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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, High Commission and...
Catalogue reference: FO 624
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FO 624
This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy and consulate in Iraq. Also includes files of the Baghdad High Commission, 1921 to 1932.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 624
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, High Commission and Consulate, Iraq: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1921-1964
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains general correspondence from the British embassy and consulate in Iraq. Also includes files of the Baghdad High Commission, 1921 to 1932.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By year and then by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence.
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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 and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1968-1991
- Foreign Office, Consulate, Iraq, 1932-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1932-1967
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Iraq, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, High Commission, Iraq, 1921-1932
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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241 boxes and files
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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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- Topics
- International
- Middle East
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Iraq formed a part of the Ottoman Empire from 1534 until it was captured by British forces in 1916. After a period of military government, Britain administered a League of Nations mandate from 1919 until a provisional Iraqi government was established in 1920, and in 1921 Iraq became a kingdom. Initially from 1921 British representation in Iraq was through a high commission, but in 1932 this was converted to an embassy. Diplomatic relations between Britain and Iraq were suspended from 1967 to 1968, following the Arab-Israeli war of 1967, though consular relations continued.
The British embassy in Iraq was closed in January 1991, and diplomatic relations between Britain and Iraq were broken off in February of that year.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7925/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, High Commission and Consulate, Iraq: General Correspondence
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