May 2001
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO
reference
Date
Description
DEFE 48/1
1965
Records of the Ministry of Defence: Chemical warfare
and the land battle in Europe in the period 1968-1973:
notes on the expenditure of chemical, biological suits
and ammunition
DEFE 48/34
1965
Civilian population at risk in chemical warfare in NorthWest Europe 1968-1973
DEFE 48/36
1966
Examination of force strengths needed to halt a given
Russian threat
DO 121/84
Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office,
and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and
1941-43
Commonwealth Offices: German wireless transmitter,
Dublin
DO 121/87
1943-44 Reports on German legation in Dublin
DO 121/89
1945-46
Proposed disclosure to Eire of source of secret
information
DO 196/311
1964
India; successor to Mr Nehru
DO 196/539
1965-66 Indian production of nuclear weapons
DPP 2/957
1942
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: Defence Regulations 1939 39A (1)(b)
FCO 24/705
1970 71
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and
its predecessors: Assisted passages for prospective
emigrants from UK to Australia
FCO 24/832
1970-71 Visit of Prime Minister of UK, Mr Heath to Malaysia
FCO 28/1138 1970
Soviet Union; Pre-1939 Tsarist Claims against Soviet
Government
FO
371/20285
1936
Records created and inherited by the Foreign Office:
Japan
HO
144/21839
Records created or inherited by the Home Office,
Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies: WAR:
1940-43
Ruth Margaret Beckett, wife of ex-heavyweight boxing
champion: detention under Defence Regulation 18B
HO
144/21840
1940-43
WAR: Joseph Beckett, ex-heavyweight boxing champion
and his wife: detention under Defence Regulation 18B
HO 256/846
1974-77
Effects of television on society: reports, correspondence
and literature
INF 12/1320
Records created or inherited by the Central Office of
Information: Security and defence of economic and
1951-60
industrial information about the United Kingdom:
correspondence
Cabinet Official Committee on civil Defence: public
information regarding the preparation and coordination
of official Departmental announcements in the event of
an outbreak of war - Part A
INF 12/1329
1961
INF 12/1330
Cabinet Official Committee on civil Defence: public
information regarding the preparation and coordination
1961-62
of official Departmental announcements in the event of
an outbreak of war - Part B
INF 12/1331
Cabinet Official Committee on civil Defence: public
information regarding the preparation and coordination
1962-65
of official Departmental announcements in the event of
an outbreak of war - Part C
T 328/367
1969-70
Records created and inherited by HM Treasury: Survey
of public attitudes toward taxes
WO 141/22
1916
Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed
Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies:
Shooting of civilians by troops
WO 141/23
1916
Shooting of civilians by troops
WO 141/46
1920
Reprisals in Ireland
WO 141/93
1920-21 Rebellion in Ireland: historical record
WO 141/94
1922-23 Record of rebellion in Ireland in 1920/21
WO 310/166
1945-48
Ariano Polesire, Mesola, Italy: killing and ill treatment of
British airmen
WO 310/187
1946-47 CMF: war crimes policy; Greece
WO 310/199
1944-45 Montedinove, Italy: killing of British and Belgian PoWs
WO 325/112
1946
Myangmya: killing of four British airmen.