Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office: South Africa High Commission Territories: Registered Files (BBS Series)

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Details of DO 157
Reference: DO 157
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office: South Africa High Commission Territories: Registered Files (BBS Series)
Description:

This series contains files relating to the Commonwealth Relations Office administration of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland between 1960 and 1961. The files were produced by the Central African and Territories Department (1956-1959) and the Southern Africa Department (1959-1961) of the Africa and General (1956-1960) and the Africa (1960-1962) Divisions of the Commonwealth Relations Office.
Date: 1959-1963
Separated material:

For later files in the BBS file series see CO 1048

For earlier records in the BBS file series see DO 35
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in The National Archives: BBS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Relations Office, Central African and Territories Department, 1953-1959

Commonwealth Relations Office, Southern Africa Department, 1959-1961
Physical description: 66 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

After November 1961, responsibility for the High Commission Territories returned to the Colonial Office and the Southern Africa Department was abolished.

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