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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Nigeria: Registered...
Catalogue reference: DO 186
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DO 186
This series contains records of the British High Commission and Deputy High Commissions in Nigeria.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DO 186
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission, Nigeria: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1958-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the British High Commission and Deputy High Commissions in Nigeria.
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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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- Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Nigeria, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission, Nigeria, 1960-1966
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Nigeria, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 30 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
- Africa
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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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The Federation of Nigeria achieved independence as a member of the Commonwealth on 1 October 1960, and became a republic in October 1963. British representation in Nigeria from October 1960 consisted of the High Commission in Lagos, and offices for four Deputy High Commissioners for each of the federal regions (Kaduna in Northern Nigeria; Enugu in Eastern Nigeria; Ibadan in Western Nigeria) and Lagos in the capital. No separate deputy high commission was established in Mid-Western Nigeria when that region was created in August 1963 out of provinces previously part of Western Nigeria. The regional structure was eventually replaced by division into 30 (later increased to 36) states, but British representation retained the same pattern, though the number and location of Deputy High Commissions varied over time.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6195/
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