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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Communications Department and successors: Registered Files (COM Series)
| Reference: | DO 160 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Communications Department and successors: Registered Files (COM Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains files produced by the Communications Department and its successors relating to Commonwealth communications matters generally (including posts and telecommunications and satellite communications). It includes a few files relating to libraries and publications within the Office as well as files relating to the South East Asian Cable Conference of 1961. |
| Date: | 1955-1966 |
| Related material: |
For later records see FCO 14 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | COM file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Aviation and Telecommunications Department, 1967-1968 Commonwealth Relations Office, Communications Department, 1952-1965 Commonwealth Relations Office, General and Migration Department, 1965-1966 |
| Physical description: | 69 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Responsibility for Commonwealth communications (particularly air, post and telecommunications) was added to the Political Division in 1954, having previously been part of the Southern Rhodesia and Communications Department in the Finance and General Division (in 1952 separate Communications and Central African and Territories Departments were created). Communications were passed to the Establishments and Organisation Division in 1958, and remained there until 1964, when the department was split into (a) and (b) branches. Branch (a), covering library services, was placed in the Mediterranean, South Asia and Defence Division, while branch (b), covering communications matters, was in the Trade Division. The Communications Department was abolished in September 1965, its communications functions passing to the General and Migration Department. In the Commonwealth Office, communications matters were handled by an Aviation and Telecommunications Department. |
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