Catalogue description Records of Conferences, Committees and Councils

Details of Division within FO
Reference: Division within FO
Title: Records of Conferences, Committees and Councils
Description:

Records of conferences, committees and councils relating to British involvement in various issues, mainly negotiations of post war settlements.

Archives of British delegations to some international conferences have been placed in separate series:

  • Congresses of Paris and Vienna, etc. after the Napoleonic Wars, 1813-1822, FO 139
  • Other records of conferences after the Napoleonic Wars, FO 92
  • Peace Conference of 1919 to 1920, FO 373, FO 374, FO 608 and FO 893
  • Lausanne Conference, 1922 to 1923, FO 839
  • Various international conferences of the 1920s in FO 840
  • Potsdam Conference, 1945, FO 934

Records of the International Committee for the Application of the Agreement regarding Non-Intervention in Spain (Plymouth Committee), 1936-1939 are in FO 849, those of the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees (Berenger Committee) and 1938 are in FO 919

Records of the Council of Foreign Ministers are in FO 1086
Date: 1813-1955
Related material:

Some further records of international conferences can be found among Cabinet Office, Division within CAB
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 13 series
Administrative / biographical background:

The Foreign Office participated in international conferences and in multilateral committees or councils. Conferences, in particular were often held in the aftermath of a war in order for treaties to be drawn up. Many twentieth century conferences involved heads of state and chiefs of the armed forces as well as diplomatic representation from the Foreign Office.

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