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War and Colonial Department and Foreign Office: Consulate, Algiers, Ottoman Empire...
Catalogue reference: FO 111
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FO 111
This series contains general correspondence of the British consulate in Algiers. Comprises correspondence from vice-consuls and miscellaneous correspondence, 1818 to 1836; a collection of correspondence with French Commanders in Chief, the...
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FO 111
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Title (The name of the record)
- War and Colonial Department and Foreign Office: Consulate, Algiers, Ottoman Empire (later Algeria): General Correspondence, Series I
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Date (When the record was created)
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1814-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British consulate in Algiers. Comprises correspondence from vice-consuls and miscellaneous correspondence, 1818 to 1836; a collection of correspondence with French Commanders in Chief, the Foreign Office, etc., and memoranda, 1814 to 1897; and files of correspondence from 1939.
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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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- Foreign Office, Consulate, Algiers, 1836-1968
- War and Colonial Department, Consulate, Algiers, 1804-1836
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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20 volume(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 2001 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
- Middle East
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals 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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Between 1804 and 1836, the War and Colonial Department was responsible for supervision of the United Kingdom's consuls in Morocco, Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers (the Home Office having previously had responsibility for the Barbary States consuls).
In 1836 departmental responsibility passed to the Foreign Office.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For further information see p30 of 'The Records of the Foreign Office, 1782-1939' (PRO Handbook No 13)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7425/
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