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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Legation, Portugal:...
Catalogue reference: FO 179
What's it about?
FO 179
This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and legation in Portugal. There is no correspondence for the period 1913 to 1940.
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 179
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Legation, Portugal: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1800-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and legation in Portugal. There is no correspondence for the period 1913 to 1940.
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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 and Portuguese
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Portugal, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Portugal, 1800-1968
- Foreign Office, Legation, Portugal, 1800-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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629 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 1970 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
- Europe and Russia
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7493/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Legation, Portugal: General Correspondence
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