Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho...

Description and record details

Reference	DO 212
Title	Commonwealth Office: East Africa Department: Registered Files, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS Series)
Date	1966-1967
Description	This series contains records of the East Africa Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with the former High Commission territories in southern Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Arrangement	Former file reference
Related material	For later Commonwealth Office files see: For earlier Colonial Office records for these territories see CO 1048 FCO 31 FCO 45 FCO 29
Held by	The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department	BLS, SAB, SAL and SAS file series
Legal status	Public Record(s)
Language	English
Creator	Commonwealth Office, East Africa Department, 1967
Physical description	14 file(s)
Access conditions	Open
Immediate source of acquisition	In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals	No future accruals expected
Administrative/ biographical background	The East Africa Department in the Commonwealth Office dealt with UK and Commonwealth relations with Commonwealth and remaining colonial states in East and Southern Africa. These functions passed to an East and Southern Africa Department in 1967, the title of which then reverted to East Africa Department, before passing to the East Africa Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office upon its formation in October 1968.

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