Post Office: Irish Minutes: Volumes
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0813 POST 36 Series |
Held at | : British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/ › |
Full title | : Post Office: Irish Minutes: Volumes |
Date(s) | : 1831-1920 |
Level of description | : Series |
Extent | : 216 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : No further information available |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Up until 1830, the Irish mail service did not come under the control of the British Post Office and was overseen by its own Postmaster General. In 1831 it was re-united with Great Britain's postal service and ceased to have its own Postmaster General. Under this new arrangement an Irish secretary was appointed to supervise Ireland's postal services and reported directly to the Postmaster General in London.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
This series consists of volumes containing a précis of, or reference to, every minute submitted by the Post Office Secretaries, of England and Ireland, to the Postmaster General in London, in relation to all aspects of postal operations and administration within the Irish postal service.
Much of the actual paperwork referred to in these volumes can be found in the accompanying class POST 31 (Irish Minute Papers). For further details of how this class relates to the other report and minute classes, see the following section 'Related Material'.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
In date order within series.
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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Allied Materials
Related material:
GENERAL GUIDE TO REPORTS AND MINUTES:
POST 36 is one of several POST classes that contain reports and minutes that have been generated at Headquarters level, usually for the purpose of bringing a variety of Post Office matters to the attention of the Postmaster General. Records can relate to people, places or subjects. The various POST classes that hold these records cover the years 1790-1973. The reason there are numerous classes for such records is that organisational changes have occurred within the Post Office through the decades and different and sometimes overlapping systems have been put in place for such record keeping. For a fuller understanding of central records and how the POST classes that they can be found in relate to each other, readers are advised to consult the 'Guide to Reports and Minutes', which includes a timeline that illustrates what periods and subjects are covered by the various POST classes and how they relate to each other. This can be viewed in the BPMA search room or online. For now, here are two pointers.
1. As a rule of thumb, there are two POST classes for each run of records. One class contains the full paperwork for each case ('papers') and the other class is likely to contain an index or series of précis to this material ('volumes'). This means that the indexes of a 'volume' class will often list the material in the corresponding 'papers' class by subject, name, or place.
2. There are a number of POST classes that address issues such as Packet Service minutes, Scottish minutes, Irish minutes and miscellaneous matters. However, the principal classes likely to address central issues of general importance for England and Wales are:
1790 - 1840: POST 40 (POST 42 volumes)
1840 - 1921: POST 30 (POST 35 volumes)
1921 - 1955: POST 33 (POST 38 volumes)
(1941 - 1948): POST 102 (overlaps with POST 33)
1955 - 1973: POST 122 (also POST 35 volumes)
POST CLASSES SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO POST 36:
POST 31 (Irish Minute Papers) contains many of the actual papers that POST 36 refers to.
For records relating to Ireland and Irish matters for the period before 1831 see the following POST classes:
POST 42 and POST 40 (Postmaster General's Reports): 1790-1831
POST 35 and POST 30 (England and Wales Minutes): 1792-1801
POST 41 and POST 39 (Packet Service Reports): 1807-1831
POST 34 and POST 29 (Packet Service Minutes): 1811-1831
In 1921, a significant change occurred to the way all reports and minutes were recorded. Before this time, reports and minutes for England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and the Packet Service had been recorded separately. From 1921, they were all (including POST 36 and POST 31) amalgamated into POST 38 (Postmaster General's Minute Volumes) and POST 33 (Postmaster General's Minute Papers).
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Entry checked by Barbara Ball
Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General Internation 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:
Entry checked June 2011
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