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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FO 1117
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FO 1117
This series contains registered files produced by the British Embassies in South Africa.The series contains records produced on both embassy sites (at Cape Town and at Pretoria), and some files to which papers have been added bearing both Cape...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 1117
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files produced by the British Embassies in South Africa.
The series contains records produced on both embassy sites (at Cape Town and at Pretoria), and some files to which papers have been added bearing both Cape Town and Pretoria registry stamps, or joint embassy stamps.
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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, Embassy, South Africa, 1968-1994
- Foreign Office, Embassy, South Africa, 1961-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 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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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1961-1994
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3 showing the administration of UK relations with South Africa from 1961 when South Africa left the Commonwealth.
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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 Union of South Africa became a republic in May 1961, and withdrew from the Commonwealth. Responsibility for British relations with South Africa remained with the Commonwealth Relations Office until December of that year, when the Foreign Office assumed responsibility. The High Commissioner in post in May 1961 became the first British ambassador to South Africa, based in Pretoria. From 1964 to date the embassy (later the High Commission) was located at Cape Town from January to June, and at Pretoria for the rest of the year. This series contains records produced on both sites, and some files to which papers have been added bearing both Cape Town and Pretoria registry stamps, or joint embassy stamps.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15765/
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