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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Singapore: Registered...
Catalogue reference: DO 228
What's it about?
DO 228
This series contains records of the office of the British High Commissioner in Singapore.
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 228
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Singapore: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1965-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the office of the British High Commissioner in Singapore.
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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)
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission for Singapore, 1965-1966
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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
- Asia
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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 Commonwealth Office when it was formed in August 1966, and from there to 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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Series began in 1965
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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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Records in this series selected under Acquisition Policy criterin 2.2.1.3 documenting the conduct of UK relations with Singapore from its independence in 1965 by the office of the British High Commissioner.
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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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Singapore joined the Federation of Malaysia as a state in September 1963, but left Malaysia and became an independent state in August 1965. At that point, UK relations with Singapore, previously handled by the High Commissioner in Kuala Lumpur, were through a new High Commission in Singapore.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15747/
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