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Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives,...
Catalogue reference: DO 224
What's it about?
DO 224
Records detailing the work of the UK High Commission in Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe, dealing with the conduct of UK relations with Malawi, 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 224
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Malawi: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1945-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records detailing the work of the UK High Commission in Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe, dealing with the conduct of UK relations with Malawi, 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, Zomba, Malawi, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission, Zomba, Malawi, 1964-1966
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Blantyre, Malawi, 1971-1975
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Lilongwe, Malawi, 1975-1975
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Zomba, Malawi, 1968-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 38 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 1964
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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 2.2.1.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of UK external relations with Malawi.
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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 High Commission in Zomba was established from July 1964, when Malawi attained full independence as a self-governing member of the Commonwealth. The capital of Malawi was moved from Zomba to the new development of Lilongwe in 1975. The High Commissioner's office had already moved from Zomba to the main economic centre of Malawi, Blantyre, in 1971, and was relocated to Lilongwe in 1975.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15648/
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