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Series
Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Hong Kong Departments: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 40
What's it about?
FCO 40
This series contains records of the Hong Kong and West Indian Department 'C' of the Commonwealth Office created between January 1967 and late 1967 dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Hong Kong and British Honduras, and thereafter...
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 40
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Hong Kong Departments: Registered Files, Hong Kong, British Honduras, British Indian Ocean Territories and the Seychelles (HW and HK Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Hong Kong and West Indian Department 'C' of the Commonwealth Office created between January 1967 and late 1967 dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Hong Kong and British Honduras, and thereafter records of the Hong Kong Department of the Commonwealth Office and, from October 1968, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, dealing with Hong Kong only.
Some records produced by West Indian Department 'B' after it assumed responsibility for British Honduras are also in this series. From May 1972 the records are those of the Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, dealing with Hong Kong, the Seychelles and the British Indian Ocean Territory.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference within each accession
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Commonwealth Office files on British Honduras see CO 1031
For earlier Commonwealth Office files on Hong Kong see CO 1030
For earlier files on the Seychelles and BIOT see FCO 83
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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)
- HW and HK 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, Far Eastern Department, 1968-1994
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hong Kong and General Department, 1978-1983
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, 1972-1976
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hong Kong Department, 1968-1972
- Foreign Office, Far Eastern Department, 1906-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4598 paper files and digital records
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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 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Americas
- Africa
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series runs from 1967
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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 department was established when the Commonwealth Office was created in August 1966 as part of the Dependent Territories Division (the former Colonial Office departments), and was responsible for UK and Commonwealth relations with Hong Kong and British Honduras. Responsibility for relations with British Honduras passed to West Indian Department 'B' in late 1967, from which time the department became the Hong Kong Department.
From October 1968 the Hong Kong Department continued in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but using a new HK file series. In May 1972 the department was renamed the Hong Kong and Indian Ocean Department, with responsibility for relations with the Seychelles and the British Indian Ocean Territories being added, but still used the HK file series.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15105/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
331,892 records
Within the department: FCO
Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors
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Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Hong Kong Departments: Registered Files, Hong Kong, British Honduras, British Indian Ocean Territories and the Seychelles (HW and HK Series)
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