British Council central records and publications

Records of the British Council relating to central decision making and administration, including publications.

Papers of the secretariat and executive committee are in BW 68, BW 69, BW 75, BW 76, BW 77, BW 82, BW 109 and BW 110

Annual reports are in BW 151

Records of most of the council departments are in the two main series of registered files, BW 1 and BW 2. In addition, BW 4 contains files on films.

Correspondence of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas and its advisory body the Technical Education and Training Organisation for Overseas Countries in BW 90 and BW 91 respectively.

BW 83 contains papers on tours by specialists. Scholarship files are in BW 84

Articles produced by the Feature Articles Service for overseas publication are in BW 131. Scripts of recorded sound broadcasts commissioned by the Recorded Sound Department of the British Council for use outside of the United Kingdom are in BW 136

The British Council staff newsletter, The Monthly Review, is in BW 119, with New Horizons, the newsletter of the British Council Retirement Association, in BW 115. Records of the proceedings of the Joint Staff Committee of the British Council are in BW 134. Registered Files, Regional Series are in BW 209.

• British Committee for Relations with Other Countries, Governing Board, 1934-1935
• British Council for Relations with Other Countries, Executive Committee, 1935-1936
• British Council, Executive Committee, 1936-1936
• British Council, Secretariat, 1936-1936

Topics

International

Litigation

Pay and pensions

Official publications

Education

The British Council's present administrative structure reflects a former division into regional and functional departments which is no longer formally maintained. Overseas representation, under the overall supervision of the director general, is the work of three divisions which are defined geographically. An Educational Contracts Department provides paid educational services to foreign governments and other organisations overseas. The Home Division deals with the council's operations in Great Britain, including services to students and other visitors from abroad. The other functional divisions of the council deal respectively with the arts, books, education and science, and English language teaching.

Each division is headed by a controller, with directors for particular functions or areas. The divisions are responsible either to the deputy director general or to one of two assistant directors generals. There are in addition a medical and a law department, under a medical director and a legal adviser respectively, each answerable to an assistant director general.