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Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier, and Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: General Correspondence
| Reference: | FO 174 |
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| Title: | Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors: Consulate and Legation, Tangier, and Embassy, Rabat, Morocco: General Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains general correspondence of the British consulate general and legation at Tangier and, from 1956, of the British Embassy in Rabat. The correspondence for the years 1907 and 1908 relates to the capture, and negotiations for the release, of Sir Harry Maclean, 'Kaid of Askar'. There is no correspondence for the periods 1897 to 1906 and 1935 to 1941. |
| Date: | 1785-1973 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | Arabic and English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Rabat, Morocco, 1968- Foreign Office, Consulate, Tangier, Morocco, 1785-1968 Foreign Office, Embassy, Rabat, Morocco, 1956-1968 Foreign Office, Legation, Tangier, Morocco, 1785-1956 |
| Physical description: | 409 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1958 Foreign Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The main British representative in Morocco, the Consulate General in charge of the legation, was based at Tangier until Morocco gained its independence from France in 1956. At that time, Rabat became the capital of Morocco, and a British embassy was established there. |
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