March 2001
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO
reference
Date
Description
Records of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
and its predecessors
AB 16/231
1948
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority: Publicity and
censorship
Records created or inherited by the British Transport
Commission, the British Railways Board, and related
bodies
AN 172/274
1951
Royal Train: includes new carriages and outfitting of
saloons, staffing and conveyancing (parts I & II)
AN 172/275
1942
Royal Train: arrangements and instructions (parts I & II)
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and
related bodies
BT 299/308
1970
Robert Maxwell and Co Ltd: appointment of inspectors
under s165 of the Companies Act 1948 and subsequent
representations from Mr Maxwell
Records of the Cabinet Office
CAB 125/176 1954
Foreign Office and Joint Intelligence Committee. Military
and civil operational use and control of radio in war report by Lord Strang
CAB 127/384 1932
Cabinet Office: Private Collections of Ministers' and
Officials' papers. J Ramsay MacDonald: report of the
Gold Delegation of the League of Nations
Records of the Ministry of Defence
DEFE
13/1012
1952-57
DEFE
13/1014
1957
GRAPPLE X nuclear test: correspondence with Mr
Holyoake Prime Minister of New Zealand
DEFE
13/1015
1957
Danger area for GRAPPLE X nuclear test
DEFE
13/1016
1957
Public announcement of GRAPPLE X nuclear test
Atomic weapons trials 1955-1957
Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office,
and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and
Commonwealth Offices
DO 216/2
1964
Nigeria and Apartheid
DO 216/3
1963
South Africa; racial conflict; UK interests
DO 216/4
1964
South Africa; racial policy
DO 216/7-9
1963
Export of military equipment to South Africa
Records created or inherited by the Department of
Education and Science, and of related bodies
Department of Education and Science
ED 269/1
Education (Milk) Bill 1971; drafts of legislation relating to
1970-71 the withdrawal of free school milk to children between
the ages of 7 and 12; comments and proposals
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
predecessors
FCO 31/740
1970
Ugandan citizenship proposals for Asian UK passport
holders
FCO 46/359
1968-69
Record of Soviet Union activities in British Indian Ocean
Territory: strategic planning: Bases & Facilities
FCO 46/381
1968-69 Live training with napalm
FCO 46/248
1968
Further United Kingdom measures to support NATO on
the Czechoslovak crisis
FCO 46/249
1968
Further United Kingdom measures to support NATO on
the Czechoslovak crisis
FCO 46/314
1968-69 British military assistance to Libya
FCO 46/315
1968-69 British military assistance to Libya
FCO 46/316
1968-69 British military assistance to Libya
FCO 46/318
1968
British military assistance in Kuwait
FCO 46/319
1968
British military assistance in Kuwait
Records created or inherited by the Home Office,
Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies
Interdepartmental Working Party on Unauthorised
HO 255/1078 1967-68 Eavesdropping: Inland Telecommunications (ITD),
General Post Office (GPO) involvement
RAY, James Earl, alias SNEYD, Ramon George: papers
relating to his imprisonment in Wandsworth Prison,
London while he was waiting extradition to USA for his
alleged assassination of Martin Luther King
HO 336/11
1968
HO 336/10
MITCHELL, Frank Samuel alias ELLIS (known as "the
Mad Axeman"): tried at Nottingham Assizes in March
1954-69 1957 and convicted of wounding with intent to murder;
sentenced to 9 years imprisonment. Files include details
of earlier criminal career.
HW 13/220
Records created and inherited by Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
1940-42
Second World War Intelligence Summaries based on
Sigint. Libyan campaign diary
HW 18/240
1942
Enemy vessels sunk or damaged in the Mediterranean
and Black Sea