Catalogue description Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors

Details of Division within OS
Reference: Division within OS
Title: Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors
Description:

Records of Ordnance Survey International and predecessors are in OS 46.

Ordnance Survey International Library: International Boundary Archive, OS 62
Date: 1946-1993
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Colonial Office, Directorate of Colonial Surveys, 1946-1957

Colonial Office, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1957-1961

Department of Technical Co-operation, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1961-1964

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Overseas Development Administration, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1970-1985

Ministry of Overseas Development, Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1964-1970

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey International, 1991-

Ordnance Survey, Overseas Surveys Directorate, 1985-1991
Physical description: 1 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Directorate of Colonial Surveys was formed in March 1946 following approval by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in August 1945 for the formation of a central organisation for carrying out geodetic and topographical surveys in the Colonial Empire. Its parent department was the Colonial Office with finance provided under the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts. The name of the Directorate and responsibility for it changed on numerous occasions and finally its name changed in 1991 to Ordnance Survey International, reflecting increasing independence of work for the Overseas Development Agency and a significantly more commercial approach.

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