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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department;...
Catalogue reference: FCO 168
What's it about?
FCO 168
The collection contains policy files of the Information Research Department in different series documenting the policy and workings of the IRD in different areas of the world. It also contains general admin files on the day to day running of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 168
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department; Registered Files (O, RJ and V Prefix)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951-2012
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Description (What the record is about)
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The collection contains policy files of the Information Research Department in different series documenting the policy and workings of the IRD in different areas of the world. It also contains general admin files on the day to day running of the department.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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This series is arranged by file prefix order.
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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)
- O, RJ and V prefix
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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)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Information Research Department, 1968-1977
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Overseas Information Department, 1977-1980
- Foreign Office, Information Research Department, 1948-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 8305 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 2018 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
- Research
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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 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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The Foreign Office Information Research Department (IRD) was formed in 1948 to combat Soviet propaganda and communist influence worldwide. It became the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Information Research Department in 1968 until 1977. Initially operating mainly in Western Europe and South East Asia, it later expanded to South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean/Latin America and also operated within the UK creating different series of policy and general administration files on the workings of the IRD in different areas of the world.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16555605/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Information Research Department; Registered Files (O, RJ and V Prefix)
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