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Series
Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Her Majesty's Commissioner,...
Catalogue reference: CO 1063
What's it about?
CO 1063
This series contains records produced by the office of Her Majesty's Commissioner in Swaziland.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 1063
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Her Majesty's Commissioner, Swaziland: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced by the office of Her Majesty's Commissioner in Swaziland.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier records of the High Commissioner for South Africa concerning Swazialand are in DO 119
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Her Majesty's Commissioner, Swaziland, 1963-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Records of the Colonial Office passed into the custody of the Commonwealth Office when it was created in August 1966, and thence into the custody of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series ran from 1963 to 1968
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting UK relations with Swaziland.
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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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Under the Swaziland Order in Council of December 1963, responsibility for the administration of Swaziland passed from the High Commissioner to South Africa to the newly created post of Her Majesty's Commissioner in Swaziland. This arrangement continued until Swaziland attained independence as a Kingdom within the Commonwealth in September 1968. From this time the UK representative in Swaziland was designated High Commissioner.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15667/
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Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Office of the Her Majesty's Commissioner, Swaziland: Registered Files
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