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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Overseas Labour Adviser: Registered Files (LA Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 71
What's it about?
FCO 71
This series contains registered files of the Overseas Labour Adviser and his staff dealing with international labour questions.
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 71
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Overseas Labour Adviser: Registered Files (LA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1968-1983
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the Overseas Labour Adviser and his staff dealing with international labour questions.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier Foreign Office records on international labour questions see FCO 60
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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)
- LA 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)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Overseas Labour Adviser, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 53 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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From 2000 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
- Labour
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected at second review by FCO under PRO supervision, acquisition policy collection theme 2.2.1.3
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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 Overseas Labour Adviser provided advice to the Secretary of State and to other departments of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on international labour questions, such as the business of the International Labour Organization. Before the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, this function was located in the International and General Department of the Foreign Office, but thereafter the Adviser was independent of the Office's departmental structure.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15443/
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