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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: North America Department: Registered Papers and...
Catalogue reference: FCO 82
What's it about?
FCO 82
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 82
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: North America Department: Registered Papers and Digital Files (AM Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1970-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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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.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- AM file series
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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 and Commonwealth Office, North America Department, 1971-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5838 paper files and digital records
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open 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
- Caribbean
- Polar
- Americas
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series began in 1971
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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 2.2.2.3 of the PRO acquisition policy, dealing with the history of the conduct of the UK's external relations
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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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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.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15657/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: North America Department: Registered Papers and Digital Files (AM Series)
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