Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)

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Reference: DO 212
Title: Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Date: 1966-1967
Arrangement:

Former file reference

Related material:

For later Commonwealth Office files see:

For earlier Colonial Office records for these territories see CO 1048

FCO 31

FCO 45

FCO 29

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

Commonwealth Office, East Africa Department, 1967-1967

Physical description: 14 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The East Africa Department in the Commonwealth Office dealt with UK and Commonwealth relations with Commonwealth and remaining colonial states in East and Southern Africa. These functions passed to an East and Southern Africa Department in 1967, the title of which then reverted to East Africa Department, before passing to the East Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office upon its formation in October 1968.

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