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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department...
Catalogue reference: DO 195
What's it about?
DO 195
This series contains records produced by the West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successors. The records relate to United Kingdom relations with Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Gambia and matters of...
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 195
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department and successors: Registered Files (WA 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 records produced by the West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successors. The records relate to United Kingdom relations with Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Gambia and matters of general concern to the Commonwealth in West Africa (particularly the emergency in the Congo).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later Commonwealth Office records relating to Commonwealth West Africa see FCO 38
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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)
- WA 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, West and General Africa Department, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, West Africa Department, 1962-1965
- Commonwealth Relations Office, West and General Africa Department, 1961-1962
- Commonwealth Relations Office, West and General Africa Department, 1964-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 430 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
- International
- Africa
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6204/
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