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Series
British Council: Registered Files, French West Africa and successor states
Catalogue reference: BW 143
What's it about?
BW 143
Headquarters files relating to British Council activities in French West Africa, and its component states after they achieved independence (Guinea in 1958; Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Upper Volta all in 1960),...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BW 143
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Council: Registered Files, French West Africa and successor states
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1956-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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Headquarters files relating to British Council activities in French West Africa, and its component states after they achieved independence (Guinea in 1958; Dahomey, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Upper Volta all in 1960), including correspondence with the overseas representatives. Also included is correspondence relating to the broader French colonial sphere of west and central Africa and French Equatorial Africa (including Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Congo and Gabon).
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and French
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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)
- 12 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 1996 British Council
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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
- Africa
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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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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There was an British Council acting representative (A Elwyn Owen) to French-speaking West Africa from 1962 to 1963, as well as representatives to Guinea and Mali (1961-1962), Cameroon (from 1969) and Senegal (from 1973).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3546/
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