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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt:...
Catalogue reference: FO 141
What's it about?
FO 141
This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Egypt and the United Arab Republic.
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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FO 141
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1815-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Egypt and the United Arab Republic.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Material for the period 1930 to 1941 has not survived.
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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 and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, United Arab Republic, 1968-1971
- Foreign Office, Consulates, Egypt, 1815-1958
- Foreign Office, Consulates, United Arab Republic, 1958-1965
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Egypt, 1815-1958
- Foreign Office, Embassy, United Arab Republic, 1958-1965
- Foreign Office, Embassy, United Arab Republic, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1523 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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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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Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- The catalogue descriptions for FO 141/425-828 covering the years 1904-1937 contains only original file references. This is supplemented however by an alphabetical index held at the National Archives. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk.
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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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After Egypt united with Syria in 1958, Egypt and Syria were known as the United Arab Republic. Though Syria withdrew from the union in 1961, the name United Arab Republic continued in use for Egypt until September 1971.
Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United Arab Republic were broken off in 1965 and resumed in 1968, during which time British interests were handled by the Canadian embassy in Cairo.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7455/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Egypt: General Correspondence
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