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Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho...

Catalogue reference: DO 212

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DO 212

This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

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Reference
DO 212
Title
Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)
Date
1966-1967
Description

This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Arrangement
Arrangement

Former file reference

Related material

For later Commonwealth Office files see:

For earlier Colonial Office records for these territories see CO 1048 FCO 31 FCO 45 FCO 29

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Commonwealth Office, East Africa Department, 1967-1967
Physical description
14 file(s)
Access conditions
Open
Immediate source of acquisition

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Subjects
Topics
International
Africa
Accruals
No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background

The East Africa Department in the Commonwealth Office dealt with UK and Commonwealth relations with Commonwealth and remaining colonial states in East and Southern Africa. These functions passed to an East and Southern Africa Department in 1967, the title of which then reverted to East Africa Department, before passing to the East Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office upon its formation in October 1968.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6221/

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