Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Kenya: Registered Files

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Reference: DO 226
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and successors: High Commission and Consular Archives, Kenya: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains records produced in the office of the UK High Commissioner to Kenya.

Date: 1963-1975
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1963-1966

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, High Commission, Kenya, 1968-

Physical description: 17 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Custodial history: Records of the Commonwealth Relations Office passed to the custody of the Commonwealth Office when it was created in August 1966, and thence to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968.
Accumulation dates: File series began in 1963
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Acquisition Policy criterion 2.2.1.3, documenting UK relations with Kenya after independence.
Accruals: Occasional further accruals expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

Kenya achieved independence within the Commonwealth in December 1963, and from that date the UK representative in Kenya was the High Commissioner.

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