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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Economists Department: Registered Files (MM Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 74
What's it about?
FCO 74
This series comprises records of the Economists Department. They cover any area of international economic affairs, but especially UK relations with other states, where the economists were asked to provide detailed advice and guidance to other...
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 74
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Economists Department: Registered Files (MM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1970-1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises records of the Economists Department. They cover any area of international economic affairs, but especially UK relations with other states, where the economists were asked to provide detailed advice and guidance to other departments in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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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)
- MM 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, Economists Department, 1968-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran 1968-1974
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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)
- Records selected by the FCO under PRO supervision under section 2.2.1.2 and 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the conduct of the UK's external economic relations. No records were selected from the 1968-1969 file cycle.
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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 various economic advisers in the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office were grouped into an Economists Department when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was formed in October 1968. Their role was to provide specialist advice to all departments on economic matters.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15595/
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