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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Far Eastern Department: Registered...
Catalogue reference: FCO 21
What's it about?
FCO 21
This series contains records of the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office to October 1968 dealing with UK relations with China, Taiwan, Macao, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia from January 1967. The records for this period also cover Foreign...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 21
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Far Eastern Department: Registered Files (F and FE Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office to October 1968 dealing with UK relations with China, Taiwan, Macao, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia from January 1967. The records for this period also cover Foreign Office correspondence on Commonwealth interests in the far east and south Asia. From October 1968, the records are those of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Far Eastern Department, whose responsibilities also included external relations of Hong Kong (internal affairs being managed by a separate Hong Kong Department).
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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.
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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)
- F and FE 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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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Far Eastern Department, 1968-1994
- Foreign Office, Far Eastern Department, 1906-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5880 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 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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- Topics
- International
- Asia
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1967-
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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The Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office continued with largely unaltered functions under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, except for the addition of responsibility for external relations of Hong Kong. This responsibility was later returned to the Hong Kong Department. The Far Eastern Department became the Far Eastern and Pacific Department in 1994.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7260/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Far Eastern Department: Registered Files (F and FE Series)
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