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Series
Foreign Office: Confidential Print Africa
Catalogue reference: FO 403
What's it about?
FO 403
This series contains confidential print relating to Africa. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to various African countries, including Liberia; Madagascar; Morocco, 1919 to 1920 and 1942 to 1946; Algeria and Tunisia, to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 403
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Confidential Print Africa
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1642-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains confidential print relating to Africa. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to various African countries, including Liberia; Madagascar; Morocco, 1919 to 1920 and 1942 to 1946; Algeria and Tunisia, to 1951; Suez Canal and Egypt, 1942 to 1946; Abyssinia, 1911 to 1913, 1919 to 1923 and 1942 to 1946.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 779 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7717/
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