Foreign Office, Western Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Western European...

FCO 33

1946-1995

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).

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.

R and WR file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
• Foreign Office, Western Department, 1945-1968

13917 file(s)

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Europe and Russia

Ireland

Series is accruing annually

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.