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Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors
Catalogue reference: Division within OS
What's it about?
Division within OS
Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors are in OS 46. Ordnance Survey International Library: International Boundary Archive, OS 62
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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Division within OS
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors
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Date (When the record was created)
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1946-1993
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors are in OS 46.
Ordnance Survey International Library: International Boundary Archive, OS 62
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Colonial Office, Directorate of Colonial Surveys, 1946-1957
- Colonial Office, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1957-1961
- Department of Technical Co-operation, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1961-1964
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Overseas Development Administration, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1970-1985
- Ministry of Overseas Development, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1964-1970
- Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey International, 1991-1991
- Ordnance Survey, Overseas Surveys Directorate, 1985-1991
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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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 Directorate of Colonial Surveys was formed in March 1946 following approval by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in August 1945 for the formation of a central organisation for carrying out geodetic and topographical surveys in the Colonial Empire. Its parent department was the Colonial Office with finance provided under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts. The name of the Directorate and responsibility for it changed on numerous occasions and finally its name changed in 1991 to Ordnance Survey International, reflecting increasing independence of work for the Overseas Development Agency and a significantly more commercial approach.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1064/
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