Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives,...
Catalogue reference: DO 226
What's it about?
DO 226
This series contains records produced in the office of the UK High Commissioner to Kenya.
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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DO 226
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Kenya: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced in the office of the UK High Commissioner to Kenya.
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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)
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- Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1963-1966
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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 Commonwealth Relations Office passed to the custody of the Commonwealth Office when it was created in August 1966, and thence to 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 began in 1963
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Occasional further accruals expected.
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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 Kenya after independence.
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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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Kenya achieved independence within the Commonwealth in December 1963, and from that date the UK representative in Kenya was the High Commissioner.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15669/
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Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Kenya: Registered Files
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