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Series
Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Italy and predecessor States: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 170
What's it about?
FO 170
This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulate to Italy. The earlier records relate to the States of Tuscany and Rome only, prior to the unification of Italy in 1861. Thereafter, the series contains...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 170
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulate, Italy and predecessor States: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1814-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulate to Italy. The earlier records relate to the States of Tuscany and Rome only, prior to the unification of Italy in 1861. Thereafter, the series contains correspondence for the whole of Italy.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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No correspondence survives for the periods May 1860 to December 1861, 1920 to 1934 and 1941 to 1943.
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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, Tuscany and Rome, 1813-1861
- Foreign Office, Consulates, Italy, 1861-1940
- Foreign Office, Consulates, Italy, 1944-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Italy, 1861-1940
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Italy, 1944-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1259 files and volumes
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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
- Europe and Russia
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7484/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
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