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Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department
Catalogue reference: Division within DO
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Division within DO
Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department relating to emigration from Britain to the dominions. Correspondence of the department is in DO 57, with registers of correspondence in DO 5 and DO 6.
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Division within DO
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department
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Date (When the record was created)
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1926-1936
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Dominions Office's Overseas Settlement Department relating to emigration from Britain to the dominions. Correspondence of the department is in DO 57, with registers of correspondence in DO 5 and DO 6.
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See also Records of Emigration Departments in
For the papers of W B Amery while British government representative in Australia for migration (1925-1928) and principal, Oversea Settlement Department (1929-1931) see DO 190
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Dominions Office, Overseas Settlement Department, 1925-1936
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 series
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- Topics
- International
- Migration
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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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In 1925 the Oversea Settlement Department and the Overseas Settlement Committee were transferred from the Colonial Office to the Dominions Office. An Inter-Departmental Committee on Migration Policy examined the whole question of emigration from the United Kingdom to the Commonwealth, and recommended (Cmd 4689 of 1934) a revised system. In 1936 the department ceased to exist as a separate entity and the committee was replaced by the Overseas Settlement Board, responsible for advising the secretary of state on matters of migration policy. The board became defunct during the Second World War but was revived in 1953.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C492/
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