War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Trinidad Miscellanea,1804-1945

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CO 300

Title: War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Trinidad Miscellanea,1804-1945

Date(s): 1804 - 1945

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 156 volume(s)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Office, West Indian Department A, 1966-1967 Commonwealth Office, West Indian Department B, 1966-1968 Colonial Office, West Indian Department, 1898-1966

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1981

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This series contains miscellanea from Trinidad. Sub-series of note include the following:
newspapers, reports of protectors of slaves and blue books of statistics, shipping returns etc. No description is available at sub-series level.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT)

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean, Black, Asian

Specific group:

Subjects

Colonialism

Slavery

Personal/Corporate names

Places

Trinidad and Tobago