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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion (Pearce...
Catalogue reference: FCO 92
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FCO 92
This series contains records produced by the British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion (Pearce Commission) in the course of its work, including representative samples of records made of interviews with members of the public in Rhodesia and with...
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FCO 92
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion (Pearce Commission): Records
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Date (When the record was created)
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1972-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced by the British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion (Pearce Commission) in the course of its work, including representative samples of records made of interviews with members of the public in Rhodesia and with representatives of various organisations, and policy and administrative files of the commission.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related FCO files for this period are in FCO 36
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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)
- British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion, 1971-1972
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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52 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2004 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)
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1971-1972
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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One accrual only expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting the work of the Pearce Commission to discover the consensus of public opinion in Rhodesia on matters relating to UDI. Policy files and representative and major interview and public opinion files selected; routine administrative records and other interview and public opinion files destroyed.
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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 Commission on Rhodesian Opinion was set up in 1971 following the agreement signed in November of that year by the UK Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, on proposals to end the constitutional dispute between Britain and Rhodesia. The commission, chaired by Lord Pearce, worked in Rhodesia from January to March 1972 to assess the opinions held by the population of the proposals.
The commission reported, in May 1972, that it was satisfied that the proposals were rejected by the majority of the African population in Rhodesia, following which the Rhodesian government withdrew from the agreement.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15949/
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