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Series
Foreign Office: Dominions Information Department: General Correspondence from 1906
Catalogue reference: FO 627
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FO 627
This series contains records of the Dominions Information Department.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 627
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Dominions Information Department: General Correspondence from 1906
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1929-1933
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Dominions Information Department.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For records 1926 to 1928 and 1933 to 1938 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)
- 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)
- Foreign Office, Dominions Information Department, 1926-1933
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 58 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
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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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A Dominions Information Department was established in 1926, shortly after the establishment of a separate Dominions Office, to supply information on foreign policy to the dominions, to deal with inter- imperial relations so far as they affected the Foreign Office and to deal with matters of protocol affecting the foreign relations of the dominions. The department was wound up in 1933, its functions being transferred to the Treaty Department. In 1939 a separate Dominions Intelligence Department was set up with functions similar to those previously carried out by the Dominions Information Department. In 1947 it became the Commonwealth Liaison Department, and this was wound up in 1952.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7928/
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