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Series
Colonial Office: British North Borneo Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 531
What's it about?
CO 531
This series contains original correspondence relating to North Borneo. Before 1946 correspondence relating to Sarawak is included.
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 531
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: British North Borneo Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1907-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to North Borneo. Before 1946 correspondence relating to Sarawak is included.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see CO 1022
For later records relating to Sarawak see CO 938
For further records see CO 954
For records prior to 1907 see CO 144
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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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52 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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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
- Asia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to this correspondence, 1907-1914 see CO 352 For registers to this correspondence, 1915-1941 see CO 777
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4721/
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Colonial Office: British North Borneo Original Correspondence
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