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Series
War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Eastern
Catalogue reference: CO 882
What's it about?
CO 882
This series contains confidential print on the 'Far East'. The documents contain papers relating to the Eastern colonies; in particular Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Mauritius, Weihaiwei, the Straits Settlements, the Malay States (especially the...
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 882
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Title (The name of the record)
- War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Eastern
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Date (When the record was created)
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1843-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential print on the 'Far East'.
The documents contain papers relating to the Eastern colonies; in particular Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Mauritius, Weihaiwei, the Straits Settlements, the Malay States (especially the Federated Malay States) and Malaya. Other individual prints concern Aden, British North Borneo, the Maldive Islands, the Seychelles, and Singapore.
Also included in the series is a print (in CO 882/3) relating to the Falkland Islands, and two prints (in CO 882/1) which additionally relate to the Falkland Islands and the North American colonies.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
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CO 809
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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33 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Pieces 13-32 (in 1970) and piece 33 (in 2017) from: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Pieces 1-9 (prior to 1965) and 10-12 (in 1966) from: Colonial 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5071/
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War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Eastern
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