February 2001
Recent Releases at the Public Record Office
PRO
reference
Date
Description
ADM
1/31023
1959 - 62
Admiralty: The nuclear deterrent
DO 121/77
1931 - 32
Dominions Office: Smuggling of arms into Ireland
DO 121/83
1940
Records of talks with Mr de Valera, Head of Eire
Government, and Mr Malcolm Macdonald
DO 121/85
1942 - 44
Secret reports on the situation in Ireland
FO
371/28566
1941
Foreign Office: Interview between Secretary of
State and representatives of Marshal Petain
FO
1030/336
1946 - 47
Control Commission for Germany: German
subversive activities
HO
144/18991
1918 - 34
Home Office: Capital Punishment: Attendance by
surgeons at executions for research purposes:
permission refused
HO
144/19044
1924
Capital Punishment: Memoranda on abolition
HO
144/19045
1925 - 34
Capital Punishment: Memoranda on abolition
HO
144/20619
1922 - 37
Warrants: Listening-in to and recording of
telephone conversations under written authority of
the Home Secretary.
HO
144/20626
1924 - 37
Capital Punishment: Executions: attendance of
press representatives etc.
HO
144/22308
1922 - 31
Capital Punishment: Exaggerated and distorted
press articles on scenes at the scaffold
HO
144/22510
1910 - 46
Capital Punishment: Executioners: articles in the
press by retired executioner; enactments of
gallows scene by retired executioner on theatre
stage and on fairgrounds
HW 23/807
1944
Government Communications Headquarters:
Government Cypher School: Far Eastern shipping
reports: Intelligence reports based partly on
decrypts of Japanese naval traffic and traffic
analysis
HW 23/808
1944
The purchase of German Enigma machines by the
Japanese navy
1944
Report describing the location, methods and
efficiency of the intercept sites of the Japanese
Naval Radio Intelligence units: the report was
passed by United States Navy to GC & CS
Bletchley Park
HW 40/2
1943 - 45
Security files on Allied World War II
communications: mainly decrypts of German
messages, but also liaison signals and policy
documents: Tito
HW 40/3
1944 - 45
Security files on Allied World War II
communications: Decrypts of cipher messages and
liaison messages: Tito
1971 - 75
Minister of Labour: Association of British Chick
Sexers, Huddersfield: employment of Japanese
and Korean chick sexers; complaints of unfair
competition and cheap labour; includes papers on
scarcity of chick sexers in poultry
LAB 115/4
1973 - 75
Race relations in employment: letter from J H
Galbraith dated 25 June 1973 to Regional
Controllers on major review of race relations and
improvement of policy measures; responses from
Regional Controllers
LAB 115/5
1973 - 78
Sikhs and wearing of turbans: exemptions from
legislation; correspondence with various parties
MEPO
3/2623
1936 - 38
Metropolitan Police: "Demonstrations" booklet for
guidance of police at disturbances
MEPO
3/2674
1940 - 46
Aliens: Albanian Royal family and staff
MEPO
3/2678
1941 - 45
Aliens: Luxemburg Royal Family and Government
and staff
MEPO
3/2754
1946 - 47
Black market activities in the British military zone in
Germany
MEPO
3/2761
1946 - 47
'Nakamura Treasure': looted by Japanese Army
Officer from East Indies government department:
recovery of part of the loot by Field Section Police
HW 23/809
LAB 109/6
in Batavia during march 1946.
MEPO
3/2764
1946
Alleged theft of books, the property of the late Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
MEPO
3/2766
1946 - 48
Trafficking of forged Bank of England notes by the
Nazis
PREM 8/794 1945 - 51
Prime Minister's Office: Operational
Correspondence and papers: Germany
WO
208/5272
War Office: The German Secret Service:
organization of the Abwehr, their activities,
operations and intelligence
1942
Selection of Treasury Documents
The majority of this selection of Treasury files would not normally be open
until 2002 but have been opened early to coincide with the thirtieth
anniversary of decimalisation. The list also includes some documents which
were opened on 1 January 2001.
PRO
reference
Date
Description
T 193/56
1970 - 71
The 6d. review of Board policy following change of
government
T 193/59
1971
Post D Day criticism of the ½ p coin
T 193/71
1968 - 71
Design for the Northern Ireland 2p coin
T 193/86
1968 - 71
Effect of decimalisation on price adjustment
T 193/108
1969 - 71
General review of things that could go wrong
T 193/109
1970 - 71
TV and radio reports
T 193/110
1971
TV and radio reports
T 193/111
1971
TV and radio reports
T 193/142
1969 - 71
Replies to letters of complaint about exclusion of
the 'Morning Star' from the publicity campaign
T 193/148
1971 - 72
Publicity expenditure
T 193/225
1967 - 71
Problems of machine conversion in the public
sector
T 193/240
1970 - 71
Effects of decimalisation in schools and on
teaching
T 193/304
1967 - 71
Simplification of fares structures
T 193/321
1970 - 71
J Walter Thompson - advertising copy for main
pre-D Day campaign
T 193/322
1970 - 71
J Walter Thompson - advertising copy for main
pre-D Day campaign
T 193/347
1967 - 71
Conversion of parking meters
T 193/348
1967 - 71
Problems of converting taxi-meters
T 193/387
1968 - 71
Benefits of decimalisation
T 193/409
1971
Weather on D Day
T 193/441
1970 - 71
Effect of decimalisation on school meal charges
T 315/126
1967 - 70
Implementation of the decision to introduce
decimal currency into the UK by 1971
T 315/127
1967 - 70
Decimalisation transition period
T 315/129
1968 - 70
Implementation of decimal currency into the UK by
1971 designs of decimal coins.
T 315/130
1963 - 70
Decimal currency: need for a half penny
equivalent
T 315/150
1966 - 70
Functions of the Decimal Currency Board
T 315/155
1969 - 70
Decimalisation in the public sector: posts and
telecommunications, process and charges
T 315/160
1967 - 71
Consideration of the postponement of
decimalisation
T 315/161
1970 - 71
Decimalisation transitional period
T 315/162
1970 - 71
Decimalisation transitional period
T 315/163
1967 - 71
Implementation of the decision to introduce
decimal currency by 1971: discontinuance of the
use of the term 'guinea'
T 315/164
1967 - 71
Issue of 5p and 10p coins, souvenir sets of
decimal coins and the release to the public of 50p
coins before October 1969 (Physical description:
includes plastic specimen coin wallet)
T 315/165
1967 - 71
The introduction of a 50p coin
T 315/169
1967 - 71
Decimal currency: adaption and conversion of coin
operated telephone boxes
T 315/170
1963 - 71
Introduction of a decimal currency system into the
UK: publicity (excluding Decimal Currency Board
and government department's publicity)
T 315/171
1970 - 71
Copies of Dear Decimalisation Officer circulars
T 315/172
1970 - 71
Replies to the Dear Decimalisation Officer (71)
Number 4, ending the change-over period for
decimalisation: views of government departments
T 315/174
1966 - 71
Position of Maundy Money after decimalisation
T 315/175
1968 - 71
Compensation to be paid to companies for
conversion of their office machines upon the
introduction of decimal currency
T 315/178
1970 - 71
Decimalisation in the public sector: pay,
allowances and deductions
T 315/179
1967 - 71
Closure of banks immediately before 'D Day' in
order to deal with the change over to decimal
currency in the UK
T 315/184
1971
Decimal Currency Board: publicity programme
expenditure