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Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Communications Department:...
Catalogue reference: FO 850
What's it about?
FO 850
This series contains records of the Communication Department of the Foreign Office (1936-1964) and the Diplomatic Service Administration Office (1965-1968), dealing with all communication matters between London and Britain's overseas embassy and...
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 850
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Communications Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (Y and DSY series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1936-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Communication Department of the Foreign Office (1936-1964) and the Diplomatic Service Administration Office (1965-1968), dealing with all communication matters between London and Britain's overseas embassy and consular posts in foreign countries and, from 1965, in the Commonwealth and with overseas trade missions.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
From 1947, the Communications Department had the departmental code 'Y'. From 1947 to 1949, records were registered by subject under the numerical code 650 (where, for example, 650 = Communications, General, and 659 = Diplomatic Wireless). From 1950, records were registered according to the new Foreign Office filing system using the departmental letter code and subject letter, as shown:
- Y - Communications, general
- YB - Bag services
- YC - Bag and contents
- YE - Diplomatic wireless, engineers
- YP - Diplomatic wireless, telephones
- YT - Telegrams
- YW - Diplomatic wireless
In 1965, the Communications Department was merged with its counter-part from the Commonwealth Relations Office to form a new Communications Department in the Diplomatic Service Administration Office, and the department code used in registering the files was changed from 'Y' to 'DSY'. A new subject letter was created at this time for the Communications Directorate, DSYH.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For records of the Communications Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office see FCO 19
For further records relating to messengers see FO 351
For earlier records of the Communications Department to 1926 see FO 366
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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DSY file series
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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343 files, photographs and volumes
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1975 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Indexes to this correspondence can be found in FO 409
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8149/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
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Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Communications Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (Y and DSY series)
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