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Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General...
Catalogue reference: FO 286
What's it about?
FO 286
This series contains general correspondence from the British legation and consulates in Greece.
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 286
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1813-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British legation and consulates in Greece.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged largely by date. The arrangement within each year varies.
- FO 286/1-630 (up to October 1917): papers bound in volumes differentiated according to provenance, e.g. To Consuls, From Greek Government, etc.
- FO 286/631-717 (1917-1919): files arranged in file number order and bound into volumes; a single sequence of item numbers applies across this range of pieces.
- FO 286/718-1084 (1920-1929): files grouped under subject letters or (from 1923) letters and numbers and bound into volumes; when these records were originally listed, only selected files were described individually.
- FO 286/1085-1145 (1930-1937): files arranged in file number order but not bound into volumes; as not all files have survived, gaps appear in the sequence of item numbers.
- FO 286/1146-1461 (from 1942): files arranged in file number order but not bound into volumes; each file or part of multi-part file is a separate piece.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Correspondence for the period 1938 to 1941 has not survived. Legation correspondence for 1915 and the first six months of 1916 and for 1918 was also missing at transfer.
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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, Consulates, Greece, 1828-1968
- Foreign Office, Consulates, Greece, Ottoman Empire, 1813-1828
- Foreign Office, Legation, Greece, Ottoman Empire, 1813-1828
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1461 boxes, files and rolls
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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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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)
- For registers to 1860-1920 correspondence see FO 381 A list of the original prefix letters and numbers and the subjects allotted to them in 1923, with subsequent alterations - showing the years (in brackets) in which the changes took place is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7600/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FO
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Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
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