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Series
Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 23
What's it about?
FCO 23
This series contains records of the Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office, January 1967 to October 1968, dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Canada, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Irish Republic and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FCO 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office, January 1967 to October 1968, dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Canada, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland. There is also some correspondence relating to remaining colonial territories in the area, the Associated States and the Bahamas, and correspondence on Commonwealth relations generally with North and Latin America.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related 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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G 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)
- Commonwealth Office, Atlantic Department, 1967-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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344 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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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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
- Caribbean
- Ireland
- Americas
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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 Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office was abolished upon the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, its functions passing to the Western European Department (matters relating to Ireland) and the North American and Caribbean Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7262/
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Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)
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