Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver
Catalogue reference: FCO 166
What's it about?
FCO 166
The series contains the documents generated by Lord Carver’s Secretariat. The files contain the record from: Secretariats meetings (1977-78);organisation, composition and personnel of the Rhodesian civil service; planning and monitoring of...
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FCO 166
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver
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Date (When the record was created)
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1977-1982
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains the documents generated by Lord Carvers Secretariat. The files contain the record from:
- Secretariats meetings (1977-78);
- organisation, composition and personnel of the Rhodesian civil service;
- planning and monitoring of the ceasefire agreement;
- proceedings of the ceasefire commission;
- report of the British Military Advisory and Training Team in Zimbabwe (1980-1982);
- Organisation of the Governor's Office and BHC Salisbury;
- Governor's diary 1980;
- Commission appointing Lord Soames to become Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1979;
- Press arrangements for Constitutional Conference in London 1979;
- ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union) Central Committee members 1979;
- declarations of political leaders at election council;
- Final reports from all provincial supervisors.
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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, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Records not yet transferred
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No accruals are expected after initial transfer.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under Records Collection Policy.
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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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In August 1977 Lord Carver was appointed resident commissioner designate for Rhodesia with responsibility for ending the dispute over independence there. He resigned after fourteen months of deadlock. This collection was created by Lt Col W E Rous, one of Lord Carver?s Secretariat staff.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16555603/
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