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Series
Colonial Office: Establishment and Organisation Department and predecessors: Registered...
Catalogue reference: CO 866
What's it about?
CO 866
This series contains records of the Establishment Officer and Establishment Department.
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 866
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Establishment and Organisation Department and predecessors: Registered Files (EOD and other Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1922-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Establishment Officer and Establishment Department.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later files on establishment matters are in OD 18
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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EOD file series
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Colonial Office, Establishment and Organisation Department, 1948-1966
- Colonial Office, Establishment Branch, 1939-1945
- Colonial Office, Establishment Department, 1945-1948
- Colonial Office, Establishment Officer, 1922-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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177 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1967 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers to this correspondence see CO 867
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5055/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
372,534 records
Within the department: CO
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Colonial Office: Establishment and Organisation Department and predecessors: Registered Files (EOD and other Series)
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