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Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations and predecessors: Board...
Catalogue reference: CAOG 17
What's it about?
CAOG 17
These files from various small registered file series relate to the operations of the Crown Agents in London and relations with government departments and with foreign governments for which they were not acting. They include material on the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAOG 17
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Title (The name of the record)
- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations and predecessors: Board of Crown Agents, Secretariat and Central Administrative Departments: Miscellaneous Registered File Series
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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These files from various small registered file series relate to the operations of the Crown Agents in London and relations with government departments and with foreign governments for which they were not acting. They include material on the Agents' London premises and their finances and administrative expenses; international aid; representatives abroad; and appointment of British consultants on technical matters.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files in the CA series were made available to the Croom-Johnson tribunal, and can be found in
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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)
- CA, O/CONF, O/MISC, O/OS, O/SEC and R Series
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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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 156 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1985 Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations
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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
- Aid and development
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3996/
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