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Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Library: Confidential Pamphlets
Catalogue reference: CO 1073
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CO 1073
This series contains pamphlets created in the British Colonies. This collection is made up of the Colonial Office Library print run copy of the pamphlets. They describe the day to day lives of the inhabitants and the administration of the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 1073
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Library: Confidential Pamphlets
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1890-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains pamphlets created in the British Colonies. This collection is made up of the Colonial Office Library print run copy of the pamphlets. They describe the day to day lives of the inhabitants and the administration of the infrastructure (eg road building) of the colony. Many of the volumes include photographs. Those that cover post-1945 consider the affect of the war on the colony and the way forward.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Colonial Office, Librarian, 1854-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 433 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2017 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
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Colonial Office up to 1966; Foreign Office and then Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from 1966 onwards.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Further accruals are anticipated.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index to the pamphlets will be found within CO 1073/1
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15414495/
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