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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Sweden:...
Catalogue reference: FO 188
What's it about?
FO 188
This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulate in Sweden.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 188
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulate, Sweden: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1802-1969
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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 in Sweden.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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All correspondence in this series for the years 1914 to 1938 and some for 1939 and 1940 was destroyed in 1940 under the threat of enemy invasion.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and Swedish
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Sweden, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Sweden, 1802-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Sweden, 1802-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 739 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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
- Europe and Russia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7502/
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