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Series
British Council: Registered Files, Rhodesia later Zimbabwe
Catalogue reference: BW 161
What's it about?
BW 161
Registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Rhodesia.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 161
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Rhodesia later Zimbabwe
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1964-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Rhodesia.
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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)
- RHO 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)
- British Council, 1936-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 25 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 2000 British Council
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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
- Africa
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1950
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The selection of files in this series was carried out by retired former British Council staff acting under PRO supervision.
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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 British Council had an office in Zimbabwe from 1980, but cultural relations with Zimbabwe were previously maintained from the British Council offices in Northern Rhodesia, later Zambia and Nyasaland, later Malawi.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15070/
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