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Series
British North Borneo Company: Papers
Catalogue reference: CO 874
What's it about?
CO 874
This series contains agreements, deeds, leases, etc., financial papers, volumes and files of correspondence, etc., of the British North Borneo Company.
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 874
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Title (The name of the record)
- British North Borneo Company: Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1836-1949
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains agreements, deeds, leases, etc., financial papers, volumes and files of correspondence, etc., of the British North Borneo Company.
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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)
- British North Borneo Company, 1881-1953
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1114 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
- Asia
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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 British North Borneo Company was incorporated in 1881 and assumed charge of British North Borneo in 1882. It continued to govern the territory until the Japanese invasion of 1942. The company was dissolved in 1953.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5063/
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