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Series
British Council: Registered Files, Scholarships
Catalogue reference: BW 84
What's it about?
BW 84
British Council files dealing with applications for scholarships from overseas students, and arrangements for their studies and general welfare in this country. Some files contain photographs of the students.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 84
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Scholarships
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1937-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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British Council files dealing with applications for scholarships from overseas students, and arrangements for their studies and general welfare in this country.
Some files contain photographs of the students.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Catalogue entries for this series have been enhanced as part of a project supported by volunteers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files are arranged alphabetically by order of country of origin.
Some documents filed under the name of a particular student also refer to other students.
Some of the indexes relating to the files reference students where no papers have been filed. These have been assigned item numbers where a physical explanatory note is present in the file explaining this. However, where no papers or explanatory note exists, these students have been listed at the piece level description.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also
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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)
- GEN/160/50 file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- 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)
- British Council, 1936-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 68 file(s)
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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
- Education
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3488/
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British Council: Registered Files, Scholarships
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