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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Defence Department and successors:...
Catalogue reference: FCO 46
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FCO 46
This series contains records of the Defence Department of the Foreign Office, dealing with international defence, training and supply matters and some non-defence international collaborative projects (particularly the Anglo-French Concorde...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 46
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Defence Department and successors: Registered Files (ZD, DP and DT Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1990
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Defence Department of the Foreign Office, dealing with international defence, training and supply matters and some non-defence international collaborative projects (particularly the Anglo-French Concorde project), and its successor departments in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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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 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)
- ZD, DP and DT 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, Defence Department, 1970-1990
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Defence Policy Department, 1968-1970
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Defence Training and Supply Department, 1968-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8098 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 1999 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
- Air transport
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1967-1990
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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 Defence Department handled overseas defence issues in the Foreign Office, including consideration of defence white papers, relations with the Ministry of Defence and the services Chiefs of Staff and attachés, and dealings with other states on collaborative defence and aerospace projects.
The department was wound up in October 1968, and merged with the Commonwealth Office Defence Department to form two new departments in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO): the Defence Policy Department and the Defence Training and Supply Department. In 1970 these were in turn merged to form the FCO Defence Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15106/
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