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Series
British Council: Registered Files, Ecuador (ECU file series)
Catalogue reference: BW 171
What's it about?
BW 171
Registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Ecuador.
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 171
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Ecuador (ECU file series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1977-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files produced by the British Council in London recording dealings with Ecuador.
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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)
- ECU file series
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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 and Spanish
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 16 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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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
- Americas
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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 criteria 2.2.1.3 and 2.2.1.6 documenting the development of United Kingdom culutral relations with Ecuador.
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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 first British Council office in Ecuador was opened in 1942 and closed in 1947. An office was established again in 1978, and remained open until July 2001, from which time limited Council services were offered through a cultural attache at the embassy in Quito while the Council office in Columbia dealt with the provision of cultural and educational links to Ecuador.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15868/
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