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Series
Foreign Office: Consulate, Zürich: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 1113
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FO 1113
This series contains records detailing UK consular activities in Zurich, and relations with the Swiss authorities there.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1113
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate, Zürich: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1958-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records detailing UK consular activities in Zurich, and relations with the Swiss authorities there.
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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)
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Zürich, Switzerland, 1886-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 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 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
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional accruals can be expected.
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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 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations with Switzerland.
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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 UK consulate in Zurich was opened in about 1886.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15616/
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