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The 1951 Refugee Convention
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Series
British Council: Secretariat: Numbered Circular Letters
Catalogue reference: BW 109
What's it about?
BW 109
Instructions and guidance on administrative procedures, etc, comprising a series of letters issued by the British Council's senior management in London to headquarters departments, representatives overseas and UK regional offices.The letters give...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BW 109
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Secretariat: Numbered Circular Letters
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Date (When the record was created)
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1947-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Instructions and guidance on administrative procedures, etc, comprising a series of letters issued by the British Council's senior management in London to headquarters departments, representatives overseas and UK regional offices.
The letters give guidance and instruction on a wide variety of topics including personnel matters, training, publications, public examinations and finance. The contents of some of the earlier circular letters were subsequently incorporated into codified administrative handbooks.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Numbered circular letters were first issued in 1947 and ran in sequence until 1952. From 1953 onwards the sequence ran for a calender year and letters were numbered accordingly, e.g. 53/62, 54/17, etc.
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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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Not 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)
- British Council, Secretariat, 1936-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3512/
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British Council: Secretariat: Numbered Circular Letters
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