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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East...
Catalogue reference: FCO 28
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FCO 28
This series contains the records of the Northern Department of the Foreign Office and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Eastern European and Soviet Department, dealing with UK political and economic relations with the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Northern Department and East European and Soviet Department (and succeeding departments): Registered Files (N, EN and ES Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1991
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the records of the Northern Department of the Foreign Office and its successor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Eastern European and Soviet Department, dealing with UK political and economic relations with the Soviet Union and the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Albania and Yugoslavia.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Former file reference order within file cycle
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For East-West Contact Department files see FCO 34
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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)
- EN, ES and N 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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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, East European and Soviet Department, 1968-1983
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Eastern European Department, 1984-1992
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Soviet Department, 1984-1991
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 11245 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
- Europe and Russia
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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 Northern Department, despite its name, had only dealt with relations with the Soviet Bloc during the later years of its existence in the Foreign Office, responsibility for Scandinavia having passed to another department. The name of the department was changed, to the Eastern European and Soviet Department, upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, but its functions were unaltered. Relations with East Germany and Berlin were handled by the Western Department and its successor, the Western European Department. Cultural relations with eastern European states were handled by the East-West Contacts Department. In 1984, The Department split into the Eastern European Department and the Soviet Department. In 1992 the department merged back as the Eastern Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15091/
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