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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Trinidad and Tobago:...
Catalogue reference: DO 227
What's it about?
DO 227
This series contains registered files produced in the Office of the UK High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
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 227
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Trinidad and Tobago: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1962-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files produced in the Office of the UK High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By former file reference within transfers.
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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 Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago, 1962-1966
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 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
- Caribbean
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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 Commonwealth Relations Office High Commissioners passed to 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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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 criteria 2.2.1.3, detailing UK relations with Trinidad and Tobago after independence.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15679/
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Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Trinidad and Tobago: Registered Files
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