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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Energy Department: Registered Files (ME Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 96
What's it about?
FCO 96
This series contains records of the Energy Department dealing with diplomatic policy relating to all aspects of energy (oil, coal, gas, nuclear and environmental) at the time of the oil crisis of the mid-1970s.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 96
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Energy Department: Registered Files (ME Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1974-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Energy Department dealing with diplomatic policy relating to all aspects of energy (oil, coal, gas, nuclear and environmental) at the time of the oil crisis of the mid-1970s.
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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)
- ME
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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)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Energy Department, 1974-1977
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1716 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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Foreign and Commonwealth Office , from 2005
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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
- Oil and gas
- Coal
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Files series ran from 1974 to 1977
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- This 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 2.2.1.2 and 2.2.1.3, documenting the work of the FCO in maintaining diplomatic relations relating to energy during the oil crisis of the mid-1970s.
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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 Energy Department was formed in 1974 as part of the FCO's response to the deepening energy crisis of that year. It took over responsibility for all energy matters from the Industry, Science and Energy Department. The Energy Department was absorbed in 1977 into a new Energy, Science and Space Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16262/
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