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Series
Colonial Office and successors: Colonial Service Division, later Overseas Service...
Catalogue reference: CO 1017
What's it about?
CO 1017
This series contains files relating to a wide range of work carried out by the Colonial and Overseas Service Divisions, especially pensions, personnel matters, the establishment of public services in colonial and former colonial territories and...
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 1017
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and successors: Colonial Service Division, later Overseas Service Division: Registered Files (CSA, CSB, OSA and BCD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1948-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files relating to a wide range of work carried out by the Colonial and Overseas Service Divisions, especially pensions, personnel matters, the establishment of public services in colonial and former colonial territories and the recruitment and training of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service. The Divisions were also involved in the implementation of the Overseas Service Aid Scheme, and there are files relating to the territories in the scheme in this series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later service files can be found in OD 16
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- BCD, CSA, CSB and OSA file series
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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, 1854-1966
- Colonial Office, Colonial Service Division, 1945-1954
- Colonial Office, Overseas Service Division, 1954-1961
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 909 file(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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In 1982-2014 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
- Pay and pensions
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- OSA files relating to the administration of colonial service pensions passed to the Department of Technical Co-operation when that function was transferred from the Colonial Office in 1961 and was transferred to successive overseas development departments, ultimately to the Department for International Development in 1997.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5206/
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Colonial Office and successors: Colonial Service Division, later Overseas Service Division: Registered Files (CSA, CSB, OSA and BCD Series)
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