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Series
Colonial Office and successors: Annual Reports
Catalogue reference: CO 1071
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CO 1071
From 1837 colonial governors accompanied their annual returns (known as 'blue books' giving statistical, administrative and other information) with 'reports exhibiting generally the past and present state of the Colony and its prospects, in every...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 1071
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and successors: Annual Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1845-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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From 1837 colonial governors accompanied their annual returns (known as 'blue books' giving statistical, administrative and other information) with 'reports exhibiting generally the past and present state of the Colony and its prospects, in every political Branch'.
They were described as 'the report on the blue book' but gradually becoming known as annual reports. References to the transmission of the reports can be found in governors' despatches and copies are occasionally included. However more often they were detached and placed in the Colonial Office Library.
Some were printed by Parliament, but the extent is unknown and the practice came to an end in the 1920s.
Pieces 1-415 contain reports on individual countries and states. Pieces 416-445 are more general - each volume contains reports on many different territories.
Many volumes contain maps and photographs.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Alphabetically and then chronologically within each colony.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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The Miscellanea series for each colony usually holds the 'blue books'
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Colonial Office, 1854-1966
- Commonwealth Office, 1966-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
- War and Colonial Department, 1801-1854
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 445 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2014 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Until 2007 were held in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, King Charles Street.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accurals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11669495/
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