Records of the Dominions Division

Division within CO

1907-1926

Contains records of the Dominions Division relating to dominion affairs, in particular during the First World War.

The general correspondence of the division to 1922 and all correspondence from 1922 to 1925 is in CO 532, with registers in CO 708 and registers of out-letters in CO 709

Special series of correspondence of the division relating to the First World War are in CO 616 (general, with registers in CO 752 and registers of out-letters in 753), CO 687 (trade, with registers in CO 756 and registers of out-letters in CO 757) and CO 693 (prisoners of war, with registers in CO 754 and registers of out-letters in CO 755)

New Zealand public service lists are in CO 719

For later records see Records created or inherited by the Dominions Office, and of the Commonwealth Relations and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices: DO

For confidential print relating to the dominions see CO 886

For records relating to particular dominions before 1922 see under the divisions for colonial correspondence, acts, sessional papers, government gazettes and records of local bodies.

Public Record(s)

English

13 series

Topics

Internment

Trade and commerce

Conflict

Australia and Pacific

Ireland

Americas

Operations, battles and campaigns

Africa

In pursuance of a decision of the Imperial Conference of that year, the Colonial Office was in 1907 divided into two divisions, a Crown Colonies Division and a Dominions Division. The former dealt with the dependencies, while the Dominions Division was concerned with dominion affairs and imperial conferences. The latter also dealt with certain dependencies which were thought to have a special affinity with the dominions: the South African High Commission territories, Rhodesia, the Western Pacific High Commission and Fiji. In 1925 the Dominions Division became independent of the Colonial Office as the Dominions Office.