Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Information Policy Department: Registered Files (IPD Series)

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Reference: DO 191
Title: Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Information Policy Department: Registered Files (IPD Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Information Policy Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and, from August 1966, the Commonwealth Office. The files include papers on general information policy matters including the inter-departmental committee on overseas information work, the role of the BBC and other broadcasters, and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and some files on the Commonwealth Office library.

Date: 1957-1966
Related material:

For Commonwealth Office Library Department files see FCO 12

Later Information Policy matters can be found in FCO 26

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: IPD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, Information Policy Department, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, Information Policy Department, 1960-1965

Physical description: 267 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Accumulation dates: 1957-1966

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