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Series
Colonial Office: Welfare and Students: Selected Personal Files
Catalogue reference: CO 981
What's it about?
CO 981
This series contains selected personal files of colonial students in the United Kingdom dealing with their welfare, education and training.
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 981
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Welfare and Students: Selected Personal Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941-1974
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains selected personal files of colonial students in the United Kingdom dealing with their welfare, education and training.
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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, Students Department, 1951-1961
- Colonial Office, Welfare Department, 1943-1951
- Department of Technical Co-operation, Students Branch, 1961-1964
- Ministry of Overseas Development, 1964-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 139 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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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
- Welfare
- International
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5170/
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