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The 1951 Refugee Convention
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Series
Foreign Office: Library and the Research Department: General Correspondence from...
Catalogue reference: FO 370
What's it about?
FO 370
This series contains correspondence, etc, of the Library and of the Research Department from 1946. Includes records of the British Council Section. FO 370/596-630 were not used.
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 370
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Library and the Research Department: General Correspondence from 1906
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Date (When the record was created)
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1844-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence, etc, of the Library and of the Research Department from 1946. Includes records of the British Council Section.
FO 370/596-630 were not used.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later Foreign Office Library, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research Department files see FCO 51
For records of the British Council Section after it became the Cultural Relations Department see FO 924
For later Foreign Office Library, and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Library files see FCO 12
For Library Department correspondence up to 1905, see
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2930 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open 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
- Research
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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)
- Papers up to 1951 are indexed in FO 409
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7684/
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