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Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Defence Department and successors: Original...
Catalogue reference: CO 968
What's it about?
CO 968
This series contains records of the Defence Departments comprising files dealing with all aspects of the defence and security of the colonial empire including matters of policy and internal security.
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 968
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Defence Department and successors: Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Defence Departments comprising files dealing with all aspects of the defence and security of the colonial empire including matters of policy and internal security.
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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)
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- Colonial Office, Defence and General Department, 1948-1955
- Colonial Office, Defence and Intelligence Department, 1965-1966
- Colonial Office, Defence Department, 1939-1948
- Colonial Office, Defence Department, 1955-1961
- Colonial Office, Defence, Intelligence and Hong Kong Department, 1963-1965
- Colonial Office, Defence, Intelligence and Security Department, 1961-1963
- Commonwealth Office, Defence Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1201 boxes and files
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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 1972-2005 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)
- Series is not accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5157/
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