Record revealed
The 1951 Refugee Convention
The 1951 Refugee Convention defined international obligations to refugees, but also exposed global tensions in a context of decolonisation and ongoing conflict.
Series
Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department:...
Catalogue reference: FCO 48
What's it about?
FCO 48
This series consists of registered files of the Commonwealth Office Aid Department (January to June 1967) and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department (June 1967 to October 1968) relating to financial and development policy.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
-
FCO 48
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series)
-
Date (When the record was created)
-
1966-1968
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series consists of registered files of the Commonwealth Office Aid Department (January to June 1967) and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department (June 1967 to October 1968) relating to financial and development policy.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
-
Arrangement
Former file reference
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
-
FP file series
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
-
Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
-
English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
-
- Commonwealth Office, Aid Department, 1966-1967
- Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, 1967-1968
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
-
205 file(s)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
-
Subject to 30 year closure
-
Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
-
From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
-
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))
-
- Topics
- International
- Aid and development
-
Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
-
1967-1968
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
The Commonwealth Office's Aid Department, and its successor the Commonwealth Financial Policy Department, dealt with financial policy and aid, and development policy in the Commonwealth. The department was abolished upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in October 1968, at which point responsibility for Commonwealth aid and development policy passed to a new Financial Policy and Aid Department in the FCO.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15107/
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
You are currently looking at the series: FCO 48
Commonwealth Office: Aid Department and Commonwealth Financial Policy Department: Registered Files (FP Series)
You may be interested in
-
-
Record revealed
Copy of Henry VIII's diplomatic assurances to João III of Portugal
Recently rediscovered, this letter offers new archival evidence into Britain and Portugal's shared history. -
Record revealed
A letter from Gandhi's 'errand boy'
This letter is an example of those in our collection detailing Indian and Pakistani Independence, but from a lesser-known voice, Sudhir Ghosh.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.