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

Description and record details

Reference FCO 23
Title Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (G Series)
Date 1966-1968
Description

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.

Arrangement

By former file reference

Related material

For earlier Atlantic Department files see: DO 200 DO 210

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department G file series
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Commonwealth Office, Atlantic Department, 1967-1968

Physical description 344 file(s)
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

from 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Administrative/ biographical background

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.