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Colonial Office: Colonial Empire Marketing Board: Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 868
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CO 868
This series contains original correspondence of the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. Includes copies of minutes of Board meetings.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 868
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Colonial Empire Marketing Board: Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1937-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original correspondence of the Colonial Empire Marketing Board. Includes copies of minutes of Board meetings.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Colonial Empire Marketing Board, 1937-1939
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 7 box(es)
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- Topics
- International
- Trade and commerce
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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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The Colonial Empire Marketing Board was established by the Secretary of State for the Colonies with himself as chairman in 1937, following the recommendations of an inter-departmental committee, to promote the marketing of colonial produce in the United Kingdom and overseas. It included MPs and representatives of commercial and shipping interests as well as members from the Department of Overseas Trade and the Imperial Institute.
The board had its own office and secretariat but was financed through the Colonial Office, with which it worked very closely. Operating largely through committees, it commenced work in 1938, concentrating initially on the investigation and improvement of the marketing methods for particular colonial products. Its other main activity was publicising colonial products in Britain by a variety of means. The board's operations were cut short by the outbreak of the Second World War, which it did not survive.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5057/
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