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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Research Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 51
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FCO 51
This series consists of registered files of the Research Department of the joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office Research Department and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after October 1968. The files relate to general...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 51
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Research Department: Registered Files (LR and RR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Research Department of the joint Foreign Office/Commonwealth Office Research Department and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after October 1968. The files relate to general research and political intelligence duties. The Department collated information into the format required by the client departments, and as such its files often contain useful historical summaries relating to particular events or locations.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier records of the Research Department see FO 370
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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)
- LR and RR file series
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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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- Commonwealth Office, Research Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Research Department, 1968-1990
- Foreign Office, Research Department, 1959-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 513 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1998 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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- Topics
- International
- Research
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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 Research Department handled general research and political intelligence work for other departments in the Foreign and the Commonwealth Offices.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14932/
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