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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Public Record Office
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The national archive of England and Wales, gathered together under this name in 1838 and placed then under the care of the *Master of the Rolls. The earlier documents (going back to the *Domesday Book of 1087) are kept in the 19C Tudor-style building which was created for them in Chancery Lane; more recent records are in a modern custom-built repository at Kew, where government documents are subject to the *thirty-year rule. The equivalent archive for Scotland is the *Scottish Record Office.
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