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The 1951 Refugee Convention
The 1951 Refugee Convention defined international obligations to refugees, but also exposed global tensions in a context of decolonisation and ongoing conflict.
Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Internal Histories
Catalogue reference: FCO 75
What's it about?
FCO 75
This series contains internal histories of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a few of the Foreign Office. The records cover a wide variety of topics where the FCO determined there was value to the department in creating an internal history...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 75
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Internal Histories
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Date (When the record was created)
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1972
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains internal histories of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a few of the Foreign Office. The records cover a wide variety of topics where the FCO determined there was value to the department in creating an internal history of events and the development of policy. The format of the histories has varied over time, and they do not form a distinct series.
Copies transferred to the PRO were held by the Records and Historical Department and its predecessors.
The preserved version is a printed copy.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 file(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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)
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1962
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Occasional accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Records selected by the FCO under PRO supervision under section 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations in particular instances. All internal histories have been selected for permanent preservation.
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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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Internal histories were written by departmental officials who had been closely involved in work on the topic concern, and so were generated by staff from many different parts of the organisation.
Where given, the 'former reference' details related to the registered file which contains the history.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15602/
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