Catalogue description Foreign Office: Consulate, Tananarive, Madagascar and Embassy, Malagasy Republic: General Correspondence and Entry Books

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Reference: FO 710
Title: Foreign Office: Consulate, Tananarive, Madagascar and Embassy, Malagasy Republic: General Correspondence and Entry Books
Description:

This series contains general correspondence and entry books of out-letters from the British consulate in Tananarive, Madagascar and, from 1962, files of the British embassy. Also includes registers of births, 1865 to 1868.

Date: 1862-1972
Separated material:

Archives 1921 to 1941 inclusive have been destroyed.

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

Foreign Office, Consulate, Tananarive, Madagascar, 1862-1968

Foreign Office, Embassy, Malagasy Republic, 1962-1968

Physical description: 52 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1962 Foreign Office

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Madagascar became a colony of France in 1896, and British representation on the island from that time until 1960 was at consular level. In 1958 the colony adopted republican status and its name was changed to the Malagasy Republic, which became independent of France in June 1960. British representation was raised to embassy level in 1962. The name Madagascar was re-instated in 1975.

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