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Series
Foreign Office, Contraband Department, and Ministry of Blockade: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 382
What's it about?
FO 382
This series contains general correspondence of the Contraband Departments and the Ministry of Blockade.
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 382
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office, Contraband Department, and Ministry of Blockade: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1915-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence of the Contraband Departments and the Ministry of Blockade.
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign Office, Contraband Department, 1914-1916
- Foreign Office, Contraband Department, 1919-1920
- Ministry of Blockade, 1916-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2523 volume(s)
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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
- Trade and commerce
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Reference is by means of the card index and registers in FO 566 and FO 662
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7696/
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