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Series
British Council: Registered Files, Bahrain
Catalogue reference: BW 166
What's it about?
BW 166
This series contains registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Bahrain.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 166
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Bahrain
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1968-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Bahrain.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier files on Council activities in the Persian Gulf see BW 114.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- BRN series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- British Council, 1936-1936
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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 2004 British Council
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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
- Middle East
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- File series ran from 1959
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Occasional further accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Selected under Acquisition Policy criteria 2.2.1.3 and 2.2.1.6, documenting the development of UK cultural relations with Bahrain.
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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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A British Council office was opened in Bahrain in 1959. Prior to that, Council dealings with Bahrain had been managed from the office in Kuwait which covered the whole of the Persian Gulf.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15862/
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British Council: Registered Files, Bahrain
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