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Series
Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, Commonwealth...
Catalogue reference: FCO 38
What's it about?
FCO 38
This series consists of the records of the West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office, January 1967-October 1968, dealing with UK and Commonwealth political and economic relations with The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra...
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 38
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, Commonwealth Africa, General African Affairs and the Organisation of African Unity (T Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1966-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of the records of the West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office, January 1967-October 1968, dealing with UK and Commonwealth political and economic relations with The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, Commonwealth relations with the Organisation of African Unity and with foreign states in north, west and equatorial Africa, and general topics relating to Africa which were of concern to the Commonwealth.
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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
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier files produced by the West and General Africa Department see: DO 195 DO 216
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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)
- T 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)
- Commonwealth Office, West and General Africa Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 322 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 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
- Africa
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected.
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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 West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office continued the work performed by the department of the same name in the Commonwealth Relations Office, until the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was formed in October 1968. Thereafter, responsibility for relations with Commonwealth West Africa passed to the West African Department, and relations with the Organisation for African Unity became the responsibility of the East African Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15216/
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Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, Commonwealth Africa, General African Affairs and the Organisation of African Unity (T Series)
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