Foreign and Commonwealth Office: North America Department: Registered Papers and...

FCO 82

1970-1995

Records in this series concern UK relations with Canada, the United States of America, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and other overseas territories administered by the United States, and Arctic affairs.

The records are arranged by original file reference within annual cycles of registered files.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' (either at the start of the piece reference or at the end), which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.

AM file series

Public Record(s)

English

5838 paper files and digital records

Open unless otherwise stated

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Caribbean

Polar

Americas

Series began in 1971

Series is accruing

Records selected by the FCO under PRO supervision under section 2.2.2.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations

In 1971 the America Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was split, and separate Latin America and North America Departments created in its place. The North America Department handled UK relations with Canada and the United States of America, and overseas territories in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea administered by the United States, as well as UK interests in affairs in the Arctic region.