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Series
War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Mediterranean
Catalogue reference: CO 883
What's it about?
CO 883
This series contains confidential print on the Mediterranean. The documents contain papers concerning Malta, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Ionian Islands.
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 883
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Title (The name of the record)
- War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Mediterranean
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1844-1936
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential print on the Mediterranean.
The documents contain papers concerning Malta, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Ionian Islands.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some papers relating to these places, mostly dated between 1862 and 1879, are in the Africa series: CO 879
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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)
- CO 810
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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)
- 12 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2017 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5072/
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War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Confidential Print Mediterranean
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