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British Council: Registered Files, Leeward Islands
Catalogue reference: BW 117
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BW 117
Headquarters files relating to the British Council's limited activities in the Leeward Islands (Antigua, St Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands), including correspondence with the overseas representative (based variously in...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 117
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, Leeward Islands
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1951-1961
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Description (What the record is about)
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Headquarters files relating to the British Council's limited activities in the Leeward Islands (Antigua, St Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands), including correspondence with the overseas representative (based variously in Trinidad and Barbados, but never in one of the Leeward Islands).
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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, 1936-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1 file(s)
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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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- Topics
- International
- Caribbean
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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 Leeward Islands did not have a separate British Council representative. Activities there were carried out under the auspices of the representative in Barbados (1944-1967), or at times the representative in Trinidad and Tobago (1943-1967).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3520/
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