Catalogue description Colonial Office: Nigeria Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 583
Title: Colonial Office: Nigeria Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains original correspondence relating to Nigeria.
Date: 1912-1951
Related material:

For further correspondence see CO 554

For earlier correspondence relating to British Cameroon see CO 649

For earlier correspondence relating to Northern Nigeria see CO 446

For earlier correspondence relating to Southern Nigeria see CO 520
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 318 files and volumes
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers of this correspondence see CO 763

Administrative / biographical background:

The colony of Nigeria was formed in 1914 by the merger of the colony and protectorate of Southern Nigeria and the protectorate of Northern Nigeria. After 1922 British Cameroon was governed as part of Nigeria.

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