Series
Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Overseas)
Catalogue reference: POST 83
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Overseas) dating from 1819-1934.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 83
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Overseas)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1819-1934
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of a collection of licences, concessions, agreements, treaties, conventions and conferences, correspondence and memoranda between foreign governments negotiating landing rights, maintenance and operation of submarine cable telegraphs; ocean survey reports as well as other reports by officers in the General Post Office and committee reports.
Please see BT Archives online catalogue and The Postal Museum's online catalogue for some descriptions of individual records within this series.
The records in this series reflect a former arrangement and have since been re-catalogued. Please contact BT Archives https://www.bt.com/about/bt/our-history/bt-archives for more information.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
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For records on telegraphs, private companies see POST 81
Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue and BT Archives online catalogue.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Note that these records have been rearranged to fit the scheme of arrangement used at BT Archives. The records have been incorporated within TCB and the POST 83 reference numbers are now obsolete.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- BT Group Archives
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 104 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- Custodial history: This series of records, along with other Post Office telecommunications records, was transferred from the Post Office Archives to BT Archives in 1991.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The first transmission of telegraphic communication to overseas routes was by submarine cable from Dover to Calais in 1850. Private telegraph companies pioneered this work, with the Post Office becoming increasingly involved in the management of overseas cables following its takeover of the UK domestic telegraph network in 1870. Private companies remained active in the international arena, particularly in providing telegraph services to places outside Europe. Many of these companies merged in 1929 to form Cable & Wireless Ltd.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/365ed89f-21bc-4f71-ac8a-163f9cc2a0f6/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at BT Group Archives
Within the fonds: POST 81-88
Early development of telegraph and telephone services in the UK
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Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Overseas)