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Series
Colonial Office: West Africa Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 554
What's it about?
CO 554
This series relates to matters affecting West Africa as a whole and to the particular countries in the region for which Great Britain had sole responsibility or shared responsibility with France, namely: the Cameroons, Gambia, the Gold Coast,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 554
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: West Africa Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1911-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series relates to matters affecting West Africa as a whole and to the particular countries in the region for which Great Britain had sole responsibility or shared responsibility with France, namely: the Cameroons, Gambia, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Togoland.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For further correspondence relating to Togoland see CO 724
For further correspondence relating to the Gold Coast see CO 96
See also CO 583
Later files can be found in OD 30
For further correspondence relating to Gambia see CO 87
For further correspondence relating to Cameroons see CO 649
For further correspondence relating to Sierra Leone see CO 267
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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)
- 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)
- 2654 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure 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
- Europe and Russia
- Africa
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For a register to correspondence see CO 555
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4744/
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