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Photograph of the Jubilee Singers
This photo shows an African American student choir who toured the UK and whose performances were attended by Queen Victoria and the Prime Minister.
Series
Foreign Office: Central Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Southern...
Catalogue reference: FCO 9
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FCO 9
This series contains records of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, (dealing with UK relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden between January 1967...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Central Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Southern European Department: Registered Papers and Digital Files (C and WS Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1961-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, (dealing with UK relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden between January 1967 and October 1968), and records of the Southern European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (dealing with UK relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Malta, Cyprus, Andorra, and external relations of Gibraltar from October 1968-1974).
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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 within annual file cycles.
References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' (either at the start of the piece reference or at the end), which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.
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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)
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C and WS file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Southern European Department, 1968-2004
- Foreign Office, Central Department, 1962-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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11770 paper files and digital records
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 1998 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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing annually
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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 Central Department of the Foreign Office (which was responsible for relations between Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Irish Republic, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey) was disbanded upon the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968. Relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Malta, Cyprus, and the external relations of Gibraltar (previously the responsibility of the Commonwealth Office, Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department and Middle East, Western and United Nations General Department) were transferred to the new Southern European Department until 2004. Responsibility for Andorra passed from the Western European Department to the Southern European Department in 1977.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7248/
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