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Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast:...
Catalogue reference: FO 1107
What's it about?
FO 1107
The files in this series record activities of the UK embassy in the Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and relations with the Ivoirean authorities there.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1107
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: General Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series record activities of the UK embassy in the Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and relations with the Ivoirean authorities there.
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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)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Ivory Coast, 1968-1968
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Ivory Coast, 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 2000 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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Occasional further accruals can be expected
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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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The Ivory Coast became an autonomous republic in the French Community in December 1958, and proclaimed its full independence outside the Community in August 1960. The UK Embassy in Abidjan opened in 1960, prior to which relations were handled through the consulate in Dakar, Senegal. Abidjan ceased to be the political and administrative capital of the Ivory Coast in 1983, when it was replaced by Yamoussoukro, but the UK Embassy remains in Abidjan.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8406/
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