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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Library and Records Department...
Catalogue reference: FCO 18
What's it about?
FCO 18
This series contains maps and plans created by Foreign Office cartographers. They depict among other things, international boundaries and natural resources, areas of conflict and political divisions, maritime boundaries, relief maps and survey...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 18
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Library and Records Department and predecessors: Cartographers' Maps, Plans and Drawings
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Date (When the record was created)
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1875-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains maps and plans created by Foreign Office cartographers. They depict among other things, international boundaries and natural resources, areas of conflict and political divisions, maritime boundaries, relief maps and survey results, historical railways, technical drawings, building and engineering plans and architectural drawings.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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FO 925 (FO maps to 1940), CO 700 and CO 1047 (Colonial Office maps covering up to World War II) and CO 1054 (Colonial Office and Commonwealth Relations Office maps)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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- Commonwealth Office, Library, 1966-1967
- Commonwealth Office, Library Department, 1967-1968
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library, 2000-2000
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Libraries, 1968-1969
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Library and Records Department, 1969-1999
- Foreign Office, Library, 1801-1946
- Foreign Office, Library, 1959-1968
- Foreign Office, Research and Library Department, 1946-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2354 flat sheet(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
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21 x1 5cm-171 x 74cm
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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 2018 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
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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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Five cartographers worked for the Foreign Office and Foreign & Commonwealth Office Library and Records Department during the period 1875-2003 and they provided up to date maps to the geographical departments or the Research Department. The maps often demonstrate British government contemporary policy on geographical areas during the period covered.
Also included within this collection are maps drawn by Julian Walker who surveyed and mapped boundaries within the Trucial States during the period 1955-1960 whilst a member of the Diplomatic Service.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7257/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Library and Records Department and predecessors: Cartographers' Maps, Plans and Drawings
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