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Foreign Office

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date: 1782-1968
History: Created on 27 March 1782 when the Secretary of State for the Northern Department became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and his secretariat emerged as the Foreign Office, responsible for the government's foreign affairs functions. On 17 October 1968, the FO merged with the Commonwealth Office and the Diplomatic Service Administration Office to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
Functions, occupations and activities: Government (central)
References: IC; NCA Rules
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C276247
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1878-2022: Records of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors
The National Archives, Kew
FCO
2
1920-1928: Charles Stephen Buckland: Papers
The National Archives, Kew
PRO 30/54
3
1567-2004: Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
The National Archives, Kew
FO
4
1857-1920: Treasury: Books of Out-letters to Foreign Office
The National Archives, Kew
T 12
5
1839-1945: Copies of captured records of the German, Italian and Japanese Governments.
Ministry of Defence, Navy Department
GFM
6
1935-1984: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Records relating to Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (known KGB spies), and subsequent investigations and security arrangements
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 158
7
1922-1998: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Protocol and Conference Department: Registered Files (TP and TX Series)
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 57
8
1923-2007: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Private Offices: Various Ministers' and Officials' Papers
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 73
9
1941-1945: Government Code and Cypher School, Foreign Office and General Post Office: Maintenance of Foreign Office Intercept (Y) Stations: Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
HW 55
10
1962-1974: Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Crown Agents; Loan Agreements with Sovereign States
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 165
11
1963: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Victoria Falls Conference on dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Unregistered Material
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 163
12
1939: Personal papers of Major Christopher Ronald Spear, Military Attaché to the British Embassy, China 1939
The National Archives, Kew
FO 1121
13
1876-1954: Photographs Extracted from FO series
The National Archives, Kew
CN 13
14
1903: Semi-official correspondence of Gilbert Mellor, British Agent to the Commission
The National Archives, Kew
FO 310/9
15
1878-1951: Colonial Office: Cyprus, Original Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
CO 67
16
1878-1951: Colonial Office: Cyprus Register of Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
CO 512
17
1932-1965: Colonial Office: Africa: Original Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
CO 847
18
1950-1979: Australian Royal Commission into United Kingdom Nuclear Weapons Testing in Australia: photocopies of documents made available to the Commission by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The National Archives, Kew
FCO 1
19
1793-1967: Foreign Office: Embassy and Consulates, Austria (formerly Austro-Hungarian Empire): General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 120
20
1785-1973: Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier, and Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 174
21
1859-1972: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy and Consulates, Japan: General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 262
22
1791-1807: Pierrepont Papers
The National Archives, Kew
FO 334
23
1669-1911: Foreign Office and predecessors: Tunis, Tunisia, French North Africa (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 335
24
1719-1967: Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Chief Clerk's Department and successors: Records
The National Archives, Kew
FO 366
25
1906-1966: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966
The National Archives, Kew
FO 371
26
1915-1919: Foreign Office: Prisoners of War and Aliens Department: General Correspondence from 1906
The National Archives, Kew
FO 383
27
1831-1885: Hammond Papers
The National Archives, Kew
FO 391
28
1840-1929: Cromer Papers
The National Archives, Kew
FO 633
29
1861-1939: Foreign Office: Chinese Secretary's Office, Various Embassies and Consulates, China: General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 682
30
1818-1948: Foreign Office: Consulate, Papeete, French Polynesia: General Correspondence and Various Registers
The National Archives, Kew
FO 687
31
1862-1972: Foreign Office: Consulate, Tananarive, Madagascar and Embassy, Malagasy Republic: General Correspondence and Entry Books
The National Archives, Kew
FO 710
32
1765-1876: Southern Department and Foreign Office: Consulate, Bilbao, Spain: General Correspondence and Letter Books
The National Archives, Kew
FO 729
33
1824-1968: Foreign Office, Private Offices: Various Ministers' and Officials' Papers
The National Archives, Kew
FO 800
34
1899-1938: Foreign Office: Consulate Archives, Liberia: Registers of Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 820
35
1900-1970: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Consulate, Alexandria, Egypt: General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 891
36
1956-1963: Foreign Office: Legation, Hungary: General Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
FO 1087
37
1906-1920: Foreign Office: Card Indexes to Correspondence from 1906 to 1920
The National Archives, Kew
FO 1111
38
1782-1845: Home Office: Foreign Office Correspondence
The National Archives, Kew
HO 32
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
Diplomatic Service Administration Office
Successor/Predecessor
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2
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Successor/Predecessor
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