IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS 777
Held at: Royal Society
Title: British Empire Exhibition Committee
Date(s): 1925
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: Unknown
Name of creator(s): British Empire Exhibition Committee | Royal Society
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Administrative/Biographical history:
The British Empire Exhibition was an exhibition held at Wembley, Middlesex in 1924 and 1925. Its official aim was " to stimulate trade, to strengthen the bonds that bind the Mother Country to her Sister States and Daughter Nations, to bring all into closer touch, the one with the other, to enable all who owe allegiance to the British Flag to meet on common ground, and to learn to know each other. It is a family party, to which every member of the Empire is invited, and at which every part of the Empire is represented". It was opened by King George V 23 April 1924. Of the 58 members of the British Empire only Gambia and Gibraltar did not take part.
CONTENT
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Letters concerning the British Empire Exhibition Committee covering the period January to December 1925.
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Language/scripts of material: English
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.