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Forwards copies of the first three editions of a new newspaper, The Barbados People...
Catalogue reference: CO 321/9/25
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This record is about the Forwards copies of the first three editions of a new newspaper, The Barbados People... dating from 1876 Apr 7 in the series Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- CO 321/9/25
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1876 Apr 7
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Description (What the record is about)
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Forwards copies of the first three editions of a new newspaper, The Barbados People and Windward Islands Gazette, and comments favourably on the stated intention of the publication to 'advocate liberally the policy of Her Majesty's Government and the good of the people, and to avoid the unwholesome indulgence in personal vituperation, to which the other prints of the Island are too prone'.
John Pope Hennessy, Governor in Chief Windward Islands, unnumbered confidential despatch. Folios 160-171.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For the newspapers see items 2-4 in
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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)
- 5058/1876
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9074881/
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CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: CO
Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices,...
Within the series: CO 321
Colonial Office: Windward Islands Original Correspondence
Within the piece: CO 321/9
Despatches: Barbados.
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Forwards copies of the first three editions of a new newspaper, The Barbados People...