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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Embassy, Muscat, Oman: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: FCO 101
What's it about?
FCO 101
This series contains files created by the British Embassy in Muscat, Oman.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 101
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Title (The name of the record)
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: British Embassy, Muscat, Oman: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files created by the British Embassy in Muscat, Oman.
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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)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Muscat, 1971-1971
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 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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from 2008 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
- Middle East
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Occasional accruals may be 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 development of UK diplomatic relations with Oman. Policy files documenting developments not reflected in FCO Headquarters files selected.
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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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Britain's relations with Oman go back to the mid 17th century, when the East India Company began trading there, but more formal British representation did not exist until the early 1800s. A succession of Residents, some British, some Omani, had their role formalised in 1867, when the consular powers of the British representative were defined in an Order in Council. They were appointed and were responsible to the Indian authorities until 1948 when responsibility passed to the Foreign Office. The Residents were often known as Political Agent or HM Consul, until in 1971, the Muscat post became an Embassy.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16495/
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