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Series
Foreign Office: Embassy, Poland: General Correspondence
Catalogue reference: FO 688
What's it about?
FO 688
This series contains correspondence of the British embassy in Warsaw, 1919 to 1930, and of the British embassy to the Polish Government in the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1946.
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 688
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office: Embassy, Poland: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1919-1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence of the British embassy in Warsaw, 1919 to 1930, and of the British embassy to the Polish Government in the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1946.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The files for the period 1931 to 1939 were destroyed in Warsaw in 1939.
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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 and Polish
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Poland, 1919-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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100 file(s)
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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
- Europe and Russia
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7989/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Foreign Office: Embassy, Poland: General Correspondence
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