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Series
Colonial Office: Economic General Department and predecessors: Registered Files
Catalogue reference: CO 852
What's it about?
CO 852
This series contains files of the Economic General Department and predecessor economic departments of the Colonial Office covering a broad range of colonial economic policy, including commerce, finance, industrial development, the supply and...
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 852
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Economic General Department and predecessors: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1935-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Economic General Department and predecessor economic departments of the Colonial Office covering a broad range of colonial economic policy, including commerce, finance, industrial development, the supply and production of food and commodities, tariffs and taxation policy. Among later files in the series, a large proportion relates to the Colonial Development Corporation, to international commercial relations, to American aid and associated questions, and to the United Nations. Also included are minutes and papers of the Committee on Aerial Survey of Forests.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
CO 852/1-1364 only have been listed in detail.
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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)
- 2447 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers of to this correspondence see CO 920
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5041/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CO
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Colonial Office: Economic General Department and predecessors: Registered Files
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