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Series
Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Gibraltar and South Atlantic...
Catalogue reference: FCO 42
What's it about?
FCO 42
This series contains records of the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands and their dependencies, Ascension Island, St Helena and Tristan...
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 42
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department: Registered Files (Y and HG Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands and their dependencies, Ascension Island, St Helena and Tristan da Cunha, and matters relating to Antarctica.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Colonial Office and Commonwealth files on Gibraltar see: CO 926
For earlier Colonial Office and Commonwealth files on the Falkland Islands and dependencies and the Atlantic Islands see CO 1024 DO 220
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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)
- HG and Y 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, Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department, 1966-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department,, 1968-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 505 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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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)
- 1967-1970
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing annually
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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 Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department was formed as part of the Dependent Territories Division (i.e. former Colonial Office) of the Commonwealth Office following its creation in August 1966, and handled all UK and Commonwealth interests in Antarctica, the South Atlantic islands and Gibraltar.
In October 1968, when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was formed, the department continued largely unchanged, (although responsibility for the external relations of Gibraltar passed to the Western European Department). The department remained in being until 1971 when it was absorbed into a new Atlantic and Indian Ocean Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15217/
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Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department: Registered Files (Y and HG Series)
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