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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier,...
Catalogue reference: FO 174
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FO 174
This series contains general correspondence of the British consulate general and legation at Tangier and, from 1956, of the British Embassy in Rabat. The correspondence for the years 1907 and 1908 relates to the capture, and negotiations for the...
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FO 174
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier, and Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1785-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British consulate general and legation at Tangier and, from 1956, of the British Embassy in Rabat. The correspondence for the years 1907 and 1908 relates to the capture, and negotiations for the release, of Sir Harry Maclean, 'Kaid of Askar'.
There is no correspondence for the periods 1897 to 1906 and 1935 to 1941.
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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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Arabic and English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Rabat, Morocco, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Tangier, Morocco, 1785-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Rabat, Morocco, 1956-1968
- Foreign Office, Legation, Tangier, Morocco, 1785-1956
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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409 files and volumes
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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 1958 Foreign 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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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 main British representative in Morocco, the Consulate General in charge of the legation, was based at Tangier until Morocco gained its independence from France in 1956. At that time, Rabat became the capital of Morocco, and a British embassy was established there.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7488/
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier, and Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: General Correspondence
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