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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department:...
Catalogue reference: DO 216
What's it about?
DO 216
This series contains records of the West and General Africa Department dealing with issues relating to Commonwealth interests in the whole of Africa, particularly the conflict in the Congo and the relations of the Commonwealth with the apartheid...
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 216
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: West and General Africa Department: Registered Files, General Africa (GA 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 of the West and General Africa Department dealing with issues relating to Commonwealth interests in the whole of Africa, particularly the conflict in the Congo and the relations of the Commonwealth with the apartheid regime in South Africa. The GA series was used for general Africa matters only, other file series were used for records of relations with the West African states.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records see:
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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)
- GA 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 and General Africa Department, 1964-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 63 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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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)
- Series ran from 1964 to 1966
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are 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 West and General Africa Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office was established in 1964 to handle Commonwealth relations with Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, and matters of general Commonwealth interest relating to Africa as a whole. General Africa questions had previously been dealt with by the UN and General Africa Department.
The department continued with unchanged responsibilities under the Commonwealth Office from August 1966, but its functions were dispersed to various departments in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from October 1968.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6225/
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