Series
Treasury: Overseas Finance Division: Registered Files (OF and 2OF Series)
Catalogue reference: T 236
What's it about?
T 236
Files of the Overseas Finance (OF) Division of the Treasury. They deal mainly with financial relations and negotiations with overseas countries and international bodies and agencies, including the European Free Trade Association, European...
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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T 236
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Overseas Finance Division: Registered Files (OF and 2OF Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Overseas Finance (OF) Division of the Treasury. They deal mainly with financial relations and negotiations with overseas countries and international bodies and agencies, including the European Free Trade Association, European Economic Community, International Monetary Fund, Dollar Export Council, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. There is a wide variety of material relating to foreign exchange, balance of payments, sterling balances, trade policy, exports, and the Marshall Plan.
Also includes files of the F series which were reregistered in the OF series in 1948.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological within original subject classification (see Treasury Registration Systems)
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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OF and 2OF file series
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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)
- Treasury, Overseas Finance Division, 1938-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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6793 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1976 Treasury
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1948 to 1960
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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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 Overseas Finance (OF) Division was set up in 1938. In 1948 the Imperial and Foreign (IF) Division took over responsibilities for United Nations questions. In 1950 the Exchange Control (EC) Division took over responsibility for 'Cheap Sterling' and in 1955 it took over all work on imports (except those financed under the Mutual Security Programme), and commodity and tariff questions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13973/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Within the department: T
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Treasury: Overseas Finance Division: Registered Files (OF and 2OF Series)