Record revealed
The 1951 Refugee Convention
The 1951 Refugee Convention defined international obligations to refugees, but also exposed global tensions in a context of decolonisation and ongoing conflict.
Series
Colonial Office: Duplicates of Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 412
What's it about?
CO 412
This series contains duplicates of correspondence in the general series, it having been the practice to send letters from the colonies in duplicate or triplicate.
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 412
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Duplicates of Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1605-1863
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains duplicates of correspondence in the general series, it having been the practice to send letters from the colonies in duplicate or triplicate.
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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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247 bundle(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
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Many documents formerly in this series have been destroyed or presented to colonial governments in accordance with an Inspecting Officers' schedule of 1909.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4603/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
372,534 records
Within the department: CO
Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices,...
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Colonial Office: Duplicates of Correspondence
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