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Series
Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pacific and Indian Ocean...
Catalogue reference: FCO 32
What's it about?
FCO 32
This series consists of records of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Department of the Commonwealth Office (January 1967 to October 1968) and of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (October 1968 to January 1971), dealing with UK and Commonwealth...
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 32
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pacific and Indian Ocean Department and Pacific Dependent Territories Department: Registered Files (Q and HP Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1950-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of records of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Department of the Commonwealth Office (January 1967 to October 1968) and of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (October 1968 to January 1971), dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the South Pacific Commission and the West Pacific High Commission, Fiji, Tonga, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the New Hebrides, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Pitcairn, and the British Indian Ocean Territory.
From February 1971 the records are those produced by the Pacific Dependent Territories Department dealing with the South Pacific Commission and the West Pacific High Commission, the New Hebrides, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and Pitcairn.
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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 file cycles.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Colonial Office files dealing with relations with this area see CO 1036
For records of the South Pacific Department see FCO 107
For earlier Commonwealth Relations and Commonwealth Office files of the Pacific and Indian Ocean Department see DO 199
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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)
- HP and Q 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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- Commonwealth Office, Pacific and Indian Ocean Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Pacific and Indian Ocean Department, 1968-1971
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Pacific Dependent Territories Department, 1971-1978
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1541 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran from 1967
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accurals are anticipated
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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 Pacific and Indian Ocean Department of the Commonwealth Office continued with essentially unaltered responsibilities after October 1967 in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In January 1971, a reorganisation took place to more evenly distribute work between departments. Responsibility for Mauritius, the Seychelles and the British Indian Ocean Territory passed to a new Atlantic and Indian Ocean Department, and the department dealing with UK dependencies in the Pacific was renamed the Pacific Dependent Territories Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15114/
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Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Pacific and Indian Ocean Department and Pacific Dependent Territories Department: Registered Files (Q and HP Series)
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