vol III: 'Appendices', by Monica Zambra, containing
diagrams and terms of reference for Sigint
organisations. Chapter II, 'The Ministries' and Chapter
1940-45
III, 'GC&CS' are of particular interest. Frank Birch, who
compiled Vols I and II, died before completing Vol II,
leaving Monica Zambra to compile Vol III
WORK 85/1
Parks and Palaces: Parliament Square, London;
1946-51 memoranda on proposed improvements to Square and
drainage facilities
WORK 85/19
1965
London Transport Bill 1965: proposed Aldwych to
Waterloo tube extension; correspondence and reports
on implications of the Bill and its effect on buildings
occupying Crown land