Guide to the Records of the Foreign Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1761-1952

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Summary

Collection number:

Creator:

Foreign Office. Great Britain

Extent:

5908 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material (The National Archives of the UK) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation of items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material at the National Archives of the UK and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Further information on citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/ ).

Availability:

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Background

Content Summary:

The Foreign Office records filmed under the Australian Joint Copying Project are all records created after 1872. They consist of material dealing mainly with the Pacific area and correspondence concerning British and other colonial policies and dependencies in the area.

The finding aid includes the following record groups: General Correspondence from political and other departments

This broad group of records consists chiefly of original despatches and reports from British diplomatic and consular representatives abroad, correspondence with foreign missions in England, etc. The group consists of three categories.

1. General Correspondence before 1906

This group of Series is arranged alphabetically by Series bearing the names of the foreign countries concerned and includes: United States (FO 5), Borneo (FO 12), France (FO 27), Pacific Islands (FO 58), Prussia and Germany (FO 64), and Sardinia (FO 67).

2. General Correspondence after 1906

These Series are not arranged by country, but by headings such as Commercial, Consular and Political and include: Political (FO 371) and Registers of General Correspondence (FO 566).

3. Other Series

The only Class copied from the category is: Great Britain and General (FO 83). Embassy and Consular Archives

Only one Series has been copied by the AJCP in this group of records: France (FO 687). Records of Conference, Committees and Councils

Records relating to the 1919-1920 Peace Conference (FO 608). Records of Private Office and Private Papers

The personal papers of Foreign Secretaries and officials of the Foreign Office (FO 800) including Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles (1841-1920), Sir James Ferguson (1832-1907), Sir Walter Langley (1855-1918), Sir Edward Grey (1862-1933), Henry Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice (1845-1927), James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Rufus Daniel Isaacs (1860-1935), Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937), , Sir Orme Sargent (1884-1962), Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), Sir John Simon (1873-1954), Edward l Wood (1881-1959), James Bryce (1838-1922), Sir Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928) and Ernest Bevin (1881-1951).

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:: Available for access.
Conditions Governing Use:: Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright)