Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): FCO 23

Title: Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)

Date(s): 1966 - 1968

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 344 file(s)

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Office, Atlantic Department, 1967-1968

Administrative/Biographical history: The Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office was abolished upon the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, its functions passing to the Western European Department (matters relating to Ireland) and the North American and Caribbean Department.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, from 1998

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This series contains records of the Atlantic Department of the Commonwealth Office, January 1967 to October 1968, dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Canada, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland.
There is also some correspondence relating to remaining colonial territories in the area, the Associated States and the Bahamas, and correspondence on Commonwealth relations generally with North and Latin America.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

System of arrangement: These records are contained in a Division within FCO: Records of the Political Geographical Departments. Arrangement is by former file reference. Former file reference is G file series.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Conditions governing reproduction:

Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids: PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT)

ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related units of description: For earlier Atlantic Department files see PRO Online Catalogue (PROCAT) series: DO 200 and DO 210.

Publication note:

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

Foreign policy

Decolonization

Colonialism

Economic and social development

Colonial countries

Personal/Corporate names

Places

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Lucia

Grenada

Dominica

Saint Christopher and Nevis

Antigua

Bahamas

Trinidad and Tobago

Jamaica

Guyana

Barbados