Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Legation and Consulate, Finland: General Correspondence

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Reference: FO 511
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Legation and Consulate, Finland: General Correspondence
Description:

This series contains general correspondence from the British legation (from 1954, embassy) and consulate in Finland.

Date: 1919-1971
Separated material:

All the volumes of correspondence for the period 1933 to 1936 and one or two earlier volumes were destroyed when the staff left the legation during the Second World War.

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

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Finland, 1968-

Foreign Office, Consulate, Finland, 1866-1941

Foreign Office, Consulate, Finland, 1944-1968

Foreign Office, Embassy, Finland, 1954-1968

Foreign Office, Legation, Finland, 1919-1941

Foreign Office, Legation, Finland, 1944-1954

Physical description: 139 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1982 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

A British legation to Finland was re-established in 1944, and was raised to embassy level in September 1954.

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