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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Information Service,...
Catalogue reference: FO 1115
What's it about?
FO 1115
This series contains registered files produced in the overseas offices of the British Information Service in the course of their work.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1115
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Information Service, Overseas Posts: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1968-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files produced in the overseas offices of the British Information Service in the course of their work.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some British Information Service post files may be found in the relevant series of consular or embassy files for the post concerned.
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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)
- 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)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, British Information Service, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, British Information Service, 1946-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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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
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occassional accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Records selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the work of the overseas posts of the British Information Service of the Foreign Office. Key policy files where the papers not copied back to the London HQ department of the Foreign Office only are to be selected.
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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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The British Information Service based in overseas posts originated in the corps of Press Attaches who were appointed between the First and Second World Wars to the more important posts to advise ministers and ambassadors on public opinion in the countries concerned. They also liaised with journalists and, later, broadcasters, British and foreign, working in the countries concerned.
During the war, all information service work was taken over (and greatly expanded) by the Ministry of Information, which remained in charge of overseas information work until 1946. The ministry's overseas representatives were attached to diplomatic missions and responsible to the head of the post for their local work, but were paid for and supplied by the ministry.
On the dissolution of the Ministry of Information in 1946, the Foreign Office assumed control of all foreign information work, and the service was known as the British Information Service. Information Officers since then have covered the whole field of British publicity directed towards foreign countries, except for the cultural and educational work of the British Council.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15726/
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