Colonial Office: West India Royal Commission, 1938 to 1939

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): CO 950

Title: Colonial Office: West India Royal Commission, 1938 to 1939

Date(s): 1938 - 1939

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 961 files and volumes

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): West India Royal Commission, 1938-1939

Administrative/Biographical history: The Commission was appointed under the chairmanship of Lord Moyne, to investigate social and economic conditions in Barbados, British Honduras, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Windward Islands, and matters connected herewith.
Evidence was taken in three parts (i) in London, (ii) on tour in the West Indies, and, (iii) in London on return from tour.

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Scope and content: This series contains records of the West India Royal Commission comprising working papers of the Commission, oral and written evidence submitted, and Commission Secretariat circulars to members

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT)

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Related units of description: For records of the West Indies Development and Welfare Organisation, set up as a result of the commission, see PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT) series: CO 1042.

Publication note: The report of the Commission was published in 1945 as Cmd 6607.

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,

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Subjects

Colonialism

Economic and social development

Colonial countries

Personal/Corporate names

West India Royal Commission, 1938-1939

Moyne, Lord, Walter Edward Guinness, 1880-1944

Places

Windward Islands

Trinidad and Tobago

Leeward Islands

Jamaica

Honduras

Barbados