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Public Record Office

British  

noun

  1. an institution in which official records are stored and kept available for inspection by the public

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Key to the enterprise has been a book, “A Guide to the Records Deposited in the Public Record Office of Ireland,” published three years before the fire by the office’s head archivist, Herbert Wood.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

The detail is contained in previously confidential documents released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2019

His complaint has been revealed in previously confidential files released by the Public Record Office in Belfast.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2017

David Crook, the retired former assistant keeper of public records at the Public Record Office, tells me over tea one afternoon at his home in Grantham.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 14, 2010

Public Record Office, London, documents from, xv, 1, 133-137, 165-178, 180-187, 190-196, 200-218, 220-244, 275-276, 285-286, 312-313, 355-356, 573-580.

From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by J. Franklin (John Franklin) Jameson

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