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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Economic Department...
Catalogue reference: DO 214
What's it about?
DO 214
This series contains records produced by the East Africa Economic Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and records in the same series produced by the successor department dealing with UK and Commonwealth economic relations with East Africa.
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 214
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Economic Department and Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department: Registered Files, East Africa Economic (EAE Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records produced by the East Africa Economic Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and records in the same series produced by the successor department dealing with UK and Commonwealth economic relations with East Africa.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arrangement is by former file reference except for a number of parliamentary question files which appear at the end of the series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later Commonwealth Office records concerning economic matters in East Africa see FCO 31
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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)
- EAE 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, Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department, 1966-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department, 1965-1966
- Commonwealth Relations Office, East Africa Economic Department, 1964-1965
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 141 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1964-1966
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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 East Africa Economic Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office was responsible for UK and Commonwealth economic, trade and development aid relations with Tanganyika and Zanzibar (later Tanzania), Kenya and Uganda, the East African Common Services Organisation, and matters relating to Commonwealth coffee interests. The Department was absorbed into a new Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department in September 1965. Its functions continuing essentially unaltered in the new Department, which continued in the Commonwealth Office after August 1966.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6223/
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