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Series
British Council: Registered Files, Formosa, later Taiwan
Catalogue reference: BW 163
What's it about?
BW 163
Registered files produced by the British Council in London detailing work undertaken remotely to try to promote cultural links between the United Kingdom and Nationalist China.
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 163
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Formosa, later Taiwan
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1954-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files produced by the British Council in London detailing work undertaken remotely to try to promote cultural links between the United Kingdom and Nationalist China.
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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)
- FOR and TWN file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- 2 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- Asia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional accruals
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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 has never had an office or representative in Taiwan.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15072/
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