Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Constitutional Department and successors: Registered Files (CON Series)

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Reference: DO 161
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Constitutional Department and successors: Registered Files (CON Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Commonwealth Relations Office's Constitutional Department and its successors. The files deal with constitutional development in the Commonwealth, royal visits and honours, appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, protocol matters, and the formation of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

Date: 1953-1967
Related material:

For later records on Commonwealth protocol matters see FCO 57

Separated material:

For earlier records in the CON file series see DO 35

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CON file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Commonwealth Policy and Planning Department, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, Commonwealth Policy and Planning Department, 1965-1966

Commonwealth Relations Office, Constitutional and Protocol Department, 1964-1965

Commonwealth Relations Office, Constitutional Department, 1947-1964

Physical description: 494 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

1995-2013 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: No further accruals are expected

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