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Series
Overseas Development Administration: South Atlantic Department: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: OD 133
What's it about?
OD 133
The series contains records on a wide range of subjects including aid and development policy and resulting development projects in the UK dependencies of Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The series also contains...
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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OD 133
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration: South Atlantic Department: Registered Files (SAD, ASJ, ASK series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1985-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains records on a wide range of subjects including aid and development policy and resulting development projects in the UK dependencies of Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The series also contains records relating to development and aid policy for Gibraltar.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged in file reference order for the transfer.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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In 1990 the Department became Caribbean and Atlantic Department and pieces from 1989/91 file period can be found within OD 138
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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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SAD, ASJ, ASK
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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)
- Overseas Development Administration, 1979-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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31 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2016-2017 Department for International Development
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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The paper file series started in 1985 and ended in 1988.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The series was first reviewed in 2011 and the resulting files selected for second review contain mainly aid policy and the development of aid projects in the UK dependencies in the South Atlantic region.
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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 South Atlantic Department was created in 1985 and was responsible for development and aid policy for the UK dependencies of Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. In 1986 the department took over responsibility for development and aid policy for Gibraltar and became South Atlantic and Gibraltar Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14584251/
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