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Series
Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 28
What's it about?
CO 28
This series contains original correspondence relating to Barbados.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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CO 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and predecessors: Barbados, Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1689-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to Barbados.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Bound volumes arranged chronologically, and from 1802 within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. From 1926 the correspondence is arranged in subject files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see CO 1031
See also CO 318
For correspondence relating to Barbados from 1874 to 1885 see CO 321
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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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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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343 volume(s)
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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
- Caribbean
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers of correspondence see CO 326 under West Indies before 1850, CO 376 (Windward Islands) from 1850 to 1885, and CO 565 from 1886. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714
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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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Barbados was annexed by Britain in 1625 and settled by 1627, in which year the office of governor and a legislative council were established. A house of assembly was constituted in 1639. Barbados was a member of the Federation of the West Indies which was set up in 1958 but dissolved in 1962. It became an independent state within the Commonwealth on 30 November 1966.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies, 1574-1739 (HMSO, 1860-1994; CDROM edition, Routledge, 2000)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4219/
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