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Colonial Office: Northern Rhodesia: Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 795
What's it about?
CO 795
This series contains original correspondence relating to Northern Rhodesia.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 795
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Northern Rhodesia: Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1923-1951
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence relating to Northern Rhodesia.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see CO 1015
For earlier records see CO 417
For further records see CO 952
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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)
- 170 files and volumes
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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
- Africa
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to correspondence see CO 796
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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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Northern Rhodesia was formed as a result of a merger between the territories of North Western and North Eastern Rhodesia in 1911. In 1953 it entered a federation with Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4984/
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