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Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European...
Catalogue reference: FCO 33
What's it about?
FCO 33
This series contains records of the Western Department of the Foreign Office, (dealing with UK relations with Belgium, France (with Andorra and Monaco), Italy (with San Marino), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Vatican and West and East Germany,...
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 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European Department: Registered Files (R and WR Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Western Department of the Foreign Office, (dealing with UK relations with Belgium, France (with Andorra and Monaco), Italy (with San Marino), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Vatican and West and East Germany, between January 1967 and October 1968), and the Western European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (dealing with UK relations with the above plus the Scandinavian states, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland and Liechtenstein from October 1968 on).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.
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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)
- R and WR 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, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Western Department, 1945-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 13917 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing annually
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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 Western Department of the Foreign Office was expanded upon the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, absorbing functions concerning UK relations with Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein from the Foreign Office Central Department when it was abolished and with Ireland from the Commonwealth Office Atlantic Department. The Department was re-named the Western European Department. Responsibility for relations with Andorra passed to the Southern European Department in 1969, and for relations with Ireland to a new Republic of Ireland Department in 1972.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15094/
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Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European Department: Registered Files (R and WR Series)
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