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CABINET PAPERS

Complete Classes from the CAB & PREM Series in the Public Record Office

Series Three: CAB 128 & CAB 129 Cabinet Conclusions & Cabinet Memoranda,
1945 and following

Part 1: Attlee Government, August 1945-October 1951 (CAB 128/ 1-13 & CAB 129/ 1-20)

Part 2: The Attlee Government, August 1945-October 1951 (CAB 128/ 14-22 & CAB 129/ 21-47)

CAB 128 GENERAL CHARACTER

CAB 128 contains the minutes, or ‘Conclusions’, of the Cabinet Meetings taken down by the Secretary of the Cabinet; as such they provide an excellent record as to the main concerns and priorities of the government.

For every meeting held by the Cabinet there is a title page giving the time, place and date of the meeting, a list of who attended and a reference number.  The next page is usually an agenda listing the topics covered in the meeting, although this information is occasionally put on the title page if there are only one or two items to be covered.  The minutes themselves then follow, with each item discussed at the meeting being noted in a brief summary along with a record of any decisions reached.

Each meeting is assigned a unique reference number which can be found at the beginning of each title page.  The first two letters, CM, identify the papers as belonging to the Cabinet Conclusions series of 1945 to 1951, the number in brackets refers to the specific year, and the following number indicates the meeting.  Thus CM (45) 20 would be the memoranda of the twentieth Cabinet Meeting held in 1945.

The Detailed Listing for CAB 128 provided in this guide gives the date and reference number for each meeting, as well as an indication of the number of items discussed and the Public Record Office piece number.  The Public Record Office piece number refers to the bound volume in which the minutes are contained and is given as a heading with the range of material held within that volume; ie CAB 128/5 Cabinet Conclusions 1946 (Meetings 1-15).  This is followed by a chronological list of the meetings with their original Cabinet reference numbers, the number of items discussed, as well as the date of the meeting.

For example:  CM (46) 11:  1-8 4 February 1946, refers to the Cabinet Minutes of the eleventh meeting in 1946, held on the 4 of February, in which items 1 to 8 were discussed.

As well as the normal Conclusions, CAB 128 also contains a number of ‘Confidential Annexes’ and ‘No Circulation Records’.  These are memoranda regarded as being particularly sensitive and not suitable for general distribution and so kept separate from the normal run of Cabinet Conclusions (see CAB 128/3 & 4 for example).  These are listed in the Detailed Listing under their appropriate piece numbers, and include a title referring to their contents.

An Index of the main subjects discussed in the Cabinet Conclusions is also included for each year and this is reproduced on film.  See also CAB 128/ 22 where all the indexes are grouped together.

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