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Series
British Council: Secretariat: Overseas Standing Instructions
Catalogue reference: BW 110
What's it about?
BW 110
A numbered series of procedural instructions issued to British Council staff serving overseas by its senior management in London.These documents were first issued as 'Overseas Circulars' in 1944 and continued in that form in numerical sequence...
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 110
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Secretariat: Overseas Standing Instructions
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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A numbered series of procedural instructions issued to British Council staff serving overseas by its senior management in London.
These documents were first issued as 'Overseas Circulars' in 1944 and continued in that form in numerical sequence until 1955 (number 178 of 1955). From 1956 onwards the series was given the more formal title of Overseas Standing Instructions (OSI) and concentrated on personnel matters (subsistence and other allowances), office and staff accommodation, vehicles, inventories of furniture and equipment which were subsequently codified and incorporated into the council's service regulations and instructions and the financial and other handbooks.
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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)
- 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, Secretariat, 1936-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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/C3513/
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British Council: Secretariat: Overseas Standing Instructions
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