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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Economic Relations Divisions...
Catalogue reference: DO 189
What's it about?
DO 189
This series contains files of the Economic Relations Departments I and II and their successors from 1964, the Western Economic and Asia Economic Departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office and from 1966 of the Commonwealth Office. Subjects...
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 189
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Economic Relations Divisions I and II and successors: Registered Files (ER and WED Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Economic Relations Departments I and II and their successors from 1964, the Western Economic and Asia Economic Departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office and from 1966 of the Commonwealth Office. Subjects covered in the files include Commonwealth budgets, consortium meetings of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Colombo Plan, the Association of South East Asia, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, the British Phosphate Commission and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, and general trade and economic relations.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records of the Asia Economic Department see FCO 11
For later records of the Western Economic Department see FCO 62
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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)
- ER and WED 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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- Commonwealth Office, Asia Economic Department, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Office, Western Economic Department, 1966-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Asia Economic Department, 1964-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department I, 1955-1964
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department II, 1955-1964
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Western Economic Department, 1964-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 704 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1960-1967
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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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From July 1961, when the Colombo Plan Department was absorbed into the new Department of Technical Co-operation, matters relating to the Commonwealth and the Colombo plan were dealt with Economic Relations Department II, along with general development and aid and economic matters relating to the 'new' Commonwealth. Economic Relations Department I dealt with relations with the 'old' Commonwealth.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6198/
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