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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
Catalogue reference: FO 1043
What's it about?
FO 1043
This series contains various papers from the British Embassy in Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia). The first eight files relate to the affairs of named individuals, mainly those of Hajji Khawas Khan. Most of the remainder concern the future of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1043
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia): Various Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1917-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains various papers from the British Embassy in Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia). The first eight files relate to the affairs of named individuals, mainly those of Hajji Khawas Khan. Most of the remainder concern the future of the British Somaliland Protectorate and Italian Trusteeship and Kenyan-Ethiopian border questions.
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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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Amharic and English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Ethiopia, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Abyssinia, 1914-1947
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Ethiopia, 1947-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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104 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1982 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
- Africa
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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/C8342/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia): Various Papers
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