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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
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Series
Foreign Office, Embassy, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo):...
Catalogue reference: FO 1104
What's it about?
FO 1104
This series contains records of the British Embassy at Leopoldville (later Kinshasa).
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 1104
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Belgian Congo): Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the British Embassy at Leopoldville (later Kinshasa).
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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)
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1960-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 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
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 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
- Democracy
- 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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When the Belgian Congo achieved independence in 1960, a British Embassy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo was established in Leopoldville.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8403/
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