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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives,...
Catalogue reference: DO 223
What's it about?
DO 223
Records detailing the work of the UK High Commission in Freetown, dealing with the conduct of UK relations with Sierra Leone, and consular activities.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DO 223
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Sierra Leone: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1961-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records detailing the work of the UK High Commission in Freetown, dealing with the conduct of UK relations with Sierra Leone, and consular activities.
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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)
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- Commonwealth Office, High Commission Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1961-1966
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Africa
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series began in 1961
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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 UKs external relations with Sierra Leone.
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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 High Commission in Freetown was established from April 1961, when Sierra Leone attained full independence as a self-governing member of the Commonwealth.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15643/
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