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Series
Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department...
Catalogue reference: CO 1058
What's it about?
CO 1058
This series contains records of the departments of the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Office that dealt with constitutional development and related matters for the remaining dependent territories.
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 1058
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department and predecessors: Registered Files (CNS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the departments of the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Office that dealt with constitutional development and related matters for the remaining dependent territories.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see FCO 56
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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)
- CNS 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, Constitutional Planning Department, 1966-1966
- Colonial Office, International Relations and General Department, 1961-1966
- Commonwealth Office, Dependent Territories Constitutions Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 42 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran from 1966 to 1968
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Constitutional development in, and the staffing of the administrations of, dependent territories had previously been handled by the International Relations and General Department, and then the Constitutional Planning Department of the Colonial Office. A Dependent Territories Constitutions Department was established in the Commonwealth Office to carry out this work.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5247/
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