SEX AND GENDER

Manuscript Sources from the Public Record Office

Parts 1 and 2: Empire and Suffrage

Technical Note

Our microform publications are prepared and produced in accordance with recommended and established guide-lines for the production of microform of superior quality. These conform to the recommendations of the standard guides to good microforming and micropublishing practice.

Attention should be drawn to the nature of the original material. The material consists of AR, CAB, CO, DO, FO, HO, LAB, LO, PREM, T and a few WO files. Most of these consist of folders of loose papers, reports, minutes and other documents. Although the original material is in very good condition, records are written on many different types of paper. The thickness and colour of the paper varies from file to file and sometimes from document to document. Coupled with the variety of inks, pens or pencils used, this has created a few problems in terms of contrast and clarity of text, especially in the few instances where the original is on very dark paper. A few items consist of carbon copies or comprise material on very thin paper, which has created problems of show-through, rendering the original documents difficult to read. A few items are bound within volumes. These are often quite tightly bound. This can lead to some curvature or a small amount of text loss in the central gutter of each opening. Every effort has been made to minimise these difficulties and some openings are microfilmed more than once in an attempt to bring out all the features of the original. Nevertheless these original characteristics present difficulties of image and contrast which stringent tests and variations of density cannot entirely overcome.

The most responsible care has been exercised in the filming of this unique collection and every effort has been made to ensure that this microform publication meets the standards established by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and prevailing European standards.

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