King's College London

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

Nuclear History Database

Records held at the Public Record Office Kew

• UK Atomic Energy Authority
• Admiralty
• Air Ministry
• Aviation Ministry
• Cabinet Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Department of Energy
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Foreign Office
• Home Office
• Prime Minister's Office
• War Office

AB1 1939-1958

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and related bodies; Directorate of Tube Alloys and related bodies; correspondence and papers

AB2 1941-1946

Anglo-Canadian Joint Project; reports

AB3 1939-1948

Ministry of Supply and predecessors: Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford: atomic energy research; correspondence and papers

AB4 1939-1945

World War II; British reports

AB5 1942-1946

Chalk River Project engineering drawings

AB6 1944-1981

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; correspondence and papers

AB8 1940-1971

Northern Groups; correspondence and papers

AB12 1945-1973

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; committee documents

AB15 1940-1971

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell; reports and memoranda

AB16 1939-1976 [Section 1-241] [242-762] [764-1259] [1260-1669] [1670-2161] [2162-2675] [2676-3120] [3121-3563] [3564-3994] [3995-4580]

Ministry of Supply and UK Atomic Energy Authority: Atomic Energy Division and London Office files

AB17 1954-1981

London Office; miscellaneous Atomic Energy Authority publications

AB19 1946-1957

Northern Groups: senior management; Hinton papers

AB22 1954-1994

Annual reports and summaries

AB24 1955-1971

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: research and development; correspondence and papers

AB27 1943-1961

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: senior management; Sir John Cockcroft papers

AB29 1959-1970

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith; reports and memoranda

AB33 1957-1976

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: senior management; correspondence and papers

AB34 1955-1980

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: general administration; correspondence and papers

AB35 1957-1973

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: research and development; correspondence

AB36 1949-1970

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: scientific and technical administration; correspondence and papers

AB37 1957-1976

Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith: Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor; correspondence and papers

AB38 1946-1972

Northern Groups: senior management; correspondence and private papers

AB57 1952-1969

Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell: scientific and technical administration; correspondence and papers

AB64 1950-1983

Northern Groups: research and development; correspondence and papers

AB65 1958-1976

Northern Groups: scientific and technical administration; correspondence and papers

AB73 1958-1967

Culham Laboratory; committee documents

ADM1 1660-1976

Admiralty and Secretarial papers

ADM116 1920-1973

Admiralty and Secretarial cases

ADM204 1920-1973

Admiralty Research Laboratory; reports and notes

ADM205 1937-1965

First Sea Lord papers

ADM239 1909-1985

Confidential Books series

ADM296 1955-1956

Office of the MOSAIC Operational Commander; records

AIR2 1887-1985

Registered files

AIR2, Code B sequence 1936-1956

Miscellaneous papers

AVIA48 1944-1962

Rocket Propulsion Establishment files

AVIA54 1930-1970

Ministry of Supply files, series 7

AVIA65 1919-1979

Ministry of Supply and successor departments; branch registry files

CAB21 1916-1965

Registered files

CAB65 1939-1945

War Cabinet minutes

CAB66 1939-1945

War Cabinet memoranda

CAB79 1939-1946

Chiefs of Staff minutes

CAB80 1939-1946

War Cabinet Chiefs of Staff Committee memoranda

CAB82 1939-1946

Chiefs of Staff Committee

CAB88 1942-1949

War Cabinet Combined Chiefs of Staff Committees and Subcommittees

CAB90 1940-1946

War Cabinet Scientific Advisory Committee

CAB121 1939-1954

Special Secret Information Centre files

CAB126 1941-1955

Atomic energy files

CAB127 1922-1961

Private collections: ministers and officials

CAB128 1945-1964

Cabinet minutes

CAB129 1945-1964

Cabinet memoranda

CAB130 1945-1970

Ad hoc committees: general and miscellaneous series

CAB131 1946-1963

Defence Committee

CAB132 1945-1968

Lord President's Committee and Subcommittee

CAB134 1945-1974

Cabinet committees: general series

DEFE8 1947-1959

Chiefs of Staff committees and subcommittees

DEFE9 1947-1952

Tizard papers

DEFE10 1940-1968

Major committees; minutes and papers

DEFE11 1946-1973

Chiefs of Staff Committee; registered files

DEFE13 1950-1973

Private Office papers

DEFE16 1947-1985

Australian Royal Commission into United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Testing in Australia; proceedings and evidence

DEFE25 1958-1968

Chief of Defence Staff; registered files

DEFE31 1963-1979

Defence Intelligence Staff; registered files

DEFE32 1958-1968

Chiefs of Staff Committee; Secretary's standard files

DEFE41 1945-1958

Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence: Scientific and Technical Intelligence Branch and Overseas Liaison Branch; registered files

EG1 1948-1959

Atomic energy papers

FCO1 1950-1979 [Section 1/1-1/9]; [section 1/10-1/21]

Australian Royal Commission into United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Testing in Australia; photocopies of documents made available to the Commission by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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FO93 1695-1993

Protocols of Treaties

FO115 1791-1956

Embassy and consular archives, USA; correspondence

FO800 1824-1965

Private collections: ministers and officials; various

FO949 1907-1983

Multilateral treaties

FO954 1935-1946

Avon papers

FO972 1978-1992

Foreign policy documents

FO973 1978-1992

Background briefs

HO186 1931-1957

Ministry of Home Security: air raid precautions (ARP GEN); registered files

HO225 1948-1996

Scientific Advisers' Branch; reports (Civil Defence/Scientific Advisers' Branch Series)

HO226 1952-1969

Scientific Advisers' Branch; reports (R and M Series)

HO227 1951-1973

Scientific Advisers' Branch and successors; reports (Scientific Advisers/Police Research Series)

HO228 1948-1966

Scientific Advisers' Branch; reports (Z Series)

HO229 1961-1977

Fission Fragments: Journal of Home Office Scientific Advisers' Branch and successors

HO312 1945-1969

Civil Defence circulars

HO353 1947-1973

Police, war emergency matters (WEM Symbol series) files

HO357 1948-1955

Civil Defence Joint Planning Staff papers

PREM3 1940-1945

Operational papers

PREM8 1945-1951

Correspondence and papers

PREM10 1941-1945

Private office diaries of wartime visits by Prime Minister

PREM11 1951-1964

Correspondence and papers

WO106 1837-1961

Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence

WO216 1935-1964

Chief of the (Imperial) General Staff papers

WO320 1956-1957

Directorate of Weapons and Development

WO321 1932-1967

Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Christchurch and predecessor establishments; registered files