Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Private Offices: Various Ministers' and Officials' Papers
Reference: | FCO 73 |
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Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Private Offices: Various Ministers' and Officials' Papers |
Description: |
This series contains private office papers. The records cover a wide range of subjects dealt with by ministers and senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office officials. |
Date: | 1923-1991 |
Arrangement: |
Please note that piece numbers 206-269 were not allocated at the time of the release of pieces 270-360 in July 2009 |
Related material: |
For earlier Colonial Office private office files see CO 967 For earlier Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office private office files see DO 121 For earlier Foreign Office private office files see FO 800 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Physical description: | 872 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office , from 2001 |
Accumulation dates: | Series began in 1968 |
Selection and destruction information: | The files created in private offices mostly contained copies of papers filed in the appropriate departmental registries, and such files do not normally survive selection review. Only where significant papers were not copied to the department, or where significant manuscript additions were made to copied papers, are the files considered for permanent preservation. |
Accruals: | This series will accrue in small regular (usually annual) transfers. Piece 205 was transferred for special release before an earlier batch (pieces 159-204). |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Collections of unregistered files were held by ministers and senior officials in their private offices for reference purposes. On leaving office, ministers' files were passed to the records section for storage and eventual review. Officials' files were sometimes retained in the office by their successors in post for ease of reference. The following ministers and officials are represented in this series:
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