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| Name of record series | Number of boxes | Estimated linear metres | Description | Estimated number of items | Format | Date range |
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| FCO Cartographic and Map Section numerous maps | 2,186 | 295.11 | A substantial eclectic collection comprising primarily of geographic maps typically with political, economic or strategic emphasis that are mostly printed on translucent paper from A4 up to approximately A0+ in paper size, with diagrams and building floor plans, all mostly in black and white with the exceptional item in colour. Earlier 1970s maps in this collection appear to have been produced by or commissioned for the FCO Research Department, maps have been numbered up as pieces 1051 to 1922 (pieces 1-1050 were destroyed); the Julian Walker Collection has also been listed, and a detailed workbook of maps is attached. All the loose material in this collection has been individually indexed commencing with the references FCO 18 / 1172 and run sequentially through to FCO 18/1869. There is also an additional large tied bundle of translucent maps printed on A0+ sized paper | 175 | Loose printed maps plus one large tied bundle (A0+ paper size) | 1941-1991 |
| FCO maps and plans: numerous | 96 | 12.96 | A varied assortment of maps and plans, predominately copies of Ordnance Survey maps annotated to highlight various features most notably wireless stations and masts. There is a small collection of mapping produced by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) depicting various countries. The maps are generally acetates, with smaller quantities of paper, bromide, dyeline and impregnated paper 1 acetate Ordnance Survey 1-inch map, sheet 146, revised 1965-66 and annotated to show positions of wireless telegraph stations; 1 acetate Ordnance Survey 1-inch map, sheet 133 (1968); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey 1-inch map, sheet 134 (reprinted 1960); 1 bromide Ordnance Survey supply of unpublished survey information at scale 1:2500 showing Hanslope Park wireless station (1974); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ28SE (1974); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ28SW at a scale of 1:10000 (1975); 1 acetate extract from Ordnance Survey map, at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 impregnated paper map extract from Ordnance Survey map, (undated); 1 acetate extract from Ordnance Survey map, showing Hanslope Park at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, annotated to show Crown Land and acreage (undated); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, SP 8245, showing Hanslope Park wireless station and Linford Wood at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey map, showing unpublished survey information of Hanslope Park wireless station at a scale of 1:2500, annotated (1982); 2 bromide plans of the Whitehall area, drawing number 11B produced by Directorate of Lands, Ministry of Works (1960), based on Ordnance Survey sheets TQ2980, TQ2979, TQ3079, TQ3080 at a scale of 1:1250; 1 acetate composite of Ordnance Survey maps sheets showing Arbroath, Inverbride, Forfar and Brechin; 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map of the Harrow and Bushey area of London; 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey map, plan SP76449 showing Yardley Gobian area (1970); map showing annual number of thunderstorm days in England, Scotland and Wales produced and published by British Studies Institution; 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ18NE (1967); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ19SW (1968); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ19SE (1975); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ28NW (1968); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ28SW (1975); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ28SE (1974); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ27NE (1975); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ28NW (1968); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ28SE (1974); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ27NE (1975); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ18NE (1967); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey 6-inch map sheet TQ19SW, note that part of right edge cut off (1968); 1 acetate record of survey for central transmitter station (plan) showing site layout and sub-surface cable layout at a scale of 1:200, and includes SBM location plans (June 1987); 1 impregnated paper map showing site of scheduled deserted medieval village, parcels of land and acreage (undated); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey supply of unpublished survey information at a scale of 1:2500, labelled as SER 109/3 and annotated with a coordinate grid system; 1 paper Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, sheet TQ28NW (1968); 1 paper Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, sheet TQ19SW (1968); 1 paper Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, sheet TQ18NE (1967); 1 dyeline Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ19SE at a scale of 1:10000, note that bottom edge has been cut off (1975); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ19SE at a scale of 1:10000 (1975); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ19SW at a scale of 1:10000 (1968); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ28SW at a scale of 1:10000 (1975); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ27NE at a scale of 1:10000 (1975); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ18NE at a scale of 1:10000 (1967); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, sheet TQ28NW at a scale of 1:10000 (1968); 1 acetate composite of Ordnance Survey map, Provisional Edition, sheets TQ18 and TQ19 at a scale of 1:25000 (1968); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey 1-inch map, sheet 147 (1968); 1 impregnated paper map of the world, drawing number 592 (size 40 inches x 27 inches]; 1 impregnated outline map of British Isles with lines of longitude and latitude at a scale of 1:3000000, traced by E Hanley (1942); 1 impregnated paper map of Northern Europe with Hanslope, Thurso, Forfar, Gilnahirk, Wymondham, Bridgwater and St Erith direction finding stations marked (undated); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, plan SP8245A showing Hanslope Park, with trace overlay attached annotated to show wireless masts, at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, plan SP8145 showing Hanslope Park, with trace overlay attached annotated to show wireless masts, at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, plan SP8146 showing Hanslope Park, with trace overlay attached annotated to show wireless masts, at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, plan SP8246 showing Hanslope Park, with trace overlay attached annotated to show wireless masts, at a scale of 1:2500 (1987); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map, plan SP8245A showing Hanslope Park wireless telegraph station at scale of 1:2500 (1987); 2 acetate maps of Ordnance Survey plan SP8146A, Revised 1987, at a scale of 1:2500; 2 acetate Ordnance Survey maps, plan SP8246, showing Park Farm and Tathall End, at a scale of 1:2500 (undated); 1 acetate Ordnance Survey map of West London, Second Series, Revision of 1968, sheet 176 (1974); 1 acetate map of Turks and Caicos Islands - Turks Island, E8113 series, first edition (DOS 209), sheet 14A at a scale of 1:10000, published by Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) (1968); 1 acetate map of Turks and Caicos Islands - Turks Island, E8113 series, second edition 1968 (DOS 209), sheet 14B at a scale of 1:10000, published by Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) (1973); 1 acetate map of Lesser Antilles – Anguilla with Dog Island and Scrub Island, E803 series, 4th edition, at a scale of 1:30000, published by Military Survey (1972); 1 coloured paper map of St Helena, G891 series, 4th Edition, at a scale of 1:25000, printed for Directorate of Overseas Surveys (DOS) by Ordnance Survey (1974); 1 paper map showing FCO departmental responsibilities and overseas representation, 9th Edition, produced by Cartographic Section, Research Department, FCO (1980); 1 paper Geographical Section General Staff (GSGS) map, 1853A series, 2nd Edition, at a scale of 2.5 inches to 1 mile, printed by Ordnance Survey (1941); 4 paper copies of composite of Ordnance Survey maps, sheets TQ27NE, TQ28SW and TQ28SE, labelled STD 1105/42/2 (1975), 4 paper copies of composite of Ordnance Survey maps, sheets TQ28NW, TQ28NE and TQ19SE, labelled STD 1105/42/1 (1975); 2 acetate copies of extract from Property Services Agency (PSA) site plan, drawing number 1759/AK1/01 at a scale of 1:500; 9 acetate maps of various regions of the world (Africa, Asia, South America, Caribbean); 10 acetate maps - copies of published maps of Central America, South America (central), Central China, Middle East, South America, Australasia, Europe, Asia and Africa; 3 acetate maps depicting FCO local communications - world disposition of HFSSB radio telephone terminal equipment in Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, South Asia, South America and the Caribbean (drawing number EC 200/1) | 96 | rolled maps and plans | 1942-1987 |
| Bonn, Berlin, Bahrain, Stockholm, Pretoria, Athens, Dublin, Muscat | 3 | 0.41 | A small collection of files returned from posts on a variety of subjects LIVE OAK; zonal executive instruction No.68 detention of dangerous persons; control of Berlin population in an emergency; Rhodesia secret negotiations; Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas; UK and Ireland security liaison; IRA Cease fire; Dhofar Rebellion; implementation of Allied Control Authority Law No 43 in Berlin production of implements of war; reporting on armed forces; development of nuclear weapons by additional countries up to 1980; flights into the Berlin Control Zone; British intelligence and security exchanges with the German authorities; JIC Germany meetings, papers and correspondence; air operations Operation Nylon; Operation Manoeuvre; UK Defence Policy; Defence review | 18 | files, loose documents | 1951, 1982, 1971, 1973-1974 |
| Material from the former Head of Archives' secure cabinet | 1 | 0.14 | Includes Guidance notes; annual budget details; finding aids, etc | 8 | files, loose documents | Not set |
| shelf 2 - trays ; loose papers | 1 | 0.14 | Archives management papers; list of Colonial Office Special Care Papers in cupboard 5498, Room 314; Proactive Disclosure Board; Sandline ; President Cardoso's visit to the UK; | 8 | files, loose documents | Not set |
| shelf 3 - boxes of folders | 4 | 0.54 | 1. Personal copies (other than Access) (1983-1986) 4. research pieces; 3. contributions to seminars, conferences etc; 2. miscellaneous -useful minuting, including security reports; 5. General Election Guidance; 6. Press briefing on Records; 7; Bethhel and Greenhill and Gladwyn - Russia Committee; 8. PQs and submissions; 9. Hansard Extracts; 10. Cabinet Office letter of 13.2.1992 (records relating to security and intelligence); box 2 11. disclosure of information by Col Harrison re WWII ops in Iran; 12. Work of the SRU; 13. copies of assorted pps; 14. Atomic Blanket; 15; Annual inventories of records branch holdings; 16. DWS/CTMS records; 17. Former Ministers - Private Office Papers - lists of and guidance 18. Head of records Branch - Handover Notes; 20. UK Public Records - Law Officer's Opinions and Concomitant Action; 21. LRD Objectives; 22. Falkland Islands Records- includes Peter Beck articles and defensive brief; Box 3 - 32. Crown Privilege; 33. Control Commission for Germany (CCG) Allied Commission for Austria (ACA) - includes Legal Adviser's opinion on `rule of assembly'; loose papers; ; 38. Subhas Chandra Bose; 23. Dealings with Research Department; 24. Hess; 25. Australian War Crimes; 26. Nazi War Criminals in Britain; 27. Minister and Massacres - papers relating to the repatriation of Cossacks; 28. Parliamentary Commission for Administration; 29. Monhke Case- Nazi witnesses v British soldiers (press cuttings) 30. Personal files - weeding and disposal; 31 Historical Advisory Committee Box 4 - inspection and reviews of LRD | 32 | files, loose documents | Not set |
| shelf 4 - history of DWS ; PWE History | 1 | 0.14 | PWE History; recruitment material; lists of Aden Administration files; lists of India Office Library files; Red Book; FCO Record Releases | 8 | files, loose documents | Not set |
| shelf 4 - Hong Kong Department files | 5 | 0.68 | Hong Kong: contingency planning | 40 | files, loose documents | Not set |
| Bottom Shelf miscellaneous material | 1 | 0.14 | Lonhro; loose papers relating to visits abroad by members of the Royal Family and other Royal issues; sensitivity reviewers' contracts; Robert Maxwell; Iraq and the Gulf; Olympics Bid; | 8 | floppy disc | Not set |
| A collection of numerous unrelated documents | 1 | 0.14 | Record Book of HBM Consulate General Chicago; Certificate as to Registration of Deaths at the Former Vice Consulate at Omaha. Letter dated 29 April 1968 from the Ruler of Abu Dhabi to Abu Dhabi Oil Co.(Japan)Ltd covering Concession Agreement and Operating Agreement for Abu Dhabi Marine Area Covering 4416 Square Kilometres; Agreement dated 14 May 1968 between the Ruler of Abu Dhabi and Mitsubishi Mining Co Ltd, Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, Mitsubishi Oil Co Ltd, Mitsubishi Petrochemical Co Ltd.; Letter written in Arabic stamped as being received on 16 January 1968 by the British Political Agency Abu Dhabi; Brussels Embassy; North east Atlantic Fisheries Convention; Migration and Visa Department file GV 15022T on the Menacham Begin, former leader of the Jewish Irgun terrorist organisation; 1954- 1958 Local Defence Committee (Persian Gulf) bound volume of papers and minutes. | 8 | files, loose papers | Not set |
| Allied Control Commission (Germany); index cards (1) | 4 | 0.54 | Drawers of staff records 1940s-1950, contains names, grades, salaries (a few marked "Germany", "Austria") | 6 | Index cards | 1940-1959 |
| Allied Control Commission (Germany); index cards | 24 | 3.24 | Drawers of records of overseas temporary staff 1940s-1950 | 2449 | Index cards | 1940-1959 |
| Allied Control Commission (Germany); index cards | 24 | 3.24 | Drawers contains a few unestablished and established British staff employed by Control Commission of Germany | 12 | Index cards | 1940-1959 |
| unknown index cards | 2 | 0.27 | Two boxes containing unknown index cards | 2 | Index cards | 1940-1959 |
| Allied Control Commission (Germany); index cards | 18 | 2.43 | Marked "Control Commission Index", believed to be an index of staff employed by the Allied Control Commission (Germany); index cards include names and years (of birth?), first drawer contains similar but crossed out (deceased?) | 173 | Index cards | 1940-1959 |
| FCO personnel; unknown nominal index | 44 | 5.94 | Drawers of records possibly of Foreign Office personnel, includes (staff?) number, name, date of entry to service and in some cases, a home address | 594 | Index cards | 1947-1950 |
| Research Department subject index cards | 30 | 4.05 | Subject heading index with "SEE" and "SEE ALSO" references; number reference in first column is either 48 or 49 followed by a second column of numbers, four-drawer cabinet labelled "index to Print", one drawer appears to be Print produced by Research Department and includes an index to Valedictory speeches, research notes, country assessments, 1st & 2nd impressions (by ambassadors and others), annual reviews of country, memoranda. 1970; also indexed by individual and country. Lists by year, file number and print number; 2 further drawers are labelled "before 1970" and "1950-1968" | 72 | Index cards | 1950-1970 |
| Nominal indexes and circulars | 8 | 1.08 | One cabinet marked "nominal" which may be consular cases; 2nd cabinet marked "Circulars" which is an index to FO/FCO Circulars 1965-1994 | 72 | Index cards | 1965-1994 |
| Staff lists for the commonwealth, CO, CRO, diplomatic service, dominion office and foreign office 1852 - 2005 | 70 | 9.45 | Substantial collection of annual staff lists of staff covering the period 1852 up to 2005, who worked in each of the following: the colonial office (CO); the colonial relations office (CRO); the dominions office; the commonwealth office, the foreign office (FO) or latterly within the diplomatic service Colonial office lists (1862 - 1966 incomplete); Colonial relations office (1951 - 1966); Commonwealth office yearbook (1967 - 1991); Diplomatic service list (1966 - 2005 incomplete); Dominion office (1926 - 1940); Foreign office lists (1852 - 1965); | 238 | Bound volume | 1852-2005 |
| Colonial Office staff records registers | 4 | 0.54 | Set of eight mini bound volumes listing staff file reference details including dates of birth. Date range of this series is un-known. Earliest date of birth recorded in the registers is 1877 whilst the most recent is 1927. | 8 | Bound volume | Not set |
| Regional Learning and Development Coordination Conference | 3 | 0.41 | Papers relating to the annual Regional Learning and Development Conference, the Springboard Women's Development Programme and related budget and expenditure matters. | 100 | files, loose papers | 2006-2009 |
| Index to Secret Papers | 1 | 0.14 | Index to correspondence classified secret and top secret | 1 | bound volume | 1921-1923 |
| Index to Green Papers | 1 | 0.14 | Index to correspondence classified secret and top secret | 3 | bound volumes | 1934 -1940 |
| Index to correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | index to correspondence | 96 | bound volumes | 1920-1953 |
| Foreign Office Subject Index | 4 | 0.54 | index to correspondence | 2420 | Microform | 1952-1981 |
| Microfilm spools; the labelling on the spools indicates that they may be subject indexes (or possibly nominal indexes) | 1 | 0.14 | Unknown | 154 | reel cassettes | 1973,1979-1981 |
| Central Index - list of Departments and relevant Filing Guides | 1 | 0.14 | Central Index - list of Departments and relevant Filing Guides | 2 | bound volumes | 1967-1969 |
| Central Index - list of Departments and relevant Filing Guides and Country and Special Series of Code Numbers Used in Registries | 1 | 0.14 | Central Index - list of Departments and relevant Filing Guides and Country and Special Series of Code Numbers Used in Registries | 2 | bound volumes | 1970-1971 |
| Central List - List of Main Headings | 1 | 0.14 | Central List - List of Main Headings | 18 | bound volumes | 1967-1971 |
| Index of Conference Unit (KS) files | 1 | 0.14 | Index of Conference Unit (KS) files | 1 | docket book | 1976-1977 |
| Index of DP, DS, WDN and MEN files | 1 | 0.14 | Index of DP, DS, WDN and MEN files | 1 | docket book | 1975 |
| British Embassy; Beirut | 1 | 0.14 | Register of files created by BE Beirut; Nominal Index; registers of Inward and Outward letters and telegrams; Contract; Financial agreement; Finding aides relating to correspondence and files used by BE Beirut and papers relating to the construction of the Karatchou to Tartus oil pipeline. Some documents in Arabic. Includes a FCO confidential Print titled `a collection of oil agreements and connected documents relating to the Persian Gulf Sheikdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman'. | 15 | docket book | 1977-1982 |
| Index to Chief Clerk Correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | Index to Chief Clerk Correspondence | 9 | bound volumes | 1921-1929 |
| Review of Chief Clerk papers | 1 | 0.14 | Lists of papers retained after review | 100 | loose papers | 1920-1945 |
| Filing Guides | 1 | 0.07 | Lists of XF files | 1 | loose papers | 1946-1959 |
| Filing Guides | 1 | 0.07 | Lists of XA and XC files | 1 | loose papers | 1946-1964 |
| Admin Indexes | 1 | 0.14 | Locally engaged staff `C' boxes; destruction registers; lists of Post Names; Berlin Legal files list; published material; index to circular despatches; Notes on Estimates; UK Presidency - selected documents (1986); Commonwealth Precedents (1989); Meeting of Commonwealth Senior Officials, 2000 - summary record of proceedings and background papers; Files which have been destroyed (D.O.) New Years Honours 1960 -1963 ; Material seen by Visitors; Word list for computer aided subject index of the FCO (1968/69); Migration and Visa Department file list (1995 - 2004); A Manual of Commonwealth Records 1903-1953; Selection of File Titles (A guide for Registry Officers); List of FCO Departments (1969-1993); Subject Index of Departmental responsibilities 1980,1982; Abbreviations; Diplomatic Reports - Holy Writ: Dictionary of Terms and Phrases; Guide to Departmental Designations 1944-1985; Useful information; Manual of Commonwealth records; collection of background papers for reference by the Archives team; Departmental Designations; Central Index - list of main headings (1967-1968); Filing Guide and Indexing Instructions; Diplomatic Service Filing Guide ; Departments History and Filing Guide (1970); Political Filing Guide (1968); Colonial Office - Code of Procedure Part IV - Registry Manual (1956); Geographical and Subject file Numbers (1944-1952); Colonial Office Registry Numbers (1929-1934); Specimen Travel Documents and Certificate of Identity; Diplomatic Service Estimates (1969); papers relating to the kidnapping of Alex Collett used in connection with a request under the Code of Practice on Access to Information. Includes redacted copies of information provided; Foreign Office filing guide Pt 1(1964); Diplomatic Service Filing Guide (1967, 1975, 1992, | 25 | Bound volumes | 1967- 1983, 1986-1992 |
| Loose material from various FCO departments | 1 | 0.14 | Migration and Nationality Department Filing Guide (1971); Review of Overseas Representation Report by CPRS (1977); Services Department - India: Post Partition Files relating Individuals (stored at Hayes); Foreign Office Order Book - Procedure Notes (1951); Commonwealth Relations Office - Staff Regulations (1955); Overseas Students Trust and Fund for International Student Co-operation; List of claims in respect of loss, damage or injury suffered by British subjects and interests during the Spanish Civil War (1937-1938); Individual Claims numbers 147-469; Shipping Claims Analysis; Foreign Office Estimates (1940-1946; General Registrar's Office publication `Abstract of arrangements respecting registration of births, deaths and marriages (1952); Consular Relations within the Commonwealth- report and record of the meeting of Commonwealth Officials (1972); Review of Overseas Representation (1968-1969); Index to Circular Despatches (1940-1950); Report of the Committee on Representational Service Overseas (1962-1963); Review of Overseas Representation -Interim report by CPRS (1976); Review of Consular Services (1977); Inspection report of the FCO Registry System ((1974); Foreign Services Filing Guide (1949, 1955-1956); Filing Guide for the Divisions dealing with Administrative Papers (1965); Filing Guide to the Foreign Office Territorial Sections (1949); The `X' filing system (1948); Foreign Office Index - Guide to the method of indexing correspondence and specimen headings, with explanatory notes; Registration of correspondence at HM Missions Abroad (1927); Materials on the Gibraltar Question (1704-1912), volumes 1 and 2 (1967); Committee on Representational Service Overseas - Minutes of the Main Committee (1962-1963; Committee on Representational Service Overseas, Minutes of the Sub Committees (1962-1963); Structure of FCO and CRO Departments, including Support Service; and accommodation planning for the Main Building (1966); CRO -Digest of Office Procedure - Part D Special Procedures and Miscellaneous Instructions 91963); Establishment and Organisation Departmental Practice (1957); Correspondence respecting Yugoslavia and Albania (Parts 1-23)(1947-1969); Conflicting Anglo American Claims to Sovereignty in the Central Pacific Volumes 1 and 2 (1953); CRO Inward Register 2 EA (East Africa) (1964-1966); Further Correspondence respecting France (Parts 10-15, 18); BE Moscow/Russian Embassy London History from 1929 (1998); Commonwealth Sources in British Official Records (1985); FCO Political Filing Guide (1968); Foreign Services filing guide (1949, 1955-1956); Foreign Office Filing Guide (1953- 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964); Foreign Office Filing Guide - supplementary list of Groups for Commodity Filing (1954); Diplomatic Service Filing Guide (1967); DSAO Filing Guide (1966); Filing Guide for Consular Posts (1954); departmental sub divisions - classified according to territories and subjects, with their respective index letters (1951-1952); FO Index Guide to the Method of Indexing Correspondence and list of specimen headings and explanatory notes (1928); Foreign Service Commercial (Trade Promotion) Filing Guide (1964); Small Posts Review (1967); Open Government Code of Practice on Access to Information (1997); Efficiency Unit Scrutiny - The Need to Know - Research and Analysis Department, Library and Records Department Report; Functions and Organisation of the FO; Description of the Organisation, Functions and responsibilities of Archives Department; Departmental Designations, Cora code and Postcodes(1951-1976); File of Forms for Printed Records (1923); Guide to the method of indexing correspondence (undated); Archives Department Organisation and Procedural Instructions (undated); Annual return of Inward Correspondence (1826-1981); Reorganisation of the Foreign Office Registries (1918); Migration and Visa Department Best Practice - Entry Clearing Work (undated); Review of entry Clearance Policy (1982); Rayner review of Running Costs (FCO) Final Draft Report(1982); Staying Ahead - efficiency Scrutiny of Training in the Diplomatic Wing (1991); Guide to the functions and organisations of the Allied Control Authority and Control Commission Germany (British element)(1945); Financial Management Information Study - examination of financial information flows in and between FCO departments and posts overseas ; FCO Processing Manual; Visas - The Boilanic Report. Review of Immigration Sections and the working of the New Visa Regime in the India Sub continent and Sri Lanka; Report of the Legal and Procedural Arrangements between Hong Kong and China in civil and commercial matters (1982); petition to The Queen from Hong Kong and Kowloon Joint Kai Fong Research Council and the Council of Kai Fong Associations in respect of the future of the Governor (SIR MURRAY McLEHOSE) (Chinese language with English translation; General Instruction for HM's Foreign Service (1949); Belgium Language Crisis (1976,1968,1987); Correspondence respecting Belgium and Luxembourg, Part 23 (1968); Netherlands - historical background papers to Dutch policy etc (1942-1943); Correspondence respecting France, Parts 1 -20 (1947-1966); Correspondence respecting Antarctica Parts 1-10, (1947-1958); Antarctica Cases UK v Chile (1955) and UK v Argentina (1955); Territorial Claims in the Antarctic (1945); British Antarctica - application by HMG relating to encroachments by the Governments of Argentina in the British Antarctic (1955): Comparative chronology summary of British, Argentine and Chilean activities in connection with claims to the Falkland Island Dependencies, 1947-1952 (1953); Further correspondence respecting Polar Territorial Claims (1931-1934, 1937-1941); Imperial Conference 1926- British policy in the Antarctic (E81); Imperial Conference 1930 - Committee on Polar Questions (E(30)38), Policy in the Arctic (E3019); Territorial Claims in the Arctic to 1930; US `Special War' in South Viet Nam (MFA DR Vietnam publication); Suez Canal Users Association Executive Group Meetings and memoranda (1957); Supplementary report on Forests and Forestry in Iraq (1957); Report on the Family Budget Inquiry in Bagdad; collection of FCO Confidential Prints | 150 | Bound volumes | 1886- 2000 |
| British High Commission Nairobi | 1 | 0.14 | Files and related papers relating to the death of Dr Robert Ouko | 7 | files. Bound volume, loose papers | Not set |
| Microfilmed collection of confidential print | 2 | 0.27 | Confidential Print to 1912: United States of America, edited by Clive Parry, LLD., microfilmed in 1982 | 260 | Microform | 1802-1912 |
| Register of Correspondence | 4 | 0.54 | Registers of Inward and Outward correspondence for ESD papers | 26 | loose material | 1994-1997 |
| Register of Correspondence and Files | 1 | 0.14 | Register of Files and Inward correspondence with unidentified area | 6 | loose material | 1997-1999 |
| Register of Files and Correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | List of 1996 Chancery files and Inward Correspondence | 1 | tagged bundle | 2000 |
| Register of Correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | Register of Outward Correspondence with Information Systems Division placed on IOE files | 1 | 0 | 1993 |
| Registers of Correspondence and Files | 1 | 0.14 | Register of Inward and Outward Correspondence placed on IOD files | 1 | bundle of loose ppapers | 1994 |
| Registers of Correspondence and Files | 1 | 0.14 | Inward Registers and Registers of Files | 4 | ? | 1994 |
| Register of File Numbers | 1 | 0.14 | Register of LRR 322 files concerned with security vetting and vetting of manuscripts | 2 | plastic wallets | 1972-1996 |
| List of files | 1 | 0.14 | List of NE-NE, SED and SAD (Sri Lanka) files | 3 | file binder, plastic wallets | 1972 -1993 |
| Registers of Correspondence | 2 | 0.27 | file registers and correspondence registers for various Registries | 10 | loose bundles | 1993 |
| File List and Registers of Correspondence for Information Handling Review (YPA) | 1 | 0.14 | File lists and Inward Register for YEL files | 6 | tagged bundles | 1987-1989 |
| Joint Assistance Unit (JAU) Intake Lists | 1 | 0.14 | Lists of JAU and JAU subseries files sent to Hanslope Park | 2 | lever arch files | 2000 |
| BE Bonn | 1 | 0.14 | Film of demonstrations outside BE Bonn on 22 August 1967 made by West German correspondent H Bargmann. Reel container is marked `Peking 1967' | 1 | 16mm film reel | 1967 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Census for 1901 and 1921 | 1 | bound volume | 1901-1911 |
| Register of Files | 1 | 0.14 | Register of LG series files | 1 | docket book | 1991 |
| Belem Consulate (Brazil) | 1 | 0.14 | Notes of Protest | 1 | bound volume | 1956-1985 |
| Gibraltar | 1 | 0.14 | Subject Nominal Index | 1 | tagged docket book | 1992 |
| Register of Correspondence | 2 | 0.27 | Register of Incoming and Outgoing Correspondence with Communications Operations Department placed in YF series files | 9 | ring binders | 1985-1989 |
| Index of Correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | Index of Cases before the Court and Commission | 1 | ring binder (large) | 1967-1983 |
| loose items probably relating to a FOI request in 2005 for information referring to Nichols Biwott and his involvement in the murder of Dr Ouko | 1 | 0.14 | unregistered file marked Troon Report containing copies of Detective Troon's report and interim report. Report to the Parliamentary Select Committee Investigating the Death of the Late Hon Dr Robert Ouko submitted on behalf of the Hon Bicholas Biwott, Volume 2; folder marked `Biwott - Depts 200's'containing results of a 2005 search for papers referring to Biwott | 3 | bound volume, file, folder | 1990-2005 |
| Index of Files | 5 | 0.68 | Index of FCO Subject Files | 34 | ring binders | Not set |
| Index of Files | 5 | 0.68 | Indexes of FCO Administation files | 34 | ring binders, computer prints, | 1967-1988 |
| Index | 3 | 0.41 | Card Index to FO916 | 2000 | index cards for each year | 1942-1946 |
| Peace Treaty | 1 | 0.14 | Copy of the Treaty of Peace between The Allied and Associated Powers and Germany and Treaty between France and Great Britain respecting assistance to France in the event of unprovoked aggression by Germany signed at Versailles, June 28 1919 | 1 | Book | Not set |
| The Colonial Military Forces in the Second World war | 1 | 0.14 | The Colonial Military Forces in the Second World war | 1 | Book | Not set |
| Analytical index honours situation. | 1 | 0.14 | Analytical index honours situation. | 1 | Book | Not set |
| Para Consulate (BRAZIL) | 2 | 0.27 | Letters and circulars at Para (1846-1867); copies of despatches to Legation Rio de Janeiro and Manabani (1886-1897); copies of letters sent from Para (1889); Notes of protest | 8 | volumes | 1846-1897 |
| Foreign Office nominal and subject indexes | 2 | 0.27 | Foreign Office nominal and subject indexes | 4400 | Microform | Not set |
| Reference File Indexes, registers and file intake lists | 807 | 108.95 | Numerous miscellaneous file intake, inward and outward file registers and file list reference indexes | 2097 | bound volumes | 1990-2008 |
| Materials being sensitivity reviewed | 504 | 68.04 | Numerous items currently in use. Collection comprises approximately 500 boxes of material; approximately 50 manila type folders plus a collection of loose papers | 4032 | files, bound volume, loose papers | 1954-1997 |
| Colonial Office; Intelligence and Security Department (ISD); registered files | 30 | 4.05 | Files created by the Intelligence and Security Department (ISD) from 1963 to 1968 concerning intelligence matters in the British colonies. The collection has been assigned to the TNA class CO 1035 with each file piece numbered from 196 to 353, thereby adding to pieces 1 to 352 which have already been transferred to TNA. British intelligence organisation in Hong Kong; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - Fiji; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - Western Pacific; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - British Honduras; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - British Guiana; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - Swaziland; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - Bechuanaland; organisation of intelligence services in the colonies - Basutoland; Cuban émigré activity involving British territory in the Caribbean - subversive activities; monthly intelligence reports for the Caribbean; monthly intelligence reports for Far East; monthly intelligence reports for Western Pacific and Falklands Islands; monthly intelligence reports for Mediterranean and Aden; students from Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland; African students in Israel; students behind the Iron Curtain; sale of military equipment to Spain; arms traffic - Aden; Pan Africanist Congress (PAC); the political situation in Bermuda; threat to Aden - evidence of United Arab Republic (UAR) and Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) activities; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Swaziland; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Bechuanaland; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Basutoland; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Seychelles; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Mauritius; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Fiji; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Tonga; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - New Hebrides; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Gilbert and Ellice Islands; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - British Solomon Islands; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Western Pacific; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - British Honduras; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Bermuda; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Bahamas; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Sarawak; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - Brunei; report by Security Intelligence Advisers - North Borneo; communism in Sarawak - report; communist threat to Kenya after independence; military training of colonial students behind the Iron Curtain; African students - dispute with the Bulgarian authorities (1963); Hong Kong Seaman's Union; protective security in the colonies - Basutoland; the political situation in Basutoland; the situation in Mauritius; the threat to Hong Kong; the threat to the Falkland Islands; threat to British Guiana | 158 | files | 1963-1968 |
| Materials for transfer to the TNA | 71 | 9.59 | Format of collection material comprises of 20 boxed sets of papers, lever arch binders and approximately 100 loose items varying from paper and hard back booklets, files envelope wallets and tied loose papers | 568 | booklets; folders; loose papers; ring binders; | 1899-1986 |
| Materials identified by the TNA for destruction | 52 | 7.02 | Format of collection material comprises of 7 boxed sets of papers and approximately 112 loose items varying from bound volumes, paper back reports and tied loose papers | 416 | Bound volumes; loose papers; files | 1873-1991 |
| Defence Department (DPN series) files | 67 | 0 | Not set | 4002 | files | 1984 |
| Republic of Ireland (WLE and WLU series ) | 32 | 0 | Not set | 192 | files | 1986 |
| Rhodesia and Nyasaland Committee (Constitutional Review) Committee | 2 | 0.5 | Cabinet Minutes and Memoranda | 116 | loose papers | 1960-1961 |
| Hong Kong records series: Government House: files, folders and diaries | 102 | 13.77 | A collection of files and folders that came from Government House, Hong Kong which relate to a variety of topics concerning the work carried out by those working there. This includes files discussing the arrangements for visits by officials, as well as briefings and speeches for the Governor. There is also a collection of diaries created by the Governor. Some material is written in Chinese | 816 | files; folders; diaries | 1982-1997 |
| Rio Uruguay Scheme | 1 | 0.14 | The Rio Uruguay Scheme in the Salto Grande Area Technical Economic and Financial Report Volumes 1 and 2 | 2 | volumes | 1962 |
| Western Pacific Archives Registers | 112 | 15.12 | Copies of the registers of the files and territorial records of the Western Pacific Archive which was presented to the University of Auckland in 2002; the registers cover the records of the Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC series), British Agent and Consul Tonga (BCT series) and the New Hebrides British Service (NHBS series); unboxed copies of the lists. | 400 | registers | 2002 |
| Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages | 168 | 22.68 | Registers of births, deaths and marriages returned from posts throughout the world; includes marriage notices, form of aaths, Lex Loci marriages; Swiss General Consular, British Cemetery burials (Luanda, Baghdad, Habbaniya and Basra) registers; copy of the Basra Memorial Parts 1-21 (names of those who died in the Mesopotamia Campaign or died as Prisoners of War in Syria and Asia Minor)(1930-1931); British Civil Cemetery Cash Book and receipt book(1960-1970); British Cemetery Bab El Sinjar Graves Registration Book (1941-1951) | 840 | registers | 1846-1990 |
| Telegram and Despatch Registers | 220 | 29.7 | Bound volumes of the annual registers showing details of telegrams and despatches to and from Consuls and Missions; a number of the registers relate to specific posts, and to commercial despatches Consular; Missions; American Missions; Stockholm Commercial; Christiana Commercial; Hague Commercial; Berne Commercial; Missions Consular series; Bangkok, Peking, Tokyo, Paris Commercial; Petrograd Commercial; Berne and Madrid Commercial; The Hague; Sub register Missions; Sub Registry I; Berne (Prisoners); Rome Petrograd Commercial; Lisbon and Madrid Commercial ; Sub registry II Commercial; Peking and Tokyo ; Peace Delegation; Missions League of Nations; Washington Conference; Eastern Mission | 368 | registers | 1915-1966 |
| Pitcairn Island | 10 | 1.35 | PIT files relating to Pitcairn Island forming part of the Western Pacific Archive not yet transferred to the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Copies of Western Pacific High Commission (WHPC) files relating to Pitcairn Islands which have been transferred to The University of Auckland are held as part of the closed pieces withheld from the Western Pacific Archives. | 76 | files | Not set |
| Western Pacific Archive Registers and indices | 10 | 1.35 | Registers and indices of the Western Pacific Archive | 43 | volumes | Not set |
| Western Pacific Archive Closed Pieces | 18 | 2.43 | Material forming part of the Western Pacific Archive not yet transferred to the University of Auckland, New Zealand on grounds of sensitivity. Copies of Western Pacific High Commission files (WHPC 23 11/1, 9, 11, 23) relating to Pitcairn Islands which have been transferred to New Zealand have been retained for reference purposes are included. | 108 | files | Not set |
| Keesings Contemporary Archive | 3 | 0.41 | Commercial publication | 12 | bound volumes | Not set |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica | 6 | 0.81 | Commercial publication | 23 | bound volumes | Not set |
| Nominal Index Books | 27 | 3.65 | Nominal Index Books for the 1960s | 432 | index books | 1960-1968 |
| Confidential Pamphlets | 38 | 5.13 | Confidential Pamphlets. Bound volumes of documents (1910-1950 (items 1-395)) produced by the Colonial Office Library comprising documents produced for other purposes, and often by other government departments or organisations. A small collection of loose documents appear to be intended as part of the Confidential Pamphlet series. An accompanying note says the documents are not in the volumes. | 38 | loose volumes, | 1877-1952 |
| Library Material (OST Europa collection) | 150 | 20.25 | Card Index for Central African Council documents ; Accession Catalogue pre -1950; lists of titles of foreign language books (one list is marked` books returned'); Catalogue of films and microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945 (1964), volumes 1 and 2 by the US State Department and the Hoover Institute; collection of foreign language, mainly nineteenth century books. | 440 | books, index cards, loose papers | 1800-1964 |
| Bound copies of Confidential Print | 17 | 2.3 | Further correspondence respecting the United States of America. Also Netherlands New Guinea | 17 | bound volumes | Not set |
| Archives Practitioner material | 12 | 1.62 | Dictionary of National Bibliography (1909) ,Volume I-III; Dictionary of National Bibliography 1901-1911 (1963); 1922-1930 (1953); 1912-1921 (1953); 1931-1940(1949); Journal of the Society of Archivists (1955-1993); Journal of the British Records Association (1963-1992) | 103 | loose copies, books | Not set |
| Indexes | 45 | 6.08 | Nominal indexes, File registers, Subject Indexes, Inward telegrams registers, file record registers relating to German posts | 260 | files | Not set |
| Allied Control Authority | 23 | 3.11 | Papers, agenda and Meeting Minutes of Committees the Allied Control Authority Directorates (1946-1947), Control Council (CONL) (1945-1948), Co-ordinating Committee (CORC) (1945-1948) and the Office of the Allied Secretariat (ASEC)(1946-1948). There are separate indexes for CORC, CONL and ASEC papers. Copies of extract from legal journals, pamphlets, newspapers etc and some manuscript notes. Some German language documents. Loose papers concerning statistics about Germany. Berlin and the Problem of German Unification (COI handbook 1969); Technical Manual for Legal and Prison Officers (1945); Handbook of Legislation and Court Rules Military Government Greater Berlin - British Area of Control (undated); The Statutory Criminal Law of Germany Military Government information (1946 Issued by the US War Department); Decisions of the Supreme Restitution Court of Berlin Volume 33 (Decisions 1315-1338) (177-1979); Enactments and Approved Papers of the Control Council and Coordinating Committee - Allied Control Authority (1945 -1948 Issued by the Office of the Military Government Germany (US)); Equalisation of Burdens Legislation unofficial translation by the Office of the UK High Commission (1952); Military Government Gazette, Germany British Zone of Control (undated); German Zone of Control Handbook No5 Rhine Ruhr (Rhine province, Westphalia, Lippe Schaumburg-Lippe) Local Directory(1944); German Zone of Control Handbook No 7 South West Germany (Baden, Württemberg, Hohenzolcrische Lande Westmort) Local Directory (1944); German Zone of Control Handbook No 6 The Hessen region (land Hessen, Kurhessen and Nassau) local directory (1944); German Zone of Control Handbook No 4 North West (Hannover, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Bremmen, Oldenburg, Braunschwig) Local Directory, people and administration; Hessen and Hessen Nassau, Germany (1944 issued by the US Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis Branch); Official Gazette of the Control council for Germany (1945-1948); Constitution of Greater Berlin (1950); Court of Appeal Report Criminal Cases (1947-1949); Legal position of Allies in Europe: Analysis of an article by Ziviev; copy of `rules and regulations for the operation of Spandau Allied Prison' (1955); `The industries in the British Sector of Berlin from July 1945-June 1946’ Report by HQ British Military government Berlin (1946); Social Survey No1 – `Attitudes of Germans to Coal mining’ report by German Personnel Research Branch, Intelligence Division (CCG(BE)(1946); `Public Administration in Germany’ Handbook by the Foreign Office (1947); COL/CORC Index (Index to papers and minutes of Control Council and Coordinating Committee Meetings (1946-1947)); GOVSC Index (Index to papers and minutes of Governmental Sub Commission Meetings(1946-1947)); ZONCOS Index (CCG(BE) Secretariat Conference of the Chief of Staff (British Zone) Index of minutes and papers issued (1946)); Public Opinion Research Office GOVSC CCG(BE) report No2 Cologne Students (1946-1947); Berlin Industries(1945-1946); White, Grey and Black Lists for Information Control Purposes (1946- issued by OMGG (US)); `General Instructions’ (1946 issued by CCG (BE); `the evolution of the Bizonal Organisation’ (1948-issued by OMGG(US); German Constitutional Proposals (c.1949 –issued by OMGG (US); Regional German Administration in the Soviet Zone Saxony –Anhalt Land Brandenburg (1948 – issued by CCG(BE); Land Mecklenburg - Information on the German Trade Union Movement in the British Zone Germany (1948); `The flights from the Soviet Zone and the Sealing Off Measures of the communist Regime of 13 August 1961 in Berlin (published by the FRG); Disarmament Progress Report (1948- issued by the British Army on the Rhine); Zonal Executive Instruction No. 8 Control of Entry to and Exit from the British Zone; Monthly Conference of the Military Governor and Commander In Chief Agenda for 31st Meeting and paper CCMC/(49)1 (1949); Chief Administrative Officer and the Deputy Chief Staff Executive 78th-81st Meeting Minutes and ZON COS papers (1949) | 96 | Bound volumes, lever arch files, loose material, | 1945-1948 |
| Political Intelligence Department files | 17 | 2.3 | Political Intelligence Department files and loose papers . | 117 | files, loose papers | Not set |
| British Governor Spandau Prison | 4 | 0.54 | Papers returned by the last British Governor of Spandau Prison after the death of Rudolph Hess and closure of the Prison. Includes documents held as evidence in the Hess theft case and returned by the Prosecutor's Office in Russian, French and German, photographs of the scene of Hess's suicide. | 11 | lever arch files, ring binders, files, loose documents | Not set |
| British Embassy Berlin files | 3 | 0.41 | A small number of files returned from East Berlin | 19 | files | 1986-1988 |
| British Military Government Berlin files and other material | 18 | 2.43 | BMG BERLIN policy files, Legal Branch Case files , Coroners files and legal documents pertaining to Berlin. British Military Gazette. Official Kommdatura Gazette | 230 | Files | Not set |
| Allied Mediation Bureau | 1 | 0.14 | A small amount of material concerning complaints raised with Allied Mediation Bureau. The material consists of a Complaints Log and a Float file | 2 | lever arch files | 1988-1990 |
| BERLIN BOOK (The Legal Status of Berlin by Hendry and Wood (FCO) | 4 | 0.54 | Draft copies , correspondence and research material relating to book on Berlin. Gatow Range; Ordinances; Basic Berlin documents | 27 | files, lever arch files, loose material | 1987 |
| Control Commission Germany (BE) Library material | 6 | 0.81 | Gazetteer of East Germany; Gazetteer of Western Germany; Basic Handbook Part 3, Nazi Occupied Europe; Basic Handbook Part 5, Rhine –Ruhr; Industry in the British Zone Germany, 1945-1946; The Ruhr: Towns Dusseldorf, Wuppertal and Solingen; Note on the German Civil Service; The Ruhr: Towns – Bottrop, Castrop-Rauxel, Gladbeck, Hagen Herne, Recklinghausen, Rennscleid, Wanne-Eickel, Wattenscheid, Witten); Handbook for Economic Division MG Increment officer (May 1945); The Town of Saarbrucken, Report by the Inter-Services Topographical Department (ISTD) (1944); The Town of Stuttgart, Report by ISTD (1944); The Town of Aachen, Report by ISTD (1944); The Town of Augsburg, Report by ISTD (1944); The Port of Wilhelmshaven, Report by ISTD (1944); The Port of Kiel, Report by ISTD (1944); The Port of Cuxhaven, Report by ISTD (1944); The Port of Bremerhaven and Bremen, Report by ISTD (1944); Basic Handbook, Economic Survey, Houses and Building and Construction, report by FO and MEW (1944); Zone Handbook VII South West (Baden, Wittenberg, Palatinate) Part I People and Administration Zone Handbook No VI – The Hessen Region(Land Hessen, Kurlessen and Nassau) Part 1, People and Administration; The Ruhr –Public Utilities (Electricity, Gas, Water and Sanitisation) Report by the Inter-Services Topographical Department (ISTD)(1944); The German Oil Industry – report by Foreign Office and Ministry of Economic Warfare(MEW) (1944); Berlin – Interim Report by ISTD (1944); Zone Handbook IA – Berlin, Part 1, People and Administration; Index to Part 1; Special report on Hamburg –Port, Public utilities, Oil Storage and Shipbuilding; The Ruhr: Towns – Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum; Zone Handbook VIII – Bavaria, Part III, Local Directory; Interim Report on the Economic and Financial Situation of the Ruhr Mining Industry, report by the HQ Northern German Coal Control (1945); Interim Report on the Economic and Financial Situation of the Rhenish Brown Coal Industry, report by the HQ Northern German Coal Control (1945); The Oeticer Concern (Dr. August Oeticer, Bielefeld), report by the Ministerial Documents Team; Catalogue of Books held in the Central Library (1945); Zone Handbook 1A, Greater Berlin, Part II Economic Survey; Basic Handbook- Economic Survey, Section K Armaments and Munitions (1945); Zone Handbook V – West (Rhine Province, Westphalia, Lippe, Scaumburg – Lippe) Part II, Economic Survey; Report on the Iron Ores of Germany; The German Holdings of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York (including non German holdings held through German subsidiaries, by FO (1945); Developments in the German Steel Industry (1945); Economic Survey; Basic Handbook- Economic Survey, Section K Armaments and Munitions , report by FO and MEW(1945); Water Supply and Sewage Disposal, report by FO (1945); BERCOS Index Control Council and Coordinating Meetings – index to papers and minutes (1945-1946); CORC and CONL Index (1945); Zone Handbook 1A Berlin Part III Local Directory; The Civil Administration of the US Zone Germany; | 48 | books | 1944-1946 |
| Indexes | 200 | 27 | Nominal and Subject Index Books from various FCO departments | 531 | index books | 1967-1995 |
| Control Commission Germany British Element (CCG(BE)) | 40 | 5.4 | Lists of files drawn up by Units in Germany prior to be sent to Central Archives (in Germany) before being forwarded to the UK. The lists have been kept "in case of assistance in future as certain lists contain numerous names of persons arrested for one reason or another". The files are not required by PRO; lists of files received from Germany and drawn up by FCO staff at Hayes; lists of files transferred to The Public Record Office. | 320 | lists | 1953 - 1963 |
| Visa Regime Guidance Notes | 1 | 0.14 | Material retained by Migration and Visa Department officers working on future Visa Regimes. File based on Uganda 1981; General Instructions to HM Consular Officers (circa 1930s); Summary of Visa Regulations (1939,1948,1953, 1955); extract containing pages for Persian Gulf States and Muscat (1968); Passport Control Order Book (1963); | 8 | file, loose material | 1930-1991 |
| West Indies Royal Commission (MOYNE COMMISSION) | 1 | 0.14 | A small collection files relating to the Lord Moyne's Commission into the economic problems of the West Indies. | 6 | files | 1938-1940 |
| Hong Kong Microfilms Indexes | 2 | 0.27 | Hong Kong: files on microfilm | 6 | files | 1968-1982 |
| Miscellaneous | 1 | 0.14 | A number of papers, reports and volumes relating to a miscellany of matters | 30 | files, volumes, loose papers | 1894-1955 |
| FO Memoranda | 12 | 1.62 | A collection of 19th Century papers relating to a range of countries in bound volumes and arranged alphabetically. Includes a volume on Great Britain (Domestic) and General matters. Index of correspondence. | 30 | volumes | 1800-1899 |
| Law Officers Reports and Opinions | 15 | 2.03 | Bound copies of Law Officers Reports and Opinions | 66 | bound volumes | 1812-1960 |
| Defence Reports | 1 | 0.14 | 19th Century reports on the defence of overseas territories | 18 | loose papers | 1840 -1887 |
| 19th/early 20th Century Registers | 4 | 0.54 | Registers covering 19th/early 20th Century correspondence | 13 | volumes | 1835-1924 |
| Buraimi Dispute | 16 | 2.16 | Material relating to the Buraimi dispute - the territorial claims between Saudi Arabia and the adjoining territories of Abu Dhabi and Oman. The papers include documents and research materials used in preparation of a book on the subject and there are drafts of various chapters and research notes. Amongst these are historical notes and papers relating to the wider Gulf area. There are also extracts from other printed works and many documents in Arabic. These include a book in Arabic and many Photostats of original documents. Two boxes of material are marked "these are unsorted and unevaluated and are in fact, to all intents and purposes rejected". | 200 | files, folders, loose papers | 1906-1959 |
| Information System Division | 1 | 0.14 | IS Task Force recommendations for all posts following a review of communications equipment. | 5 | Ring Binders | 1990 |
| Estacode | 1 | 0.14 | Civil Service Regulations and Practice | 6 | Ring Binders | 1944-1967 |
| A disparate collection of records. | 1 | 0.14 | FO Printed Catalogue (1864); Gazetteer on the Persian Gulf (1915); FO Printed Library Catalogue of the [Numerical] Collection (1926); Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library; Treaties etc (1887-1907); Dominions 1937 -1942 - unclassified lists of files at PRO: Destroyed; Colonial Middle Eastern Services Personal Notes from 1930; Actes Signes a Versailles le 28 Juin 1919; Defence Inward Daily Register (1947-1949, 1951-1953); Defence Inward Telegram register (1950); Establishment Branch Daily register In (1940-1950); Kenya Council of Ministers Meeting Minutes (1961); The Gibraltar Police Force - report by the Home Office (1970); Programme Analysis and review 1973 The future of the Dependent Territories Report by FCO, ODM and MOD (1973); report of the Meeting of Commonwealth Ministers (1973); report of the Commissioner appointed to exercise the whole question of the past and present relations of the Paramount Chief of the Batose Nation and the Chiefs Resident in the Balovale District both East and West of the Zambezi River, with special reference to the ownership of the land and the methods by which the tribes have been governed (1939); Four Powers Commission Investigation for the former Italian Colonies - Eritrea (1947); Survey of the Commonwealth 1960-1970 CRO Steering Committee papers; | 50 | loose papers, reports, bound volumes | Not set |
| A disparate collection of records. Includes loose copies of Confidential Prints setting out legal questions and opinions on a range of issues. Also a number of Commonwealth Relations Office Reports on various issues. | 1 | 0.14 | List and Index Society listings (Cabinet Office Classes, Scottish Records Office Sources Lists relating to the USA, British Library Department of Manuscripts; Treasury Board papers, Gifts and Deposits; Rough Register of Acquisitions, State Papers of France, Chatham Papers, Colonial Maps, Ministry of Public Works and Buildings, Air Ministry); Office Circulars, Office Memos and Departmental Notices (1946-1950,1959-1965, 1975-1982); List of Circulars; General Claims Register (1925-1926); The Emsland Case : Record of Proceedings (Revised) of the Trial by Canadian Military Court of SS Brigadefuhhrer Kurt Meyer held at Aurich, Germany, December 1945: Affidavits and Statements (1946); Notes on the Privy Council Practice and Procedure (1937); Imperial Communications Advisory committee Report to Governments (1937); Third Reconstituted European Advisory Council of the Territory of Swaziland (9th and 10th Session (1960); Police Commission of Inquiry Index to Witnesses (1962); Minutes of Meetings of the Trucial States Council (1965-1967, 1970); Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to examine the Saving Bank System in the Colonies (1935); Australia 181- Memorandum on a Bill to amended the Pacific Islanders' Protection Act, 1872 (1906); Australia 138 - Papers relating to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (printed for use by the Federal Council of Australasia)(1890); West Indies 243 - Treasury Control in the West Indies (1936-57); Report of the UK Mission to North America (1935); Relations with the Enlarged European Economic Community - Record of Meetings of Officials 1972 (issued by Commonwealth Secretariat); Final Report of the Army Advisory Working Group on the Commonwealth Jungle Warfare Centre (1970); Commonwealth Economic Consultative Council, London 1959 Summary Record of proceedings | 50 | bound volumes , loose papers, reports, | Not set |
| BANABAN ISLANDS: British Phosphate Commissioners | 1 | 0.14 | Copies of papers provided as evidence by the Treasury Solicitor in connection with claims by the Banabans against HMG and the British Phosphate Commissioners (Rottan Tito v Waddell and others and the Attorney General). Constitutional proposals for Ocean Island, Banaba; Confidential report and Accounts for the 48th Year ending June 1968 from the British Phosphate Commissioners, Melbourne; List of documents in the possession of the Attorney General | 300 | bundles | 1930-1975 |
| Irish State Case papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating to the case brought against the British Government and the judgement by the European Court on Human Rights. The papers include transcripts of hearings, witness statements, psychiatric reports, evidence, affadavits, and exhibits. Counter memorial of the UK Government; Irish observations on the merit of the [Courts conclusions.] | 12 | Bundles | Not set |
| Nuclear co-operation | 1 | 0.14 | A small collection consisting of exchanges with the American authorities in connection with the use of atomic energy for defence purposes. These include original signed copies of the formal agreements with the United States. | 10 | loose papers | 1958-1969 |
| Conferences | 2 | 0.27 | A collection of volumes, reports and papers relating to Conferences, International meetings, etc | 12 | reports, bound volumes, loose papers | 1919-1968 |
| Old Archives Team Reference material | 2 | 0.27 | Revision of Records File series (1947-1952); Lists of files destroyed, retained, kept for second review in 1976, missing; files forwarded to PRO; transferred to PRO Repository at Hayes; CRO Despatch Numbers (1965-1968); miscellaneous information; useful reference papers; Foreign Relations of the United States; guide to Daily Practice of Protocol Department (1962); manual of Records Management Practice; Lists of classified documents destroyed; Lists of Confidential, Secret and Top Secret material destroyed; New system of registration outlined in EOD 22/51 (1951); CRO 1947-1952 Review; Irish Papers 1862-1869 (CO697,698,699); Disposal of records in Mathew Parker Street; CRO records transferred to Security Department and to Ministry of Overseas development (1965) Establishment List 1960 | 16 | 0 | Not set |
| Tripartite Conference on German External Debt | 6 | 0.81 | Papers relating to the 1952 Conference on German Debt held in London. These include the Minutes, papers and working papers of the Commission and the various Committees and informal Groups that met in connection with the work of the Commission. | 36 | files, loose papers | 1951 -1967 |
| General Department file registers and indexes; 'cheque book' series | 62 | 8.37 | Collection of bound annual volumes and accompanying indexes, all bearing the spine nomenclature 'cheque book' and usually 'General' to identify the series. These volumes capture details of file name and references, file index references, subject and description and where the papers originated from thereby serve as an inward register of papers and files received, some of these volumes also record outward movements of certain files listed, the registers are a centrally recorded and administered register of all files created and registered across the FCO and its various departments at the time the registers were in use. | 62 | Bound volumes | 1832-1984 |
| General Department file registers and indexes; 'analytical index' series | 1 | 0.16 | One bound continuous volume of file registry details from 1873 to 1908 bearing the spine nomenclature 'analytical index of the general department' This bound volume incorporates an alphabetically-arranged file subject index at the front followed by numerous sub-sections thereafter of files registered to or by a specific named FCO department such as 'Colonial Office establishment' or 'Pensions. | 2 | Bound volume | 1873-1936 |
| FCO departmental file registers; 'chronological diary' series | 332 | 44.82 | Substantive collection of various departmental bound volumes typically bearing the spinal nomenclature of 'chronological diary' or similar. | 332 | Bound volume | 1920-1950 |
| FCO departmental file registers; 'chronological diary' series | 16 | 13.23 | Substantive collection of various departmental bound volumes typically bearing the spinal nomenclature of 'chronological diary' or similar. | 332 | Bound volume | 1920-1950 |
| FCO personnel, personnel-related and staff pensions matters (PSD) files | 29 | 3.92 | Collection primarily of red boxes containing personnel records, papers and personnel-related matters particularly relating to guidance, calculating and authorisation of payments of overtime, shift work, various kinds of employment-related special duties and work equipment allowances. The collection also comprises a significant sub-set of material relating to the administration, hand-written calculations and processing of staff pensions and pensions benefit entitlement for named individuals who were due for retirement. Files belonged to Personnel Services Department and include a miscellany of civil service-wide employer-related circulars, staff and personnel regulations, terms and conditions handbooks; there are also significant sub-sets of material relating to the following: pay scales; graduated pensions records for named individuals; correspondence with the civil service 'Establishment Officer'; staff overtime claims and overtime expenditure records; boarding school allowance payments to officers. There are also two loose 'policy' files principally about the automatic data processing allowance and the introduction of a new pay flexibility within the civil service by HM Treasury in 1987 | 29 | Papers | 1950-1995 |
| FCO General notices and circulars (PSD) files | 5 | 0.68 | Small collection of ring binder files that contain FCO and civil service-wide circulars about personnel matters such as civil service staff pay, terms and conditions, staff and official special duty allowance entitlements, recruitment, career development opportunities and training, job vacancies and promotion bidding round opportunities | 9 | Files | Not set |
| Military personnel correspondence registers | 16 | 1.67 | Bound alphabetical volumes of nominal registrations of occurrences of correspondence about individually named serving military servicemen and women based overseas or who were due to be posted abroad; the registers capture details about the correspondence that took place between the FCO, the War Office (WO), Colonial Administrations (CA), the commanding officers, the named individuals themselves and or their next of kin and siblings The collection are a set of ten bound A to Z labelled volumes recording chronological details of dispatch and receipt of correspondence for each particular named military serviceman or woman, dates of receipt and dispatch and description of the nature and subject of the correspondence; some named index pages have no details recorded suggesting that there was no record of any exchanges of correspondence for that particular individual; these records capture the name of the individual, their military rank, regiment or equivalent plus overseas colonial location; often the records will also usually record the names and addresses of the next of kin and also descriptions of the correspondence that often indicate injuries were sustained by the individuals resulting in admissions to hospital; typically the correspondence appears to relate to more routine matters such as claims for reimbursement of expenses incurred, leave requests, shipping out instructions, letters of appointment, repatriation requests and instructions to get vaccinated; some records also record the date and name of ship that they embarked on to ship them to their next posting | 10 | Bound volume | 1917-1950 |
| Colonial Office telegram Registers and indices (inward and outward) | 8 | 1.41 | Collection of bound annual volumes recording details of telegrams sent out and received; folders are organised alphabetically and or page sub-divided A to Z by country name Each country record captures the following details about each individual telegram: date of receipt (inward telegrams), date and time of despatch (outward), name of colony that sent it or the name of outward recipient, together with short subject descriptions plus any relevant or distinguishing references and remarks; each individual telegram recorded is assigned an incremental numeric index reference; there are separate Registers and indices for recording inward and outward telegrams | 21 | Bound volume | 1958-1967 |
| Colonial Relations Office telegram and saving telegram Registers and indices (inward, outward and miscellaneous) | 8 | 1.22 | Collection of varying types of bound volumes recording details of telegrams sent out and received; volumes are organised A to Z by city or town name rather than by country name and labelled either as 'CRO' telegram or 'CRO saving telegram' This collection also incorporates several volumes labelled 'telegrams, circulars, governments deputies and miscellaneous etc'; Registers capture details relating to the disposal of papers | 19 | Bound volume | 1964-1966 |
| European Political Cooperation bound documents series | 8 | 1.34 | An incomplete set of various types of bound documents emanating from the work and meetings of the European Political Cooperation (EPC) organisation convened on a biannual basis in a range of different host European cities including London; a significant proportion of these volumes are printed in French The documents contained in the bound volumes include speeches by and reports from the European Community Heads of State and Foreign Ministers, answers to oral and written questions submitted by the European parliament, extracts of letters from various European ministers, EPC annual reports, document extracts and discussion papers. The generic subject matter of these documents focused on: regional and global economic and geopolitical analysis and comment; defence and security matters and foreign policy affairs. Specific titled papers include conclusions of the European Council, conclusions of the ministerial meetings and annual reports of the EPC | 42 | Bound volume | 1977-1991 |
| Missions outward despatch register 1967 | 1 | 0.1 | Two bound annual volumes for 1967 organised alphabetically by country name, recording details of despatches sent out; details recorded include date of despatch, registry reference and to whom | 2 | Bound volume | 1967 |
| Foreign Office foreign jurisdiction bound volumes | 6 | 0.81 | Six bound volumes documenting the implementation, currency and validity of British foreign jurisdiction, by way of Orders in Council, regulations and subsequent amendments and invocations; the register of jurisdictions are organised alphabetically by country name from Abyssinia to Zanzibar. Often these appear in the form of official announcements via extracts from the London Gazette and there are indexes to certain lengthy pieces of legislation; the specificity of foreign jurisdiction includes : admiralty law; civil appeals; companies; contract law; consular and marriage fees; establishment of local courts and court rules; insolvency; marriage validation; merchant shipping; misuse of the telephone; penal (criminal) code; police officer regulations; probate law; transfers of jurisdiction | 6 | Bound volume | 1860-1961 |
| Circulars issued to the dominions (1908 - 1911) | 2 | 0.2 | Two bound volumes containing circulars issued to the various dominions around the world between 1908 to 1911; the bound volumes contain some official memos and minutes as well as printed legislative statutes, regulations and orders and on occasions extracts from the London Gazette. The subject matters of the circulars and accompanying papers enunciate official British government announcements about events that are to take place or have already taken place such as the official announcement of the deaths of public figures; circulars thereafter that event then relate to instructions to the Dominions on matters such as official periods of mourning, circulation of the newly-designed Royal and Imperial cyphers that were to be adopted, or requests for each dominion to forward sets of their postage stamps in current usage for inspection; circulars also relate to less high-profile matters such as announcements about forthcoming India Civil Service open competition examinations and the introduction of new designs of official uniform for certain government officials such as governors | 2 | Bound volume | 1908-1911 |
| Colonial conference confidential papers (1886 - 1907) | 3 | 0.41 | Bound papers relating to the proceedings and discussions that took place at the various colonial conferences convened during this period in time; papers often record verbatim discussions and exchanges between conference attendees who were typically the secretary of state for the colonies and the premiers of each self-governing colony; the papers also contain numerous fold-out colour maps The discussion papers cover a wide variety of subjects including political relations, diplomacy and treaties, defence and security, economic and states' financial expenditures. Papers also focus on merchant shipping and preferential trade between the colonies, reviews of customs excise and tariffs in general and on certain commodities such as sugar and coal. There is also periodic discussion about proposals to introduce a decimal currency and 'metrical' weights and measures system | 4 | Bound volume | 1886-1907 |
| History of Gibraltar (Research Department) papers 1954 | 1 | 0.14 | Bundle of loose papers giving a detailed account of the history of Gibraltar from 1704 to the end of the eighteenth century. The historical account was compiled and prepared by the Foreign Office Research Department in 1954 | 18 | Loose papers | 1954 |
| Dependent territories numbered despatches Registers and indices | 1 | 0.14 | Registries of official despatched communications and reports of state and foreign affairs; the papers record the sequential number and date of each despatch and its colonial destination | 2 | Bound volume | 1968-1972 |
| Colonial Office collection of 'EOD' announcements and notices | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of hardback clutch files containing loose papers emanating from the Establishment & Organisation Department (EOD) enunciating official UK government and office circular announcements These papers typically relate to ministerial briefings, news of forthcoming ministerial visits, office-wide security, administrative, personnel and staffing matters. For example there are papers announcing instructions for the security of classified correspondence, changes to travel subsistence and mileage rates, instructions on handling of parliamentary questions | 8 | Loose papers | 1954-1966 |
| Dominions and Colonial Relations Office collections of office notices | 1 | 0.14 | Collection of four folders containing notices enunciating official UK government and office announcements. These papers typically relate to news of ministerial appointments and forthcoming visits, the awarding of peerages, office-wide administrative, personnel and staffing matters; for example there are papers instructing staff on good drafting practice, Christmas holiday, office closure and staffing arrangements, office moves and relocations | 4 | Folder | 1945 1948 |
| Dominions correspondence and files Registers and indices (notebooks) series | 3 | 0.41 | Small collection of bound volumes with the nomenclature 'note books' that appear to be registers and indices of correspondence and files; each volume has an alphabetical subject index comprising of named topics or by country name; thereafter, there are separate pages with lists of alphabetically listed files (grouped under a specified year heading) accompanied by a short description and a brief file reference prefix Some files due to the apparent quantity or possible significance at the time are listed and grouped together on one page only under specific subject-titled pages such as 'botany, flora, plants and plants and diseases' | 3 | Bound volume | 1923-1929 |
| Indexes and appendices to office circular despatches | 3 | 0.41 | Collection of covered and some missing covered booklets plus several bound volumes that serve as indexes to circulars despatched between 1850 to 1956; some indexes also have accompanying appendices to expand the list of subject and index terms applied; each index and appendix is arranged alphabetically by subject headings> Includes indexes for WWII period | 23 | Booklet; Bound volume | 1850, 1920-1956 |
| Correspondence and files Registers and indices (subject index) series | 6 | 0.88 | Collection of bound volumes referring to named countries or regions with the nomenclature 'subject index' that appear in essence to be Registers and indices of correspondence and files. Each volume has a general alphabetical subject index (by topic or country name) plus certain additional sub-categories of subject headings such as 'administration' or 'ceremonial'. Thereafter, there are separate pages with lists of alphabetically listed files accompanied by a short description and a brief file reference prefix in the far right column of each page. The West Africa subject index volume also features records of reports and returns received | 6 | Bound volume | 1880-1926 |
| Papers belonging to the 'archives of the tripartite commission on German external debts 1951 to 1953' | 1 | 0.14 | A substantial bundle of loose papers relating to the preliminary discussions and concluding negotiations that took place to introduce a plan for the repayment of Germany's external debt | 1000 | Loose papers | 1951-1953 |
| Foreign Office honours (subject index) register 1926 - 1934 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume with the nomenclature 'subject index' and is essentially a register of recipients who were awarded various awards and honours; the register records the name of the recipient, the date and description of the honour, order or award plus the title bestowed together with a description of the insignia and location of the ceremony; the register also records the deaths of existing award and honours holders | 1 | Bound volume | 1926-1934 |
| Colonial Office exchange control circulars 1939 to 1968 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume of circulars for the period 1939 to 1968; the circulars are preceded by an alphabetical index. The subject matter of the circulars correspond to a variety of topics relating to the initial introduction and subsequent maintenance of international exchange controls and includes rates of exchange, travel, imports, investment and insurance | 1 | Bound volume | 1939-1968 |
| Secretary of state for the colonies circulars (secret and confidential) 1952 | 1 | 0.14 | File containing inward and outward circulars, telegrams and related papers issued by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The papers also include savingrams, extracts from reports, conference-related papers and fold-out maps or floor plans, the subject matter varies from: exchange and import controls, UK overseas broadcasting and information services provision, assignment of civilian service radio frequencies to foreign colonial relations, treaties and imperial service order and medal awards | 1 | Bound volume | 1952 |
| Chief clerk circulars 1912 to 1930 | 1 | 0.14 | A collection of original retained circulars and memos emanating from the chief clerk of the Foreign Office; subject matters typically relate to matters of royal and diplomatic protocol, announcements about new coats of arms to be used in official correspondence, instructions for the order in which different types of medals and orders should be worn for official duties and ceremonies; there are also references to regulations adopted by other foreign powers such as France. Preceded by an accompanying index to each item, the papers often include several coloured illustrations usually in the form of newly commissioned designs of coats of arms that are to be officially adopted by various dominions and colonies; frequent extracts from the London Gazette can also be found notably where these refer to official announcements of newly introduced regulations and similar legislation; circulars of this period also often bear the name of Winston S. Churchill | 1 | Bound volume | 1912-1930 |
| Antarctic treaty (9th consultative meeting) conference audio tapes 1977 | 10 | 1.35 | Two boxes of audio recordings taken from the ninth consultative meeting of the Antarctic treaty conference that took place in London during September and October 1977; the tapes record both the plenary sessions and also almost all of the working groups apart from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) meetings A detailed inventory and explanatory sheet accompanies the tapes collection listing the contents of each tape, tape code marking guidance; revolution (rev) counter index and timings, the names of speakers, participants and international representatives who attended the conference; there is also a printed booklet entitled 'Report of the 9th consultative meeting, London 19 September to 7 October 1977' that also records the full list of delegates from each country represented at the conference as well as providing an index of the matters reported on | 70 | Audio reel to reel tapes | 1977 |
| Eastman film reel | 1 | 0.14 | One cased reel of Eastman panchromatic nitrate safety film. Details of the film are currently unknown in the absence of suitable viewing equipment and facilities | 1 | Reel of cinematic film | Not set |
| Conferences on constitutional change audio tapes | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of seven 27cm diameter reel to reel audio tape recordings of two conferences that were recorded in 1976 and 1979. Six of the tapes relate to a six day conference that took place from Monday 12th February 1979 to Saturday 17th February 1979 whilst the seventh tape relates to an earlier one day conference about constitutional change for Bermuda, recorded on 31st July 1976 | 7 | Audio reel to reel tapes | 1976-1979 |
| Western Pacific archives microfilm records | 1 | 0.14 | Microfilm contains the contents of a paper file relating to the land records and provenance of what was formerly known as the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) particularly the Presbyterian church at Tanna. Microfilmed documents include deeds of sale and transfer dating back to circa 1900 onwards, agreements of resolved land disputes, land plan of boundaries and plots of the island and survey plans and associated expenditure costs | 10 | Microform | 1900-1976 |
| Western Pacific archives microfilm records | 0 | 0 | Microfilms of WPA material relating to Pitcairn Island that has been retained in London | 16 | Microform | 1819- 1963 |
| Letters to the honourable Sir S M Grier (K.C.M.G), colonial secretary, Trinidad from the Trinidad leaseholds limited dated 27 July 1931 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume about 'West Indies' assets. Contents include an index of the papers and documents and subject matter and includes lists of lands acquired, deeds, agreements between various companies and Trinidad Leaseholds Limited | 1 | Bound volume | 1931 |
| Nominal register of key decisions files | 1 | 0.14 | One A to Z bound volume used by the Colonial Office as a nominal index of particular files where a policy decision was taken about a particular issue or subject and which referral could then be made to that earlier precedent in order to apply to similar or identical matters that occurred in the future. The register captures brief record details such as short description of the 'precedent heading' for that particular record entry, description of the 'key point' and the 'decision' recorded followed and the date and file reference number | 1 | Bound volume | 1948-1958 |
| Information Systems Department (ISD) inward Registers and indices of correspondence papers and files | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of both 'home' and 'away' inward Registers and indices recording details of ISD correspondence, papers and files | 5 | Bound volume | 1963-1966 |
| Argentine - Chile frontiers dispute case files and documents | 23 | 2.16 | Substantive collection of both bound and loose papers, reports, topographic maps, and photographic documents relating to a dispute between Argentina and Chile over specific frontier lines and national delimitations that appears to have begun circa 1900 and culminated in a conference in London to bring the dispute to an end. The documents include substantial sets of aerial reconnaissance photographs of the disputed area commissioned by the Royal Geographic Society. Papers and bound documents include submissions and counter-submissions from the two disputing countries, reports, land surveys, agreements and protocol documents and exchanges of diplomatic correspondence. Notable documents include the spiral-bound 'memorial of the Argentine Republic' plus the nine hard-back volumes of the 'court of arbitration' | 325 | Bound volume; Files; Loose papers; Loose maps; Photographs; | 1966-1971 |
| Bahamas police commission of inquiry 1962 papers | 2 | 0.27 | Set of six folders relating to the police commission of inquiry that was undertaken in June 1962. The papers include statements and testimonies of witnesses, transcripts of evidence and counsel addresses The inquiry was set up to investigate specific allegations made against the police commissioner in post at that time | 6 | Folders | 1962 |
| Iraq Petroleum Company Limited and associated companies papers | 1 | 0.14 | Set of four ring binders containing papers connected with the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited and associated companies | 4 | Folders | 1925-1973 |
| Papers relating to the 1953 conference on the federation of northern and southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland | 2 | 0.27 | Four paper-back volumes containing papers emanating from the conference held in 1953 that led to the establishment of the semi-independent state formerly known as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Papers include minutes and conference papers, memoranda, committee and working group papers, verbatim record of the proceedings | 4 | Bound volume | 1953 |
| Southern Rhodesia constitutional conference papers 1960 to 1961 | 1 | 0.14 | Three bound paper-back volumes containing minutes, memoranda and conference papers relating to the conference that took place from December 1960 through to February 1961 | 3 | Bound volume | 1960-1961 |
| Registers of honorary distinctions for the commonwealth and the dominions | 14 | 1.89 | A collection of bound volume registers recording the details of recipients awarded various civilian, public and military service awards or honours for exemplary, gallant, courageous or meritorious long service Each register records the name of the recipient, a unique application or recommendation reference for each person, the name of the colony, country or dominion, details of their distinguished service together with any accompanying comments or remarks. Certain types and categories of award or honour are grouped together under one page heading for example the George Medal or Cross. Alternatively some bound volumes in this collection exclusively record details of just one specific award such as the British Empire Medal or the Imperial Service Order. There are also some original historic blank certificate of honour document templates bearing the photographic image and royal insignia, ready to be issued to recipients in their capacity as Governor and Commander in Chief. Some bound volumes contain an occasional alphabetical index of the recipients of the awards and honours | 14 | Bound volume | 1898-1965 |
| Codes of practice, procedures and staff regulations manuals | 1 | 0.14 | Mixed collection of manuals varying from office procedural and routine manuals, staff and diplomatic service regulations to Establishment & Organisation Department (EOD) practice and security instructions. Manuals also contain Ministry of Transport published instructions to consuls on merchant shipping and seamen (1957), digest of office procedure, security instructions (1954 and 1955) Colonial Relations Office staff regulations (1955) plus various incomplete volumes of office rules for UK and overseas based staff | 11 | Bound volume | 1954-1981 |
| Central judicial commission South Africa foreign claims 1903 - 1904 | 1 | 0.14 | Incomplete set of bound volumes relating to foreign claims heard at the commission in South Africa from 1903 to 1904. Collection comprises only of bound volumes parts II, III, IV | 3 | Bound volume | 1903-1904 |
| File register of files and movements 1965 - 1971 | 1 | 0.14 | One file registry of unknown origin or provenance recording the incoming and out-going movements of files and papers Records files belonging to specified file group series from group 100 to group 3100 | 1 | Bound volume | 1965-1971 |
| Advisory and executive councils or associated committees minutes of proceedings papers of former British protectorates, territories or colonies | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of bound volumes dating from 1920 to 1957 recording the proceedings of various colonial Executive council, Advisory council or finance committee meetings. Different volumes refer to finance and estimates committees of the Seychelles, the Malaysian states of Perak and Negeri Sembilan whilst others refer to Executive or Advisory council minutes of Southern Rhodesia and British Somaliland respectively. There is also a volume titled 'Penang Settlement council minutes' | 6 | Bound volume | 1920-1957 |
| Lists of staff contacts, staff directories and miscellaneous papers and booklets | 1 | 0.14 | A collection of mini-booklets, papers and printed documents ranging from staff contact details for Commonwealth High Commissions and UK government departments and related bodies, to the Copyright Act 1911, colonial and foreign service regulations and a journal article from 1978. The collection also include the journal article titled 'the Oxford colonial records project and the Oxford development records project' by Patricia M Pugh and was published in the journal of the Society of Archivists in October 1978. In addition, there is also a booklet titled 'Rhodes House library, its function and resources addenda 1956 - 62' by Louis B Frewer and published in 1964. Lastly there is also a booklet titled 'Public records - foreign office German section first schedule - a list and particulars' published in 1950 | 9 | Booklets | 1911-1978 |
| Treaties and conventions useful papers file (LRD) | 1 | 0.14 | One un-registered Library and Records (LRD) file containing variously titled treaty and convention specific papers | 1 | File | 1938-1969 |
| Index to EOD notices 1st January 1950 to 30 June 1950 | 1 | 0.14 | An A to Z alphabetical index to the official notices issued by the Establishment & Organisation Department (EOD) of the Colonial Office | 1 | Bound volume | 1950 |
| Manual of immigration requirements of the territories with which the Colonial Office is concerned | 1 | 0.14 | An A to Z index arranged by country name beginning Ascension island and ending with Zanzibar | 1 | Bound volume | 1959 |
| Revision of records statistics and similar documents 1874 to 1942 | 1 | 0.14 | Various files and papers recording statistics and details about the retention, transfer and disposal of papers and files from 1874 through to 1942 Collection also includes a hard back file titled' Lord Avon' | 5 | Files; Loose tied bundle of papers | 1874-1942 |
| Colonial Office legal library circulars on legal questions 1945 - 1961 | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of 207 numerically indexed circulars retained by the Colonial Office legal library for the period 1945 to 1961 | 3 | Bound volume | 1945-1961 |
| Dominions reports register of legislative papers and similar 1942 - 1951 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume incorporating legislative papers relating to the former dominions. Also contains a contents page listing the publications of the commonwealth bureau of census and statistics. Pages are organised A to Z and also record file, paper or publication reference and subject description | 1 | Bound volume | 1942-1951 |
| Zanzibar constitutional conference 1962 folders | 1 | 0.14 | Collection of 3 loose folders containing papers emanating from the 1962 conference Papers include General committee minutes, memoranda and conference papers | 3 | Folders | 1962 |
| Future of the West Indies federal shipping service paper | 1 | 0.14 | One file containing papers relating to discussions about the future of the federal shipping service of the West Indies | 1 | File | 1962 |
| Register of legislative council member appointments in British colonies and territories 1922 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound register recording the details of named individuals appointed as members of the various governing legislative councils that existed in each of the British colonies and territories around the world. The registers and indices are geographically divided up in to regions and then within those regions by colony or territory name. Includes dates of appointment and which legislative council they were appointed to and often accompanied by an official Downing Street cutting confirming that appointment | 1 | Bound volume | 1922 |
| Colonial Office index to circular despatches 1951 - 1956 | 1 | 0.14 | Two identical copies of indexed Registers and indices detailing the Colonial Office despatches from 1951 to 1956 | 2 | Bound volume | 1951-1956 |
| Colonial Relations Office standard list of registry subject headings | 1 | 0.14 | Set of alphabetical indexes of registry subject headings issued by the chief registrar | 3 | Bound volume | 1959; 1962 |
| Miscellaneous commissions, committees of inquiry, conferences and visits reports 1961 - 1970 | 1 | 0.14 | A miscellany of disparate reports - some confidential - relating to formal commissions or committees of inquiry and investigation, foreign heads of state visits, conference and discussion papers. Specific reports include: unrest in Swaziland; proposals for further transfer of European farms in Kenya; the Gibraltar police force; stamp mission interim report; conference on colonial policy; Indian prime minister's visit to Britain; Brussels negotiations involving the UK and EEC Commission; an account of facts about frontiers between Abu Dhabi, Sultanate of Muscat and South East Arabia; commonwealth membership procedures; report on the anomalies with reference to the civil service in the western Pacific high commission territories; principles and practice about recognition of coup d'états in commonwealth countries; international commission for supervision and control in Laos; north Borneo and Sarawak. | 16 | Bound volume | 1961-1970 |
| Reparations claims register 1920 - 1928 | 1 | 0.14 | Registry index of papers and files relating to reparation claims submitted by individuals from various British colonies and overseas territories that were processed during this period Registry records the date of when the paper or file was registered, assigned registry number, name of the case or paper, subject description plus the individual claimant's name. Each registry entry also notes whether the claim was paid or rejected and not paid. There are also registry notes against each entry indicating whether the original paper or file was subsequently destroyed under statutory authority. The registry also has an A - Z named index of individual claimant cases recorded | 1 | Bound volume | 1920-1928 |
| Indexes and original papers of letters patent, warrants, commissions and appointments and legal adviser department instructions | 12 | 1.62 | A combination primarily of indexes to papers and files as well as a smaller number of bound volumes containing retained original state legal and official documents. These papers and indexes relate to the confirmation of state sanctioned appointments, the granting a right or title to a private individual or organization, including conveyances of land, inventions and legal recognition of incorporation of companies. It appears also that a small number of papers also relate to the granting of certain honorary awards and titles to named individuals. The papers primarily relate to the state sanctioned announcements and appointments of a variety of ecclesiastical figures, public servants, military service officer command commissions and high-ranking state officials. Examples include appointments of bishops, colonial governors in chief, colonial legislative council members and military commanders. The earliest original document that has been filed appears to be 1843 whilst the index registry records cross-refer to original documents that appear to have been written and first registered from 1672 all the way through to circa 1958. Indexes capture details of the name of document registered, date, subject description, reference number and what 'instrument i.e. how and what form the appointment or announcement was made e.g. London Gazette or by the monarch | 12 | Bound volume | 1843-1958 |
| Chief registrar (Colonial Office) manuscript books sent to records office | 1 | 0.14 | A bound volume containing original exchanges of correspondence and related papers between the Chief Registrar and the Master of the Rolls. This volume also serves as a file register of private and private office papers and correspondence. Original papers also include duplicate despatches from colonial governors sent to the Secretary of State and the Public Records Office. There is an A - Z subject index to the registry and original papers filed within the volume. The earliest registry index entry to a paper is 1809 whilst the earliest original paper contained in the volume is 1860 | 1 | Bound volume | 1860-1912 |
| Administrative records | 1 | 0.14 | A small collection of administarive documents ; Diplomatic Service Regulations; Colonial Service Code of Practice, Parts I-III; Archives Department Organisation and Procedural Instructions; Colonial Relations Office Digest of Procedure ; CRO Security Instructions; Establishments and Organisation Departmental Practice | 11 | Bound volumes | 1954- 1981 |
| Washington conference file and paper Registers and indices 1921 - 1922 | 2 | 0.27 | Two bound registries belonging to the Far East department relating to papers and files arising from the conference about international foreign policy and armament matters in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia region | 2 | Bound volume | 1921-1922 |
| Credentials and letters of recall 1969 - 2004 (Protocol & Conference Department) | 20 | 2.7 | A substantial set of bound volumes of retained original officially state-sanctioned documents issued to foreign governments and heads of state on behalf of HM Queen Elizabeth. Documents relate to the official announcement of recalls and appointments of British diplomats notably ambassadors and high commissioners, with the British sovereign granting them the authority and status to act on her behalf in that particular overseas post | 41 | Bound volume | 1969-2010 |
| Communications department inward and outward file Registers and indices 1922 - 1929 | 5 | 0.68 | Set of five bound Registers and indices recording receipt and outward despatch of a variety of papers and files. Registers and indices are organised alphabetically with A to Z page index tabs, recording date of receipt, registry number, name of originating department plus date of creation, accompanied by brief closing descriptions of subject matter and file or paper content | 5 | Bound volume | 1922-1929 |
| Treaty of Paris 1856 large-scale colour maps and diagrams bound volumes | 2 | 0.27 | Two large bound volumes of coloured, large scale maps and diagrams commissioned for the Danube River Commission (Commission Européen du Danube) in 1867 as a result of the earlier Treaty of Paris in 1856. Maps indicate the land and delta region of the river Danube delta and often also include topographical features. All text is in French. Volumes also include coloured forecasting and estimation diagrams that relate to the predicted change of river flow over a fourteen year period, or changes to the water table in the surrounding land and countries that the Danube flows through from 1872 to 1886 | 2 | Bound volume | 1867 |
| Anglo-American special claims commission (British agent) papers | 11 | 1.49 | A collection of case files relating to either individuals or commercial enterprises for compensation claims submitted on their behalf by the British government agents against the United Mexican States government for losses, injuries and damages sustained as a result of revolutionary activities from 1910 to 1920. There are a significant number of papers written in Spanish The files include mostly legal documents and papers such as affidavits and official printed memorial evidence submissions lodged in support of the claim to be considered by the special claims commission that was established for this purpose | 165 | Files | 1921-1931 |
| Negotiable instruments (British zone), securities (Dusseldorf) and securities (Hamburg) registers | 28 | 3.78 | A related collection of large bound volume registers recording details of the claimants who registered claims for internal and external restitution after the end of world war two following personal property and financial securities losses. Registers record name of each claimant and the amount claimed and their country of origin or the country where their security or currency was deposited. There are typically 14 entries per page and there are an estimated 153,000 registered claims recorded | 28 | Bound volume | 1948-1955 |
| Standard lists of consular officers | 7 | 0.87 | Significant collection of hardback A5 size consular staff directories from 1937 to 1967 | 100 | Bound volume | 1937-1967 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Communications | 0 | 0 | Not set | 35 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Consular | 0 | 0 | Not set | 341 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Dominions Information | 0 | 0 | Not set | 5 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Eastern | 0 | 0 | Not set | 141 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Economic and Reconstruction | 0 | 0 | Not set | 1 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Egyptian | 0 | 0 | Not set | 64 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Establishment and Finance | 0 | 0 | Not set | 3 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Far Eastern | 0 | 0 | Not set | 119 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: French | 0 | 0 | Not set | 20 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: General | 0 | 0 | Not set | 47 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Library | 0 | 0 | Not set | 124 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: News | 0 | 0 | Not set | 44 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Northern | 0 | 0 | Not set | 139 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Reconstruction | 0 | 0 | Not set | 6 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Southern | 0 | 0 | Not set | 65 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Treaty | 0 | 0 | Not set | 316 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Treaty Decorations | 0 | 0 | Not set | 11 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Treaty Decorations British | 0 | 0 | Not set | 3 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943: Western | 0 | 0 | Not set | 184 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| FCO departments day book inward correspondence and papers registers 1919 - 1943 | 2,077 | 280.4 | Substantive collection of 2000+ bound volumes originating from a variety of former FCO departments recording the daily inward receipt and registration of an estimated 2.9 million varieties of correspondence, telegrams, minutes and papers on a broad range of diplomatic, political, economic and routine office personnel subject matters. The collection is made up of volumes that appear to have once belonged typically to the following FCO departments: American; Central; Communications; Consular; Eastern; Economic & Reconstruction; Egyptian; Establishment & Finance; Far Eastern; France; French Africa; General; Library; Northern; Southern; Treaty. Each volume is organised alphabetically by subject with page index tabs, recording the date and subject of the inward paper, who sent it, the type of communication such as a minute or telegram together with the registry reference assigned to that item. There are typically 360 pages per volume with four recorded entries per page | 2070 | Bound volume | 1919-1943 |
| Palestine Railways staff records | 9 | 1.28 | Staff records of service | 27 | Hard copy books | First part of the 20th century |
| Palestine Railways and ports staff pay records | 3 | 0.63 | Staff pay records | 9 | Hard copy books | First part of the 20th century |
| Palestine Establishment List Post and Telegraph staff records | 1 | 0.06 | Staff records for Post and Telegraph | 1 | Hard copy book | 1947-48 |
| Palestine Establishment List Education staff records | 1 | 0.06 | Staff records for Education | 1 | Hard copy book | 1947-48 |
| Palestine Establishment List Health staff records | 1 | 0.07 | Staff records for Health | 1 | Hard copy book | 1946-48 |
| Palestine Establishment List Secretariat and Public Information Office staff records | 1 | 0.05 | Staff records for Secretariat and Public Information Office | 1 | Hard copy book | 1943-48 |
| Kantara and the Sanai (Sinai) Railway correspondence | 1 | 0.1 | Various correspondence regarding the railway includes documentation regarding transfer to Egyptian State Railways | 1 | Hard copy book | 1933-48 |
| Kantara Rafa railway staff correspondence | 1 | 0.03 | Various correspondence regarding staff transfer of service from Palestine Government railways to Egyptian State Railways. | 1 | Hard copy book | 1948-1965 |
| Government of Palestine correspondence | 1 | 0.08 | Miscellaneous correspondence including compensation claims. | 1 | Hard copy book | 1948-49 |
| Palestine Police Force Defence Medal, General Service Medal: Rolls | 6 | 0.86 | Correspondence regarding medals. Lists of recipients. Ex staff and reasons for dismissal. | 96 | Folders | 1936-48 |
| TransJordan Frontier force; General Service Medal and clasps other ranks | 1 | 0.02 | Roll of individuals entitled to the General Service Medal and Clasps (or clasps only) under Army Order (Special) 247 of 1939 | 1 | folder | 1939-40 |
| Palestinian Railway staff correspondence | 1 | 0.13 | Requests from staff for certificates of service | 1 | loose papers | 1986 |
| Palestine Police staff details | 1 | 0.14 | Staff details and medals awarded. A-Z by surname | 2100 | Index cards | 1938-50 |
| A trigonometrical survey of the island of Cyprus 1882 | 1 | 0.14 | One hardback collection of large scale colour maps on a scale of one inch to one statute mile. The title states that the survey maps were executed and published under the direction of captain H H Kitchener R.E. Maps were produced in London by Edward Stanford in 1885. The volume comprises of one index map plus a set of fifteen numerically indexed maps | 1 | Bound volume | 1885 |
| Confidential Print; Abyssinia | 1 | In | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 29 | bound volumes | 1846-1941 |
| Confidential Print; Afghanistan | 1 | In | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; British legation | 89 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets; files | 1863-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Africa | 6 | In | Gambia; Sierra Leone; Gold Coast; territories; Anglo-German claims; Royal Niger Company; traffic in arms; Uganda; expeditions; Zambezi River; Uganda railway; annual reports; diplomatic reports; conference for the preservation of game; African transport conference; British occupied territory in Africa; reports of the British military administration in Middle East command | 92 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets | 1642-1990 |
| Confidential Print; Albania | 0 | In | Corfu Channel case; annual reports; Albanian monetary gold removed from Rome to Germany in 1943; diplomatic reports | 11 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1901-1997 |
| Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 0 | In | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1956-1998 |
| Confidential Print; America | 9 | In | Fisheries; extradition; Treaty of Washington; Halifax Fishery Commission; Alaska boundary; Behring Sea seizures; Canada; protocols; settlement questions between USA and Canada; annual reviews; pecuniary claims arbitration; limitation of armaments; military reports; Anglo-American combined committees (1943); Latin America; labour; politics; the defeat of Fifth Column and Anti-British propaganda in the USA (1942); diplomatic reports; despatches; Behring Sea arbitration; British-North America fisheries; boundaries; Alabama claims; Island of San Juan; north west boundary - rough rice; north west boundary - Lord ASHBURTON'S mission; arrest of Mr MCLEOD - case of the Caroline | 106 | bound volumes; folders; bundle of paper | 1828-1969 |
| Confidential Print; Andorra | 0 | In | Annual reviews; economics; politics; infrastructure; first impression despatches; telegrams; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1994-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Angola | 0 | In | Personalities in Angola; elections; FCO Research and Analysis Department note on recent changes in Angola's external relations; telegrams; despatches | 2 | ring binders | 1965-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Anguilla | 0 | In | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; despatches | 2 | ring binders | 1972-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Armenia | 0 | In | Research notes; reports; annual reviews; despatches; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1993-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Antarctica | 2 | In | Correspondence; Washington Conference; Antarctic Treaty; ecology; Convention of Antarctic Marine Living Resources; seal conservation | 45 | bound volumes; folder; loose bundles of paper | 1947-1981 |
| Confidential Print; Antigua and Barbuda | 0 | In | Constitutional conference; leading personalities | 4 | ring binders | 1980-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Arabia | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 67 | bound volumes, binders and files | 1802-1974 |
| Confidential Print; Argentina | 3 | 0.41 | Correspondence; memos; treatment of British subjects; boundary disputes; annual reports; River Plate; Argentine-Chile border dispute | 13 | bound volumes, binders and files | 1846-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Ascension Island | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; despatches; diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1975-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Asia | 12 | 1.62 | Affairs of Kuwait; reports; correspondence; affairs of Arabia; tour of emir in Afghanistan; Afghanistan boundary disputes; The Turcomans; Baghdad railway, Southern Persia and the Persian Gulf; irrigation report; Bahrain; Oman coast; Kuwait; report and proceedings of the Standing Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence; Far Eastern affairs; politics; report on food situation in South East Asia; operational record of the 11th Army Group and Alfsea; maps; Columbo Plan; South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) annual reviews; SEATO report of the Mapping Ad Hoc Committee meeting in Bangkok (1958) | 39 | bound volumes and ring binders | 1879-1978 |
| Confidential Print; Australia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; despatches; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Austria | 8 | 1.08 | Affairs of Hungary; refugees from Hungary in Turkish dominions; Peace of Villa Franca - Italian affairs; military reports from British commanders; commercial treaties with the United States of America (USA); commercial negotiations between Great Britain and Austria; annual reports; Vienna Conferences (1855); armed strength of Austria-Hungary; Russian and Romanian frontiers; Austro-Hungarian war debt; treaty for the re-establishment of an independent democratic Austria; guide to the Bombers Baedeker for Austria (guide to economic importance of Austrian towns and cities); leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 31 | bound volumes and ring binders | 1843-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Azerbaijan | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; despatches | 2 | ring binders | 1993-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Bahamas | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; despatches; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Bahrain | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; despatches | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Baltic States | 2 | 0.27 | Short handbook of the armies of the Baltic States (1925); maps; annual reports; annual reviews; London Gazette clippings | 4 | bound volumes; ring binder; booklet | 1923-1940 |
| Confidential Print; Bangladesh | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; leading personalities; despatches; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1972-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Barbados | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; despatches | 4 | foolscap folders; ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Bavaria | 1 | 0.14 | Report on the Munich Industrial Exhibition of 1854; report of the Bavarian educational institutions | 1 | bound volume | 1854 |
| Confidential Print; Belarus | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1993-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Belgium | 6 | 0.81 | Protocols; separation of Belgium from Holland; correspondence respecting the immoral traffic in English girls; commerce; riots at Ostend between British and French fishermen - case of the Belle of the Fleet; army; Brussels; cemeteries; marriages; customs tariffs; defences; extradition with Ecuador; convention Zanzibar; postal convention; extradition; annual reviews; annual reports; German legislation in Belgium; Luxembourg; charters said to have been granted by Charles II to the town of Bruges to send 50 vessels annually to fish upon the coasts and rivers of Great Britain and Ireland; leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 17 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1830-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Belize | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Benin (formerly Dahomey) | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Bermuda | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1971-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Bhutan | 1 | 0.14 | Background note produced by the South and South East Asia Section of the FCO Research Department; land; people; economy; political and administrative organisation; relations with Britain, India, China and others; history; maps | 1 | ring binder | 1983 |
| Confidential Print; Bolivia | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 5 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1871-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reviews | 1 | ring binder | 1994-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Botswana | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Brazil | 6 | 0.81 | Connection with slave trade in Brazil; HMS Forte; Anglo-Brazilian claims; renewal of diplomatic relations; navigation; St John Del Rey Mining Company; seaman deserters order in council; emigration; revolution in Brazil; Trinidad Island (South Atlantic); British Guiana boundary arbitration; annual reports; diplomatic reports | 26 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1843-1999 |
| Confidential Print; British Honduras | 1 | 0.14 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1971-1972 |
| Confidential Print; British India Ocean Territory | 1 | 0.14 | FCO Research Department memos; diplomatic reports; Research Department note on the removal of the Elois - historical background (1968-1973) | 2 | ring binder; foolscap folder | 1983-1990 |
| Confidential Print; British Virgin Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1971-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Brunei | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Bulgaria | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; Greco-Bulgarian Boundary Commission; International Courts of Justice case concerning the aerial incident of July 27th 1955 when a Bulgarian fighter aircraft shot down an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv; leading personalities; diplomatic reports | 8 | bound volumes; ring binder | 1877-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Burkina Faso | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; report on Burkina Faso in 1988 | 2 | ring binders | 1984-1990 |
| Confidential Print; Burma | 3 | 0.41 | Operations in Burma (1941-1942); Burma campaign; annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders; file | 1937-1999 |
| Confidential Print; Burundi | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1971-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Cambodia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Cameroon | 2 | 0.27 | International Court of Justice - case concerning the Northern Cameroons (1963); annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | bound volume; ring binders | 1960-1991 |
| Confidential Print; Canada | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Cape Verde | 1 | 0.14 | Diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1977-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Caribbean Community | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1991-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Cayman Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Central African Republic | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1969-1987 |
| Confidential Print; Central America | 6 | 0.81 | Memos; Mosquito Coast Bay Islands; annual reports; Caribbean; Central American Common Market (CACM); diplomatic reports | 11 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1850-1972 |
| Confidential Print; Chad | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Chile | 3 | 0.41 | Correspondence with Spain; war between Chile and Peru; annual reports; extradition; commercial treaties; revolution in Chile - claims; conveyance of treasury by HMS Espiegle; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 11 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1865-1998 |
| Confidential Print; China | 30 | 4.05 | China reports, including foreign relations | 169 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1839-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Columbia | 2 | 0.27 | Correspondence; memos; construction of a canal across the isthmus of Panama; Panama Canal; interoceanic canals; constitutional relations; annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1851-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Commonwealth | 54 | 7.29 | Imperial Conferences; Commonwealth Heads of Government; meeting of Prime Ministers; economic meetings; Paris Peace Conference; British Commonwealth Consulate Committee; meetings of Commonwealth Defence Ministers; meetings of Commonwealth Senior Officials; Commonwealth tours of Harold Macmillan; Commonwealth Security Conference; Commonwealth Relations Office heads of department notices; Diplomatic Service Administration Office (DSAO) circulars; changing patterns in the organisation and conduct of Foreign Policy; dependent territories - departmental practice; Commonwealth constitutional relations; consular relations with the Commonwealth; survey of the Commonwealth; union of South Africa - establishment; Southern Rhodesia - the Zimbabwe Constitution Order 1979; United States-UK trade agreement; conference on the operation of Dominion Legislation 1929; the accession of Singapore to the Commonwealth, 1965; report on the commission on Rhodesian opinion; Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Constitutional Review Conference; conference on the proposed Federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Newfoundland; Malayan independence; Ghanaian independence; Australian constitution question | 220 | bound volumes; booklets | 1908-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Comoros | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1989-1991 |
| Confidential Print; conferences on disarmament | 1 | 0.14 | Chemical weapons; nuclear weapons; biological weapons; partial Test Ban Treaty Conference; annual reviews on conference on disarmament; Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (CDE); diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1984-1992 |
| Confidential Print; Congo | 6 | 0.81 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; French and British negotiations; Congo Free State; memos; annual reviews of Congo, Gabon and Central African Republic | 18 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1890-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Corea (Korea) | 1 | 0.14 | Treaty with Japan; Russian and Corea (Korea) (Korea); orders in council; army; Mr Campbell's journeys; affairs of Korea; Manchuria | 5 | bound volumes | 1876-1910 |
| Confidential Print; Costa Rica | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1858-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Cote D'Ivoire | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binder; foolscap folder | 1997 |
| Confidential Print; Council of Europe | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | foolscap folder | 1998 |
| Confidential Print; Croatia | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1996 |
| Confidential Print; Cuba | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; military representative on Cuba | 8 | bound volumes; ring binders; foolscap folder | 1907-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Cyprus | 3 | 0.41 | The Geneva Conference on Cyprus; constitutional proposals for Cyprus; report on Cyprus emergency; a history of the Eoka (1954-9); diplomatic reports | 11 | ring binders; booklets | 1954-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Czechoslovakia | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Dahomey | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1962-1972 |
| Confidential Print; Denmark | 8 | 1.08 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; Schleswig and Holstein; affairs of Duchess of Holstein, Lauenburg and Schleswig; Schleswig-Holstein question; protocols of conferences; trawling in Icelandic waters | 18 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1720-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Djibouti | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1990-1993 |
| Confidential Print; Dominica or Dominican Republic | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; constitutional conference (1977) | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1850-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Eastern Caribbean | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1979-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Ecuador | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 5 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1846-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Egypt | 51 | 6.89 | British protection of naturalised Greeks; jurisdictions; Red Sea Islands; lighthouse in Red Sea; police regulations; criminal jurisdiction; deportation of British subjects; International Commission; Suez Canal; French designs in the Red Sea; Egypt and Aden; judicial reforms; relations between Turkey and Egypt; Egyptian jurisdiction on Somali coast; finances in Egypt, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean and Black Sea; quarantine and the Egyptian Board of Health; sanitary conference at Venice; cholera; sovereignty over Assets Bay; military events; communications with General GORDON; fall of Khartoum; Egypt and the Sudan; reports on the war in Egypt; public debt; claims of the Khedive Ismail Pasha; new commercial convention; press law; Egyptian customs and the Raftieh System; Sir H DRUMMOND WOLFF'S mission; measures for the suppression of the slave trade; riots at Alexandria; analysis of parliamentary papers; Red Sea lights; Somali coast; Sudan intelligence reports; Cabinet minutes and memos on the Milner Report and Egyptian policy; annual reports; Egypt war; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Egypt defence scheme; cable censorship; secret lists compiled in Office of Deputy Chief of Censor, Cairo; Advisory Committee on Egyptian Judicial reform; conference for the abolition of capitulations in Egypt, Montreux; Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936; Suez Canal base contracts | 180 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets | 1854-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Eire (Republic of Ireland) | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | ring binders | 1956-2010 |
| Confidential Print; El Salvador | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; British claims | 2 | ring binders | 1936 -1997 |
| Confidential Print; Eritrea | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1994-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Estonia | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binder; foolscap folder | 1992-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Ethiopia | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 4 | bound volume; ring binders | 1947-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Equatorial Guiana | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969 - 1987 |
| Confidential Print; Eastern Europe | 1 | 0.14 | Research Department memos | 2 | ring binder; folder | 1963-1983 |
| Confidential Print; European Economic Community | 51 | 6.89 | Cooperation Politique Europeen; narrative reports by the UK delegates to the conference at Brussels and Luxembourg for British accession to the European Community (1961-1965); Brussels Treaty; London; Madrid; Annual Reviews; Leading Personalities | 17 | bound volume; ring binders; loose papers | 1950 -1992 |
| Confidential Print; Falklands Islands | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 4 | ring binders | 1973-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Fiji | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Finland | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 7 | bound volumes; ring binders; foolscap folder | 1920-1998 |
| Confidential Print; France | 33 | 4.46 | Treaties with foreign powers; Newfoundland fisheries; armistice of 1859; neutrality of Chablais; extradition; Congress of Rastadt; foreign coins; monetary conference; spies; Desolation Island; flag at Donganta; arrest of British subjects; exhibition of 1889; budget; medical practice; army; navy; mail ships; St Paul and Amsterdam Islands; horse breeding; channel tunnel (19th Century); construction of harbours; salaries of officials in France; Suez Canal; Indian emigration to Reunion; commercial regulations; proposed channel tunnel and railway; independence of the New Hebrides; relations between France and Burma; French establishment in the Pacific; ship brokerage; France in West Africa; Anglo-French agreements; annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; report on French leaflet campaign; Savarkar arbitration; Waima collision; case of the Minquier and the Ecreous - International Courts of Justice case; Tunisia | 110 | bound volume; ring binders | 1711-1999 |
| Confidential Print; Gabon | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1989 |
| Confidential Print; Gambia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Georgia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1993-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Germany | 48 | 6.48 | Brunswick succession; copyright convention; slave trade; colonisation; colonial aid question; tariff of duties; Africa regulations; annual reports; diplomatic reports; Anglo-German relations; prosecution of German war criminals - proceedings at Leipzig; proceedings of the London Reparations Conference; statistics of exports; strategic survey of Germany; Schleswig-Holstein question; Control Commission for German basic documents; economic reviews; weekly reports; reports of the Commission for Demarcation of the Boundaries of Germany with Belgium, France, Netherlands and Luxembourg; manual of the Allied High Commission for Germany; military headquarters and installations in Germany; military government survey - finance and property control, legal and prison officers, education and religious affairs; public administration; public welfare; leading personalities; electricity supply; Rhine development cooperation and the development of Western European Waterways in general; Combined Travel Board; international military tribunal for prosecution and punishment of major war criminals - Nuremburg; German industrial companies; political organisations and parties of the GDR; military report on German East Africa; German naval operations in the Baltic against Russia (1941-1945); unified Germany | 144 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets | 1815-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Ghana | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Ghana Debt Talks (1966) | 8 | Audio tapes, ring binders | 1970-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Gibraltar | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; the Gibraltar question | 6 | Bound volumes, ring binders | 1897 - 1995 |
| Confidential Print; Gilbert Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1979 |
| Confidential Print; Golan and Sinai | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1993 |
| Confidential Print; Greece | 18 | 2.43 | Greek question; annual reports; commission of arbitration on the Ambatietos case; extradition; diplomatic reports | 50 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1822-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Grenada | 2 | 0.27 | Grenada Constitutional Conference (1973); Department of State (United States of America) - Grenada documents on overview and selection (1984); annual reports; Grenada Constitutional Conference | 15 | ring binder; booklet; tapes | 1972-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Guatemala | 3 | 0.41 | Boundaries of British Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico; Guatemala road; annual reports; diplomatic reports | 7 | bound volumes; ring binders; foolscap folder | 1859-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Guinea | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1959-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Guyana | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Hanover | 1 | 0.14 | State duties; state tolls | 3 | bound volumes | 1821-1861 |
| Confidential Print; Hayti (Haiti) | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; Mr Hills mission to Haiti; British subjects; affairs and claims of British subjects; American design on Bay of Samana | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1872-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Holy See | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Honduras | 2 | 0.27 | The Masica incident; annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1910-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Hong Kong | 1 | 0.14 | Hong Kong Annual reports; | 2 | ring binders | 1972-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Hungary | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 7 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1920-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Iceland | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; fisheries | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets | 1944-1997 |
| Confidential Print; India | 6 | 0.81 | Burma; sedition in India; India, Pakistan and Ceylon; Kashmir dispute; report on the last viceroyalty; annual reports; Rann of Kutch dispute; leading personalities; right of passage over Indian territory (Portugal vs. India); India-Pakistan war (1965); Indian Christian Marriage Act 1872 | 14 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1880-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Indo-China | 5 | 0.68 | Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam; diplomatic reports; annual reports; International Commission for Supervision and Control in Cambodia | 8 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1947-1987 |
| Confidential Print; Indonesia | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities. | 8 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1947-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Ionian Islands | 1 | 0.07 | Despatches of Mr GLADSTONE to Colonial Office | 2 | bound volumes | 1958-1965 |
| Confidential Print; Iran | 2 | 0.27 | History of British policy on Iran; annual reports; diplomatic reports | 8 | ring binders; bundle of loose papers; booklets | 1963-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Iraq | 3 | 0.41 | Administration; annual reports; economic and other relations with Iraq; special 10 year report on Iraq; Council of Baghdad Pact (1955) | 11 | bound volumes; booklets | 1930-1969 |
| Confidential Print; Israel | 4 | 0.54 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 8 | bound volumes; ring binders; folder | 1949-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Italy | 9 | 1.22 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Vatican; Peace of Villafranca; Tuscany, Rome, Lombardy, Venice, Naples; sewage farming; commercial negotiations; fleet mobilisation; defences of Italy; steamship "Thames"; mutual exchange of judgements; Italy and Trieste; alteration in Italian tariffs | 32 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1746-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Ivory Coast | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1961-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Jamaica | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Japan | 18 | 2.43 | Treaties, conventions, agreements and assurances; Orders in Council; treaty between Britain and Japan; trial and judgement of Japanese war criminals; perpetual leases; annual reports; Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty; protocols; orders from Supreme Commander for the Allied powers to the Japanese government; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 60 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1865-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Jerusalem | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1973-1991 |
| Confidential Print; Jordan | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 5 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1946-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Kazakhstan | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 2 | ring binder; foolscap folder | 1993-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Kenya | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Kiribati | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1979-1993 |
| Confidential Print; Korea | 1 | 0.14 | Geneva Conferences; Anglo-Korean policy consultations; Secretary of State visit to Far East; visit of Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea; annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 11 | bound volumes; ring binders; files | 1947-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1994-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Kurdish issues | 1 | 0.14 | Diplomatic reports; the Kurdish problem | 1 | ring binders | 1946-1971 |
| Confidential Print; Kuwait | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | loose papers, ring binders | 1970-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Laos | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; meeting of ICC | 6 | files; ring binders | 1961-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Latvia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1992-1997 |
| Confidential Print; League of Nations | 3 | 0.41 | Liquidations; correspondence | 6 | bound volumes | 1924-1947 |
| Confidential Print; Lebanon | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 4 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1946-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Lesotho | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Liberia | 3 | 0.41 | Military report on Liberia; Liberian Boundary Commission; annual reports; Sierra Leone boundary; diplomatic reports | 12 | bound volumes; ring binders; plastic wallet | 1852-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Libya | 2 | 0.27 | Anti-British demonstrations and embassy break-in (1972); annual reports; diplomatic reports; minutes of meeting of Libyan government Economic Planning Committee | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1950-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Lithuania | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binder; foolscap folder | 1992-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Luxembourg | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1951-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Macedonia | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1994-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Madagascar | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; imprisonment of General WILLOUGHBY; claims of British subjects for losses during the French operations; slave trade | 9 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1876-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Malawi | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Malaysia | 1 | 0.14 | Diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Maldives | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Mali | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1960-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Malta | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; council of government minutes | 3 | bound volume; ring binders | 1944-2001 |
| Confidential Print; Mauritania | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1960-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Mauritius | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Mexico | 5 | 0.68 | Includes booklets created by the Special Claims Commission for individual cases | 12 | bound volume; ring binders; booklets | 1844-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Moldova | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 4 | ring binder | 1993-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Mongolia | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1966-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Montenegro | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; Montenegrin frontiers; disturbances in Herzegovina and Montenegro | 6 | bound volumes | 1857-1916 |
| Confidential Print; Montserrat | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1971-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Morocco | 14 | 1.89 | Foreign relations; loans; foreign protection in Morocco; commercial negotiations; Mr. MACKENZIE'S expedition to Cape Juby; Casablanca Claims Commission; minutes of meeting of Tangier Committee; Morocco tribal activities; diplomatic reports; annual reports | 43 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1839-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Mosquito | 3 | 0.41 | Mosquito territory; Mosquito and Nicaragua; protocol of the sessions of the International Commission for the examination of the Mosquito grants in accordance with the Treaty of Managua of 28 January 1860 | 5 | bound volumes | 1847-1860 |
| Confidential Print; Mozambique | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders; foolscap folder | 1966-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Muscat | 1 | 0.14 | Dhows arbitration; dispute between rulers of Muscat and Zanzibar | 3 | bound volumes | 1861-1915 |
| Confidential Print; Namibia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1989-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Nauru | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1978-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Nepal | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; economic reports | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1935-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Netherlands | 6 | 0.81 | Treaties; East Indies; policy on Netherlands government in eastern seas and treaties with native chiefs; Straits of Malacca and Island of Sumatra; Liege Railways; Coolies in Surinam; independence of Luxembourg; North Sea Fisheries Conference and Convention of 1882; wreck of the Nisero and detention of her crew by the Rajah of Tenam; Costa Rica packet case; annual reports; Legal Adviser's file on dispute between the Netherlands Government and the Rotterdamsche Bank relating to disposal of Netherlands currencies captured by British forces from German forces in 1944-1945 | 21 | bound volumes; ring binders; files | 1824-1998 |
| Confidential Print: New Hebrides | 0 | 0 | New Hebrides Joint Naval Commission | 1 | folder | 1886 - 1888 |
| Confidential Print; New Zealand | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Nicaragua | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Mosquito reserve | 8 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1860-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Niger | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | ?? |
| Confidential Print; Nigeria | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Mosquito reserve | 7 | ring binders; booklet | 1968-1997 |
| Confidential Print; constitutional relations of the empire (including defence) | 1 | 0.14 | Constitutional relations of the empire (including defence); correspondence and papers; copy of South Africa Act (1962) | 8 | booklets; envelope | 1932-1962 |
| Confidential Print; non-aligned groups | 1 | 0.07 | Research Department note | 1 | ring binder | 1988 |
| Confidential Print; Northern Iraq | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1992-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Norway | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; Anglo-Norwegian discussions respecting territorial waters; fisheries; fisheries dispute; maps | 22 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets | 1906-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Oman | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Omani Civil Service review | 5 | ring binders; booklets | 1970-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Pacific Islands | 12 | 1.62 | Affairs of the Society Islands; affairs of Sandwich Islands; Pritchards indemnity; Navigation Islands; kidnapping and deportation of natives; annexation of the Fiji Islands; maps; Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Samoan claims arbitration papers; affairs of Tonga; the Ocean Island; phosphate industry report; diplomatic reports | 47 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1822-1974 |
| Confidential Print; Pakistan | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1969-1999 |
| Confidential Print; Palestine | 4 | 0.54 | Diplomatic reports; conferences on Palestine; Palestine Royal Commission; the Palestine question at the United Nations (UN); politicians and personalities; history of Palestine; maps | 23 | bound volumes; ring binders; booklets; file | 1931-1991 |
| Confidential Print; Panama | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 4 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1903-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Papua New Guinea | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1975-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Paraguay | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders; foolscap folder | 1906-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Persia | 30 | 4.05 | Persia and Afghanistan; Turco-Persian boundary; draft treaties; negotiations with Ferouk Khan at Paris; withdrawal of HM mission from Tehran; consular jurisdiction; traffic in arms in Persian Gulf; mission to Seistan; India Office papers; trade routes; annual reports; Karun irrigation; Perso-Russian frontier; integrity of Persia; geology of Persia; Karachi extension railway survey - reconnaissance reports and estimates (1913); Turco-Persian frontier; Persian Gulf Sub-Committee; diplomatic reports; Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; Perso-Baluchistan boundary; communications in Persia - Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB) report; British policy in the relinquishment of Abadan in 1951 | 100 | bound volumes; ring binders; files; booklets | 1834-1973 |
| Confidential Print; Peru | 4 | 0.54 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; claims of Peruvian bondholders; Galapagos Islands | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1841-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Philippines | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1947-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Pitcairn Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1876-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Poland | 7 | 0.95 | Insurrection in Poland; visits of Foreign Secretary to Warsaw (1965); the status of Stettin; annual reports; economic reports; visit of Mr and Mrs RIFKIND to Poland (1984); visit of Mr KUCZA, Polish Foreign Minister (1985) | 20 | bound volumes; ring binders; files | 1814-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Portugal | 17 | 2.3 | Claims to territories on East Coast of Africa; Delagoa Bay (Maputo Bay); sovereignty over Bulama; commercial negotiations; action of Portugal on the Zambezi; Delagoa Bay Railway arbitration; memos; annual reports; German concessions in Madeira; African possessions; Portuguese religious properties arbitration at The Hague; Anglo-Portuguese Treaty; trade and privileges in India; Madeira chaplaincy; fever at Boa Vista; leading personalities; Intelligence Report (CB1805) | 63 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1836-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Prussia | 1 | 0.07 | German Customs Union | 1 | bound volume | 1843-1846 |
| Confidential Print; Qatar | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1973-2008 |
| Confidential Print; Rhodesia | 1 | 0.14 | Bingham Report (1978); report on the supply of petroleum and petroleum products to Rhodesia; defence; visit of minister without portfolio (1968); review of Bingham Report | 3 | ring binders; booklet | 1968-1978 |
| Confidential Print; Rome | 1 | 0.14 | Relations with Great Britain; relations with foreign governments | 4 | bound volumes | 1689-1870 |
| Confidential Print; Romania | 4 | 0.54 | Annual reports; commercial negotiations; relations with Great Britain | 12 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1876-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Russia | 30 | 4.05 | Russian proceedings in Central Asia; Russian occupation of East Coast of the Caspian and Afghanistan; claims in connection with the steamship Malacca; correspondence with Soviet Union; marriages of British subjects; Turkmenistan and Afghanistan; execution of Treaty of Paris; annual reports; diplomatic reports; war with Turkey; Russian advances in Europe and Asia; North Sea incident; Treaty of 1856 (Black Sea); outrages on Jews; attack on Hull fishing boats by Baltic Fleet; journey down the Volga to the Caucases; memoirs of Mr LC Thornton (1911-1933) - his life in Russia including trial and imprisonment as an employee of Metropolitan Vickers Company; report on inquiry into 1948 air collision; Russian agriculture | 105 | bound volumes; ring binders; files | 1856-1992 |
| Confidential Print; Rwanda | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binder | 1962 - 1991 |
| Confidential Print: Salvador | 1 | 0.14 | British Claims | 1 | Bound Volume | 1844-1851 |
| Confidential Print; Sao Tome and Principe | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1979-1986 |
| Confidential Print; Sardinia | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | bound volume | 1858-1859 |
| Confidential Print; Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1970-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Senegal | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; history of the British representative in Dakar and building of the British residence (1872-1945) | 4 | ring binders; booklets | 1961-2000 |
| Confidential Print; Serbia and Serb-Croat Slovene | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; bombardment of Belgrade; import of arms | 2 | bound volumes | 1862-1926 |
| Confidential Print; Seychelles | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Siam (Thailand) | 8 | 1.08 | Isthmus of Kra Canal; military position; boundary between Perak and Siam; treaties, conventions, agreements and assurances; collection of regulations; annual reports; registration of British subjects; Siam Rice Commission | 26 | bound volumes; bundles of papers; files | 1880-1969 |
| Confidential Print; Sicily | 2 | 0.27 | Constitution Calabria; insurrection; Naples; Sicily | 6 | bound volumes | 1812-1860 |
| Confidential Print; Sierra Leone | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Singapore | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; slave trade | 6 | 0.81 | Slave trade reports | 18 | bound volumes | 1662-1873 |
| Confidential Print; Slovakia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1993-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Slovenia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1993-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Solomon Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Somali Democratic Republic (Somalia) | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1958-1994 |
| Confidential Print; South Africa | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; establishment of Republic and withdrawal from Commonwealth | 7 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1960-1996 |
| Confidential Print; other South American Countries | 1 | 0.14 | Correspondence | 1 | Bound volume | 1953 |
| Confidential Print; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | ring binder | 1991-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Southern Rhodesia | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1969-1975 |
| Confidential Print; Spain | 22 | 2.97 | Maritime jurisdiction in Gibraltar waters; Spanish marriages; dismissal of Sir H Bulver; designs on Cuba; war with Chile; ancient treaties; annual reports; commercial negotiations; international committee for the application of the agreement regarding non intervention in Spain. | 73 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1700-1998 |
| Confidential Print; St Kitts and Nevis | 1 | 0.14 | Constitutional conference (1982); leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1982-1996 |
| Confidential Print; St Helena | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1975-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Sri Lanka | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1996 |
| Confidential Print; St Lucia | 2 | 0.27 | Leading personalities; St Lucia Constitutional Conference (1978) | 2 | ring binders | 1978-1996 |
| Confidential Print; St Vincent and The Grenadines | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Constitutional Conference (1978) | 2 | ring binder | 1972-1990 |
| Confidential Print; Sudan | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Sudanisation Committee meetings and correspondence with Council of Ministers | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1910-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Suriname | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1975-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Swaziland | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Sweden | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 10 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1855-2006 |
| Confidential Print; Switzerland | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Neuchatel | 11 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1836-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Syria | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; agreements concerning the Levant States between HMG and the fighting French | 6 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1936-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Tanzania | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Taiwan | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1966-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Tajikistan | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1994-1995 |
| Confidential Print; Texas | 1 | 0.07 | Annexation | 1 | bound volume | 1843-1845 |
| Confidential Print; Tonga | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1970-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Togo | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1960-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Trieste | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; handbook on the Yugoslav zone of Trieste | 3 | ring binders; foolscap folder | 1947-1953 |
| Confidential Print; Thailand | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders | 1957-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1970-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Tunisia | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; Financial Commission; community relations | 9 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1845-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Turkey | 102 | 13.77 | Occupation of Moldova; persons under British protection; affairs of Syria; navigation of the Danube; relations between Turkey, Greece and Crete; Supreme Consular Court; finances of Turkey; Ottoman loans; Christian privileges; Latin and Greek churches; Anglo-Turkey commercial treaty; affairs in Turkey; affairs in South East Europe; reports on leprosy; military subjects; Island of Cyprus; Russo-Turkish war; Asiatic Turkey and Arabia; British protection in Ottoman Dominions; Treaty of San Stefano; affairs of Crete; consular establishments; Vilayet of Angora; Balkan railways; coasting trade; disputes between Consul at Aleppo and the Wali; navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates; annual reports; Baghdad railway; Danube navigation; Sheikh Said; British trade in Mesopotamia; war in the Balkans; Eastern Roumelian Commission; Turco-Persian boundary; diplomatic reports | 372 | bound volumes; ring binders; files | 1827-1996 |
| Confidential Print; Turkmenistan | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1993-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Turks and Caico Islands | 1 | 0.14 | Envelope containing 14 architectural drawings of an infrastructure project to build an airport in 1980 | 15 | ring binder; envelope | 1974-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Tuscany | 1 | 0.07 | Diplomatic reports | 1 | bound volume | 1849-1852 |
| Confidential Print; Tuvalu | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1978-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Uganda | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 3 | ring binders; file | 1969-2004 |
| Confidential Print; Ukraine | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1992-1998 |
| Confidential Print; United Arab Emirates | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1973-1998 |
| Confidential Print; United Nations | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities; UKMIS Geneva; Vienna | 14 | bound volumes; ring binders; loose papers | 1947-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Upper Volta | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1973-1983 |
| Confidential Print; Uruguay | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 5 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1904-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Uzbekistan | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1995-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Vanuatu | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1975-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Venezuela | 9 | 1.22 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; British Guiana boundary; boundary arbitration; commercial treaty; interference with British shipping; British claims; sovereignty over the Patos Islands | 40 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1889-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Vietnam | 2 | 0.27 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; poems by Nguyen Chi Thien | 5 | ring binders; file | 1973-1998 |
| Confidential Print: Western European Union | 1 | 0.14 | Annual Review | 1 | ring binder | 1995-1996 |
| Confidential Print; West Indies Associated States | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1969-1978 |
| Confidential Print; Western Samoa | 1 | 0.07 | Annual reports | 1 | ring binder | 1971-1994 |
| Confidential Print; Yemen | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 7 | ring binders | 1952-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Yugoslavia | 3 | 0.41 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 13 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1812-1998 |
| Confidential Print; Zaire | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports | 2 | ring binders | 1971-1997 |
| Confidential Print; Zambia | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 3 | ring binders | 1969-1999 |
| Confidential Print; Zanzibar | 15 | 2.03 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; Germany and Zanzibar; abolition of slavery; blockade of Zanzibar; list of enactments; suppression of slave trade | 57 | bound volumes | 1869-1936 |
| Confidential Print; Zimbabwe | 1 | 0.14 | Annual reports; diplomatic reports; leading personalities | 2 | ring binders | 1980-1998 |
| General Print | 117 | 15.8 | Consular establishment board; expenses of consulates abroad; commercial treaties between foreign powers; conferences at Brussels; rules of military warfare; slave trade; sugar bounties; protection of submarine telegraph cables; charting of vessels for coiling belligerent ships outside territorial waters; reports on Anglo-Afghan war; correspondence; issue of pilotage certificates; international copyright; Paris Cholera Conference; peace conference; trade laws of the UK; Naval Conference Committee; Royal Commission on Extradition; Select Committee on Foreign Loans; anarchism; aerial navigation; British communities abroad; illegal fishing; relief of distressed British subjects; international maritime conferences; minutes of Contraband Committee; European war; minutes of Enemy Exports Committee; statistics of imports into Scandinavia and Netherlands; limitation of armaments; prisoners and aliens; trading with the enemy; treaties with enemy powers - interdepartmental committee; guides to the press; guide to the foreign press; Paris Peace Conference; Allied Blockade Committee; treaty of peace with Bulgaria; treaty of peace with Germany; treaty of peace with Hungary; Supreme Economic Council; Neutral Tonnage Conference; Who's Who; resolutions of the Conference of Ambassadors, Paris; Northern Department - files for secretary of state; Political Intelligence Department (PID); Postal Union Congress; War Cabinet Eastern Committee; Arabia; Asia; India; Palestine; Syria; censorship; Foreign Office Committee on British communities abroad; Unofficial Coal Committee; reports on heads of foreign missions; International Economic Conference; personality reports - heads of mission in London; International Commission on the Laws of War (The Hague); Scandinavia and the Baltic States; conference of Allied foreign ministers at Paris; Geneva Conference; Paris embassy telegrams; reports on heads of communist missions; Proceedings of Inter-allied Conference and discussions; war blue books; War Cabinet papers; imperial meeting; European war secret telegrams; conference on disarmament; issue of news messages; conference for the codification of international law; weekly summaries of events; overseas prize disposal committee; Committee on Inter-imperial relations; intelligence reports; Proceedings of London Naval Conference; the blockade of Germany, Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey; weekly political intelligence summaries; armistice negotiations; Council of Foreign Ministers; neutrality laws issued by foreign governments during the war; draft history of the International Refugee Organisation; world press guide; refugees; index of British treaties; Inter-Service Topographic Department (ISTD); Inter-Service Information Series (ISIS) reports; Sicily; Tunisia; Netherlands; Belgium; Atlantic Islands; Senegal; Madagascar; Algeria; Canary Islands; British Borneo; Hong Kong; Turkey; Siam; Italy; Albania; Joint Intelligence Bureau (JIB), London; maps; plans; photographs; air photographs; coastal survey; ports; transportation; communications; railways; road; industry; electricity; agriculture; land; landing places; airfields; population; economic; Finland; Norway; Sweden; Spain; Scandinavia; South Africa; Persia; Jordan; Kuwait; Hungary; France; Gambia; Denmark; Public Record Office guides; the strategic air offensive against Germany; NATO; history of the Special Operations Executive (SOE); by WJM Mackenzie; war at sea; atomic energy; civil industry and trade; economic blockade; British foreign policy during Second World War; recognition of the Czechoslovak national movement; Nine Powers Conference, London; western European Union; JCC on captured enemy archives; European Advisory Commission; international bank; conference on the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests; Abadan; CRO precedent book; Private Office papers (1922-1946); Planning Section papers; UKMIS New York annual reports; publication of German documents involving HRH the Duke of Windsor; War Cabinet Chiefs of Staff Committee papers; country assessment sheets; oil policy history; administration of enemy property; Information Services reports; Committee on Representational Services Overseas; diaries of SIR C CAMPBELL; Middle East Development Division; New Zealand consular instructions; Commonwealth relations; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | 936 | bound volumes; ring binders; files; booklets | 1704-?? |
| Diplomatic annual reviews and valedictories | 10 | 1.35 | Collection of diplomatic annual reports and head of mission valedictories for the period 2002-2008. One file contains valedictories dated 1981-2004 that were requested under FoI. Earlier diplomatic annual reports and valedictories may be found within the Confidential Print series | 19 | ring binders | 2002-2008 |
| Ministerial speeches papers 1984 - 1994 | 24 | 3.24 | Collection of retained papers of transcripts of speeches and press releases primarily relating to those delivered by various FCO and other UK government ministers including the Prime Minister, from 1984 to 1994. Papers are typically stored in archive boxes and grouped together either by the individual minister's name or by groups of ministers names. | 24 | Loose papers | 1984-1994 |
| Spare FCO (H.C.) circulars file 1995 | 1 | 0.14 | One ring binder containing retained copies of all FCO office circulars issued during 1995. Circulars are sequentially numbered beginning with circular reference 1/95 to 341/95 | 1 | Loose papers | 1995 |
| Select committee on the diplomatic and consular service 1870 | 2 | 0.27 | Two boxes containing original printed typeset documents relating to the proceedings and report emanating from the select committee of 1870 | 2 | Loose papers | 1870 |
| Nominal index microfilm cassette tapes 1954 | 4 | 0.54 | Four plastic boxes containing a type of dual reel microfilm cassette or cartridge, a microfilmed record of the nominal indexes for 1954. | 726 | Microform | 1954 |
| Papers relating to the transfer of India Office library to the British Library | 1 | 0.14 | Papers that relate to the transfer of the India Office library collection to the British Library. Papers about the various discussions and arrangements for organising the transfer. Also includes a printed edition of an article about the India Office library that featured in the journal of the British Records Association in April 1970 | 250 | Loose papers | 1949-1982 |
| DWS retained newsletters and similar file 1966 - 1976 | 1 | 0.14 | One ring binder containing retained copies of the Diplomatic Wireless Services (DWS) newsletters and also the subsequent DWS engineering group 'bulletins'. Collection of newsletters commences with newsletter numbered DWS no. 1 through to DWS no.24, and 'bulletins' issue no. 1 to issue no. 5 | 30 | Loose papers | 1966-1976 |
| Tripartite commission gold papers 1951 | 1 | 0.14 | Collection of stapled papers relating to the collective international submission for arbitration claims for gold looted by the Germans from Rome in 1943. This collection comprises primarily of the final typed adjudication reports for each country that submitted a claim. Each adjudication report is sequentially manually annotated from one to thirteen | 13 | Loose papers | 1951 |
| Colonial Office forced labour reports 1932 - 1935 | 2 | 0.27 | Two bound volumes containing typed reports by the Colonial Office detailing the extent of forced labour notably in North Borneo, East and West Africa, and Trans-Jordan. Papers also incorporate the various conventions on forced or compulsory labour and also a memorandum on the form of the annual report to be submitted | 2 | Bound volume | 1932-1935 |
| Hague Convention 1961 for abolition of legalisation papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers and correspondence relating to the Hague Convention 1961 abolishing the requirement of legalisation for foreign public records. Plus earlier papers dated 1956 that led towards the formulation of this Convention, and later papers up until 1985 that relate back to ongoing the adoption of the Convention | 1 | folder | 1956-1985 |
| Fifteenth annual report of the Foreign Compensation Commission 2005 | 1 | 0.14 | Foreign compensation commission annual report paper. One loose command paper report (Cm 6778) dated May 2006 covering the financial year ended 31 March 2005 | 1 | Loose papers | 2006 |
| Aerial incident of July 27 1955 memorial evidence submission | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume submitted by the UK government to the International Court of Justice in relation to the case of arbitration that primarily involved Israel and Bulgaria. This submission arose as a result of the deaths of British citizens who were passengers on an El Al Israel commercial aircraft that was shot down by Bulgarian military aircraft in 1955. The volume also includes various fold-out colour maps, a copy of the flight plan document, various monochrome photographic documents illustrating the aircraft ground debris after it crashed, plus signed expert and witness evidence statements | 1 | Bound volume | 1955 |
| Conference on the operation of dominion legislation and merchant shipping legislation 1929 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound volume recording the minutes of the conference meeting | 1 | Bound volume | 1929 |
| Memorial of the government of Ireland submission to the European court of human rights application no 2722 1976 | 1 | 0.14 | One bound document representing the republic of Ireland's submission to the European court of human rights issued against the UK for allegations of violations of specific human rights caused by the UK's introduction of a range of security measures in Northern Ireland in response to the situation that existed at that time | 1 | Bound volume | 1976 |
| Indexes for confidential print | 24 | 3.24 | Significant collection of bound volume companion indexes to the extensive set of confidential print volumes. Set of indexes also incorporates the following : catalogue of India Office records (non-Indian territories and Persian Gulf); country lists; consecutive lists; parliamentary papers index list; printed memoranda index; | 24 | Bound volume | 1814-1950 |
| History of the Yugoslav conflict 1986 - 1992 | 1 | 0.14 | Set of three spiral bound duplicate documents.; Detailed comments on this internal history. | 4 | Bound volume, loose paper | 1986-1992 |
| Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic: terrorism, drug trafficking, organised crime and enforcement | 1 | 0.07 | Signed memorandum of understanding between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the government of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic concerning co-operation in matters of terrorism, drug trafficking, organised crime and general policy and enforcement matters, signed in 1990. There are two versions of the signed agreement - one in English, the other in Czech | 1 | folder | 1990 |
| FCO office and Hanslope park retained circulars files 1973 - 2006 | 73 | 9.86 | Extensive collection of retained FCO office and Hanslope Park annotated circulars files interspersed with periodic bi-monthly checklist files | 126 | ring binder folders; red boxes | 1973-2006 |
| Chief clerk newsletters 1967 - 2001 | 2 | 0.27 | Set of six ring binders containing retained chief clerk newsletters from 1967 - 1995 | 6 | ring binders | 1967-2001 |
| Indexes to circular despatches 1808 - 1956 | 9 | 1.22 | Set of eight bound volumes of indexes to the circular despatches from 1808 to 1956. Collection also includes one analytical index (1857 - 1868) | 9 | Bound volume | 1808-1956 |
| Reprints of certain circulars issued to HM representatives abroad 1920 - 1955 | 21 | 2.84 | Set of official re-printed circulars from 1921 to 1955 | 21 | Bound volume | 1920-1955 |
| Departmental minutes, circulars and letters 1990 - 1994 | 1 | 0.14 | Set of three ring binders containing departmental minutes, circulars and letters issued between 1990 and 1994 | 3 | Ring binder | 1987-1994 |
| Registrar's memos volume I (1970 - 1982) | 1 | 0.14 | One ring binder containing Registrar's memos from 1970 to 1982 | 1 | Ring binder | 1970-1982 |
| BBC world service papers and 'management matters' newsletters 1993 - 1994 | 1 | 0.14 | One ring binder containing papers about activities of the BBC world services, and also a collection of 'management matters' newsletters | 1 | Ring binder | 1993-1994 |
| Petitions submitted to HM the Queen, or the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs or other unspecified HM government officials 1968 | 1 | 0.14 | Hardback volumes containing details and papers of individuals and organisations from Hong Kong who submitted formal petitions to HM the Queen or members of Her government, in connection with a second term of office for the Governor, Sir David Trench | 10 | Bound volume | 1968 |
| Post fact sheets 1999 | 1 | 0.14 | One ring binder contains a set of fact sheets for each of the FCO's overseas posts around the world. A set of fact sheets containing important and useful information for staff whop are to be posted abroad to one of the FCO posts. The sheets are filed alphabetically A to Z by name of post. Typical information conveyed within the fact sheets include climate, details of frequency and UK flights home, schooling, accommodation and medical facilities at that particular post | 1 | Ring binder | 1999 |
| Dublin High Commissioner's office and Chief Secretary's office lists of secret files destroyed and kept 1921 - 1944 | 1 | 0.14 | One folder containing information about which files have or have not been retained or destroyed | 1 | Folder | 1921-1944 |
| Summary of visa regulations April 1955 | 1 | 0.14 | Two identical bound volumes of visa regulations dated April 1955 | 2 | Bound volume | 1955 |
| Diplomatic service training department training opportunity and training course notices 1991 - 2000 | 4 | 0.54 | Set of ring binders containing news and information about the variety of training courses and personal development opportunities advertised to staff across the FCO | 10 | Ring binder | 1991-2000 |
| FCO spokesman, speeches, ministerial engagements and daily digests 1995 - 1998 | 4 | 0.54 | A collection of copies of the daily digest featuring news about ministerial engagements and speeches given plus some office-wide notifications | 11 | Ring binder | 1995-1998 |
| Diplomatic service procedures, regulations, office and civil service codes, handbooks and staff guides | 45 | 6.08 | Collection of diplomatic service procedures (DSP) and diplomatic service regulations and similar that cover a variety of office management, staff regulations and specific work procedures. There is also an index to the DSP volumes. Collection includes DSPs on : administration; conferences and visits; financial management; format and procedure for written work; information systems including IT and communications; local budget procedures; parliamentary work; political work; records branch procedures; registry procedures; royal matters and visits overseas; security overseas, home and personal security; supplies; terms of service (pay, pensions, allowances, travel, transport, personal finance); the order book; telegrams; transport. Other items or series include: Civil Service Management Code; FCO code of management; handbook on communications; heads of mission handbook; management officers guide; brief guidance notes on personal security booklets | 92 | ring binder folders | 1949-1994 |
| Foreign Office Circulars | 78 | 10.53 | A large collection of Foreign Office circulars discussing a wide variety of subjects. There are also circulars for the Diplomatic Service Administration Organisation (DSAO), as well as specific Diplomatic Service and Commonwealth Office circulars | 225 | bound volumes; ring binders; box | 1814-1996 |
| Civil Service pay and conditions of service code | 2 | 0.27 | Copy of the Civil Service pay and conditions service code | 4 | ring binders | 1974-1983 |
| Dependent Territories - departmental practice | 1 | 0.14 | Guidelines for diplomatic staff working in dependent territories | 2 | ring binders | 1972 |
| Medical and Welfare Department: newsletters | 1 | 0.07 | Newsletters issued to staff by the Medical and Welfare Department concerning general health matters | 1 | ring binder | 1989-1996 |
| India Office Confidential Print | 2 | 0.27 | A bound volume labelled as India Office Confidential Print containing an assortment of documents on matters in various Asian countries | 1 | bound volume | 1877-1887 |
| Local Personality Reports | 96 | 12.96 | Annual personality reports for important personalities in countries, arranged by year. Within each year, the reports are arranged in alphabetical order by country. It would appear that the reports cover all nations across the world | 267 | bound volumes; ring binders | 1926-1998 |
| Colonial print papers and documents series | 129 | 17.42 | A substantial disparate collection of bound and un-bound loose reports, formal state agreements, colonial government conference papers and meetings minutes, memoranda, indexes and circulars that span from 1860 through to 1979. There are also a variety of miscellaneous documents including letters, committee discussions and submissions of evidence towards formal commissions of inquiry. Formal commissions of inquiry papers and related documents plus colonial and commonwealth conference proceedings feature prominently within this collection. The nature of the reports can range from investigative ecological, scientific and ethnological studies, meteorological surveys, colonial civil servants salaries reviews and disarmament talks, to colonial educational standards reviews, labour employment conditions and biographies of politicians and local personalities in a particular colony or region. This collection also contains colonial police code manuals and handbooks, annual colonial governor reviews, administrative committee discussion papers and completed visit reports. The formal commission of inquiry into the Singapore riots of 1950 is a significant sub-set of papers within this collection. | 1032 | Bound volumes; loose papers; files | 1860-1979 |
| Departmental series, diplomatic reports and diplomatic documents 1954 - 2000 | 123 | 16.61 | Collection of ring binders containing departmental circulars bearing either the nomenclature 'departmental series' , 'diplomatic reports' or more latterly 'diplomatic documents'. There is also a set of four consolidated bound volumes of 'departmental series' papers for the period 1971 to 1976 | 247 | Ring binder; boxes; Bound volume | 1954-2000 |
| Spare copies of research department notes 1985 - 1987 | 1 | 0.14 | Loose spare copies of Research Department papers from 1985 to 1987 | 825 | Loose papers | 1985-1987 |
| Inquiry into arms sales to Sierra Leone | 6 | 0.81 | Correspondence, papers and reports relating to the inquiry, led by Sir Thomas Legg, into arms sales to Sierra Leone by British private military companies, in particular Sandline International. It resulted in the publication of the Report of the Sierra Leone Arms Investigation a copy of which is included in this series. There are also papers, video cassettes and audio cassettes relating to the Foreign Affairs Committee report on Sierra Leone arms | 64 | ring binders; files; video cassettes | 1997-1998 |
| Export licenses for Yugoslavia | 2 | 0.27 | Copies of individual applications for Export Licenses and United Nations Authorisation to export goods to Yugoslavia | 200 | bundles of loose paper | 1993-1994 |
| Export licenses for Iraq | 15 | 2.03 | Copies of individual applications for Export Licenses and United Nations Authorisation to export goods Iraq | 600 | bundles of loose paper | 1993-1996 |
| Serious Fraud Office investigation into BAE Systems | 1 | 0.14 | Correspondence relating to the investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into BAE Systems allegedly making illegal payments to secure arms contracts | 8 | file; loose material | 2007-2010 |
| Scott report 1996 and defence equipment sales to Iraq papers and daily record of inquiry proceedings | 55 | 7.43 | collection of preliminary investigation plus post-inquiry papers, legal documents and a record of the daily proceedings of the Scott inquiry from day one (4 May 1993) to the final day 88 (7 July 1994). a significant collection of these papers are annotated with the file prefix 'LJS' which represent the ring binder record of the daily proceedings of the inquiry. Thereafter the post-inquiry ring binder papers are sequentially numbered from 1 to 85, with several additional boxed loose papers. The collection also incorporates an index to the documents and papers relating to this inquiry plus a full set of the final published 'Scott report' | 190 | ring binder; boxes; | 1989-1996 |
| Foreign Affairs Select Committee Pergau dam inquiry papers 1988 - 1994 | 2 | 0.27 | Papers relating to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee investigation of the controversial circumstances of the granting of British aid towards construction of the Pergau hydro-electric project in Malaysia. Papers include minutes of evidence and ministerial instructions and background information documents | 1000 | Loose papers | 1988-1994 |
| Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and Bank of England papers 1987 - 2002 | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating to the requests by the Three Rivers District Council - one of the BCCI creditors - for the FCO's assistance in disclosure of certain documents in support of litigation that was launched by the council against the Bank of England | 500 | Loose papers | 1987-2002 |
| Inquiry papers 2001 - 2003 | 2 | 0.27 | Not set | 5 | ring binder | 2001-2009 |
| Public interest immunity certificates folders | 2 | 0.27 | Collection of folders containing papers relating to submissions from named individuals facing criminal prosecution requesting to be granted public interest immunity certificates two boxes with files numbered from 01 to 13 and 14 to 20 | 20 | files | 1988-2002 |
| FCO UN department export licences collection 1992 - 1995 | 43 | 5.81 | Documentation and papers relating to the processing and granting of export licences during the period 1992 to 1993. Licences primarily relate to exports to Iraq although there are several boxes referring to Yugoslavia. | 14469 | files; loose papers | 1992-1995 |
| FCO Resource Management Department (RMD) miscellaneous files 1992 | 1 | 0.14 | Miscellaneous collection of registered files each bearing the title name of FCO departments | 34 | files | 1992 |
| Colonial Office indexes and Registers and indices collection 1951 - 1968 | 269 | 36.32 | A substantial collection of bound volumes comprising of nominal and subject indexes, file and correspondence. Registers and indices from 1951 to 1968 this collection contains sets of indexes from each of the various Colonial Office departments that existed during this period | 805 | bound volume | 1951-1968 |
| Colonial relations office (CRO) nominal, personal and subject indexes 1952 - 1966 | 537 | 72.5 | A substantive collection of bound volumes - the personal indexes can be easily distinguished by the yellow coloured covers whilst those with a blue cover are typically the nominal and subject indexes within this series | 1073 | bound volume | 1952-1966 |
| Foreign office (FO) indexes 1950 - 1966 | 392 | 52.92 | A substantive collection of printed bound volumes with a small boxed collection of cassettes containing microfilmed nominal indexes for the period 1953 to 1959. Also 8 cassettes for 1964-66 | 770 | bound volumes; microfilm cassettes | 1950-1972 |
| Foreign & commonwealth office (FCO) nominal indexes 1972 - 1995 | 351 | 47.39 | A substantive collection of bound volumes nominal indexes for the period 1972 to 1995 | 702 | bound volume | 1972-1994 |
| Destroyed files lists papers 1973 - 1978 | 13 | 1.76 | A collection of 20 ring binder files containing lists of destroyed files for the period 1973 through to 1978 | 20 | ring binder | 1973-1978 |
| Officers destroyed personnel, personnel x-ref files and locally-engaged staff files | 3 | 0.41 | A collection of 16 ring binder files and 2 boxes with details of the personnel files that were destroyed | 16 | ring binder; loose papers; boxes | 2000-2001 |
| Diplomatic etiquette guidance handbooks | 1 | 0.14 | A collection of new staff guidance manuals and papers explaining the rules of diplomatic etiquette and protocol | 4 | booklets | 1949-1965 |
| Uganda claims - list of destroyed files | 1 | 0.14 | one box of papers listing the files destroyed as at 2006 and also previously during 1985 to 2005 | 135 | papers | 1985-2006 |
| Colonial Office (CO) records of documents in the Public Records Office (PRO) 1876 - 1954 | 6 | 0.81 | Set of 10 bound volumes listing the CO documents that were transferred across to the PRO from 1876 to 1954 | 10 | Bound volume | 1876-1954 |
| Public Records Office (PRO) leaflets files | 3 | 0.41 | A set of 4 ring binders containing retained leaflets issued by the PRO | 4 | ring binder | 1987-1999 |
| Miscellaneous catalogues, indexes and guides to documents and maps | 7 | 0.95 | A miscellaneous collection of catalogues, indexes and guides to documents and maps of the FCO, the Colonial Office print, Cabinet Office committees, Public Records Office (PRO) state papers and guides to record keeping. This collection includes the following: Public Records Office manual of records management administration (1993); Dominion Office index to classes; Special Operations Executive (SOE) information guides about its work | 56 | loose papers; leaflets and pamphlets; ring binders | 1987-1999 |
| Anglo-Norwegian fisheries case September 1949 - accompanying set of maps | 10 | 1.35 | A collection of 10 large scale coloured maps produced for the UK Admiralty in support of the UK's submission to the International Court of Justice in 1949 regarding the disputed Norwegian territorial waters. The earliest map printed in this collection is of 1926 with the most recent from1947. | 10 | Maps | 1926-1947 |
| Completed and ongoing referral papers 2004 - 2005 | 2 | 0.27 | Small set of papers relating to the inward receipt and review by the FCO of a variety of documents received between 2004 and 2005 | 2 | loose papers | 2004-2005 |
| Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Iraq sanctions file lists of investigation papers 2007 - 2008 | 5 | 0.68 | Papers containing lists of files relating to the SFO's criminal investigation surrounding the 'oil for food' affair. There is also correspondence related to the process of providing access to FCO files to the SFO. Plus a box containing papers sent to the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) regarding 'oil for food' | 92 | loose papers | 2007-2008 |
| Inquiry file lists 2009 | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | loose papers | 2009 |
| Review and The National Archives (TNA) material | Varies depending on the records currently being consulted by records managers | 50 | Current work in progress papers; this area is used for storage by records management staff. It contains records which are being consulted by records managers as part of their work, for instance in response to Freedom of Information requests | 0 | Varies | Not set |
| Burgess and Maclean | 19 | 4.57 | Investigations into their disappearance , including assessments of their personalities; Melissa MacLean’s subsequent flight to Moscow; gives some details of Burgess and Maclean's activities in Moscow; and, looks at the measures the Foreign Office put in place as part of a wider government process of tightening up personnel security | 103 | Ring binders and archival boxes | 1949-1963 |
| Departmental files - Americas and International Security (AM to DZW) | 376 | 50.76 | 3008 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - International Security and Joint Assistance (DZW to EJU) | 366 | 49.41 | 2928 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - Joint Assistance and North Asia and Pacific (EJU to FEC) | 355 | 47.93 | 2840 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - North Asia and Pacific and Americas (FEJ to HIC) | 378 | 51.03 | Not set | 3024 | Files | 1992 |
| Departmental files - Americas and FCO Services General Services (HIC to IPD) | 366 | 49.41 | Not set | 2928 | Files | 1992 |
| Departmental files - General Services and Library and Records (IPD to LRR) | 378 | 51.03 | 3024 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - Library and Records and European Union (LRR to MWS) | 367 | 49.55 | 2936 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and Middle East and North Africa (MWS to NFN) | 354 | 47.79 | Not set | 2832 | Files | 1992 |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa and Public Services (NFN to PBG) | 376 | 50.76 | Not set | 3008 | Files | 1992 |
| Departmental files - Public Services and Protocol (PBG to TXU) | 367 | 49.55 | 2936 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - Protocol and European Union (TXU to WPE) | 328 | 44.28 | 2624 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and Wider Europe (WPP to WST) | 254 | 34.29 | 2032 | Files | 1992 | |
| Departmental files - Americas and International Security (AM to DZW) | 343 | 46.31 | Not set | 2744 | Files | 1993 |
| Departmental files - International Security and Joint Assistance (DZW to EJR) | 368 | 49.68 | 2944 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files -Joint Assistance and Wider Europe (EJR to ESD) | 274 | 36.99 | 2192 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - Wider Europe and Consular (ESD to GK) | 376 | 50.76 | 3008 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - Consular and West Indian (GK to HWE) | 365 | 49.28 | 2920 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - West Indian and General Services (HWF to ISX) | 323 | 43.61 | 2584 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - East Africa and Global Issues (JES to MFG) | 218 | 29.43 | 1744 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues and European Union (MFS to MXT) | 329 | 44.42 | 2632 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and International Security (MXT to NPT) | 342 | 46.17 | 2736 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - International Security and Africa (NPT to QES) | 315 | 42.53 | 2520 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - Africa and United Nations (QES to UNP) | 354 | 47.79 | 2832 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations and Wider Europe (UNP to WSZ) | 335 | 45.23 | 2680 | Files | 1993 | |
| Departmental files - Americas and international Security (AM to DZW) | 351 | 47.39 | Not set | 2808 | Files | 1994 |
| Departmental files - International Security and Joint Assistance (DZW to EJQ) | 369 | 49.82 | 2952 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - Joint assistance and Asia and Pacific (EJQ to FAF) | 359 | 48.47 | 2872 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files -Asia and Pacific and Americas (FAF to HIG) | 364 | 49.14 | 2912 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - Americas and General Services (HIH to IOC) | 349 | 47.12 | 2792 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - General Services and Global Issues (IOC to MDT) | 322 | 43.47 | 2576 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues and European Union (MFA to MXT) | 311 | 41.99 | 2488 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and International Security (MXT to NPS) | 311 | 41.99 | 2488 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - International Security and Africa (NPS to QEW) | 354 | 47.79 | 2832 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - African and United Nations (QEW to UNP) | 348 | 46.98 | 2784 | Files | 1994 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations and Wider Europe (UNP to WSZ) | 357 | 48.2 | Not set | 2856 | Files | 1994 |
| Departmental files - Americas and International Security (AMC to DCT) | 268 | 36.18 | 2144 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental files - Security Department (DZA to DZU) | 151 | 20.39 | 1208 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Global Issues, General services and FCO Services(ED to EGA) | 144 | 19.44 | 1152 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: General Services and FCO Services (EGA to EJ / KF) | 168 | 22.68 | 1344 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Joint Assistance Unit, joint Assistance Department (EJF/KHF to EJS) | 168 | 22.68 | 1344 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: European Union, Wider Europe (EJS to EKU) | 128 | 17.28 | 1024 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Wider Europe (ENB to FAB) | 148 | 19.98 | 1184 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: (FAC to FER) | 152 | 20.52 | 1216 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Public Services Department (FES to GVE) | 142 | 19.17 | 1136 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Hong Kong, Public Services Department (GVE to HKC) | 147 | 19.85 | Not set | 1176 | Files | 1995 |
| Departmental Files: West Indian and Hong Kong Departments (HKD to HWT) | 150 | 20.25 | 1200 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: FCO Services, General Services Department (HWT to IPT) | 161 | 21.74 | 1288 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Legal Advisers central unit (IPT to LGJ) | 153 | 20.66 | 1224 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: General Services, European Union Departments (LRB to MFS) | 138 | 18.63 | 1104 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: European Union (MFS to MWR) | 125 | 16.88 | 1000 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: European Union (MWR to MXT) | 158 | 21.33 | 1264 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Near East and North Africa (NNB to NFJ) | 123 | 16.61 | 984 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: International Security (NFJ to NPS) | 157 | 21.2 | 1256 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Consular (NPS to NTP) | 167 | 22.55 | 1336 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: African Equatorial (NTT to QEB) | 150 | 20.25 | 1200 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Personnel (QED to RSA) | 160 | 21.6 | 1280 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Protocol (RSA to TXS) | 154 | 20.79 | 1232 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: United nations (TXS to UNK) | 166 | 22.41 | 1328 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Western European (UNK to WRG) | 145 | 19.58 | 1160 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: Wider Europe (WRG to WSZ) | 138 | 18.63 | 1104 | Files | 1995 | |
| Departmental Files: North America and Disarmament Departments (AMC to DSC) | 165 | 22.28 | 1320 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: International Security (DCC to DZS) | 165 | 22.28 | 1320 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Global Issues (DZS to EDN) | 157 | 21.2 | 1256 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Joint Assistance (EDP to EJH/KHF) | 166 | 22.41 | 1328 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Joint Assistance (EJJ/GEN to EJP) | 165 | 22.28 | 1320 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Joint Assistance (EJP RMC / MON to EJU) | 163 | 22.01 | 1304 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Wider Europe (EJU to ENT) | 143 | 19.31 | 1144 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: North Asian and Pacific (ENX to FEC) | 155 | 20.93 | 1240 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Asia and Pacific (FEC to FSP) | 155 | 20.93 | 1240 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: Americas (FSP to HIX) | 165 | 22.28 | 1320 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: West Indian (HIZ to HWA) | 157 | 21.2 | 1256 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental Files: FCO Services, General Services (HWB to IPT) | 155 | 20.93 | 1240 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues (IPT to MFX) | 294 | 39.69 | 2352 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa (MFX to NFB) | 378 | 51.03 | 3024 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - Consular, Public Services (NFB to NTX) | 329 | 44.42 | Not set | 2632 | Files | 1996 |
| Near East & North Africa Department (NENAD) registered files (NF) | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | Files | 1996 |
| Consular registered files (NT) | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | Files | 1996 |
| Non-Proliferation / Counter-Proliferation and Defence Departments registered files (NP) | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | Files | 1996 |
| Grading review papers | 41 | 5.54 | Folders containing papers related to grading reviews of posts at home and overseas. Includes completed record sheets, rate cover sheets, job specifications, staff appraisal forms, JEG scores etc. ; JEGS Code Lists; | 328 | Files | 1998- |
| Compensation of victims of Nazi persecution case files: Nazi persecution claims | 77 | 10.4 | File created when Germany agreed to pay compensation to victims of Nazi persecution. | 4206 | Files | 1964- |
| India and Pakistan Commonwealth Relations Office Services department case files | 75 | 10.13 | Services Department case files relating to individuals formerly employed in the Indian public services and their claims about pension and provident fund entitlements following independence and partition between India and Pakistan in 1947. Also claims for compensation from British subjects for war damage in Burma and other areas in the Far East. | 1875 | Files | 1947-1954 |
| Various collections of Hong Kong files in microfilm format 35mm & 16mm | 221 | 29.84 | Hong Kong: colonial records | 163200 | Microform | 1915-1988 |
| Papers from the Kebilene court case | 8 | 1.08 | Collection of unregistered material used at the trial of Sofiane Kebilene, Farid Boukemiche and Sofiane Souidi at the central criminal court, accused of terrorism in Algeria. Contains FCO telegrams, papers and weekly situation reports, including press and media, UN and human rights reports detailing the internal political and security situation in Algeria. Index to some papers and reports are included. Some material is written in French | 64 | loose papers/bundles of papers; Files | 1993-2000 |
| Library and Information Services LRR series files | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | 0 | Not set |
| Government Hospitality Fund: state visits | 10 | 1.35 | Collection of registered files relating to state visits. Includes invitations and lists of those invited. | 80 | Files | 1974-1996 |
| Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on purchases: meeting minutes | 2 | 0.27 | Bound volumes of meeting minutes of the Government Hospitality Advisory Committee on purchases of wine and other consumables. | 9 | Bound volumes | 1922-1967; 1975-1998 |
| Invitations to luncheons and dinners | 5 | 0.61 | Invitation cards, menus, table plans for luncheons, dinners and other events organised by the Government Hospitality Fund. | 72 | loose copies | 1933- |
| Personnel Services Department: tender documents | 43 | 5.81 | Files and papers of tender documents relating to unaccompanied air freight, integrated computer systems (PRISM), red and white sector fire alarms, customer care videos, Japanese language training courses, management training courses, design and printing of DS9 forms, shipment of vehicles, stationary, overseas radios, mail room etc. Also includes Overseas Estates Department (OED) tender documents | 344 | Files/loose papers | 1993-1994 |
| Allied Kommandatura, Berlin: printed copies Public Safety Committee memorandums | 1 | 0.14 | 4 printed books of the Allied Kommandatura, Berlin Public Safety Committee memorandums (PUSA) 1980 and 1981 | 4 | books | 1980-1981 |
| Allied Kommandatura, Berlin: copies of memos | 1 | 0.14 | Copies of Allied Kommandatura (Berlin) memos on an assortment of topics. Some material is written in French and German. | 40 | loose papers | 1951-1984 |
| Empty Boxes | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | 0 | Not set |
| Communications Administration Department: registered files | 373 | 50.36 | There is a set of master file lists (finding aids) for these records. | 2984 | Files | 1970 to 1991 |
| Project Propel: papers | 1 | 0.14 | A collection of reports and papers relating to Project Propel which concerned the design and production of communications equipment. The majority of the documentation specifies the design requirements and assessments of various company proposals for the design. The box includes the record photographs of OPO (Old Public Offices) Whitehall showing mainly the mechanical and engineering services in the basement of the building. | 8 | file; folders; photographs | 1984-1986 |
| European Community (Presidency)/European Union Department (Presidency): registered files | 17 | 2.3 | 136 | Files | Not set | |
| Numerous captured records of the German, Italian and Japanese Governments | 28 | 3.78 | Copies of captured records of the German, Italian and Japanese Governments. Much of the material consists of photographic prints of documents that were captured during the end of the Second World War. The bulk of the material are copies of the "Von Loesch" documents. Paper prints of the microfilm images are included in these files along with indexes to the documents/film images. The series also contains biographical data on German diplomats in the German Foreign Service. There is also a box containing information on naval negotiations and agreements between Germany and Britain during the period 1937-1939. Other material includes papers relating to exchanges between Germany and other countries. Some material is in French, German, Italian and Russian | 224 | Files, Bound volumes, photographic prints; bundles of papers | 1870-1952 |
| Passport Control Department: visa policy files | 2 | 0.27 | Policy files relating to the provision of visas to foreign citizens | 16 | Files | 1957-1968 |
| Services Planning and Resources Department (SPRD): civil service general notices and reference material | 3 | 0.41 | Comprises of bundles of papers and unregistered files. It includes a collection of civil service general notices and ESTACODE circulars relating to all aspects of civil service daily life which have been indexed; a copy of 'The Order Book' (FCO procedures) for 1974 and fellowship and bursary notices | 24 | loose bundles of papers; Files | 1973-1992 |
| FCO Services: Security (technical and protective): vulnerability reports | 3 | 0.41 | Several copies of a vulnerability report for the Safe Room at Hanslope Park. | 24 | Bound volumes | 1966 |
| Directorate Section and Establishment Section: registered files | 10 | 1.35 | Files concerned with communications | 80 | Files | 1950-1980 |
| Information Systems Division: miscellaneous papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers concerning IT projects and IT systems at the FCO. | 8 | loose bundles of papers | 1984-1992 |
| Technical and Protective Security (TPS): tender documents | 2 | 0.27 | Tender documents relating to provision of perimeter fencing and security systems at Hanslope Park; a message handling system and a tractor unit. Includes plans, elevations and details of the perimeter fencing and security systems | 16 | loose bundle of papers | 1981-1988 |
| Project notebooks | 18 | 2.43 | Notebooks containing rough notes, calculations, technical drawings and test results relating to experiments to develop communications equipment. | 144 | Notebooks | 1949-1987 |
| Berlin legal files | 124 | 16.74 | A collection of unregistered files relating to legal issues on a variety of topics, encountered during the Allied control of Germany and Berlin. It includes a series of Allied Kommandatura, Berlin Legal Committee minutes and agendas. | 992 | Files; loose bundles of papers | 1946-1969 |
| British citizenship applications from various countries | 48 | 6.48 | A series of case files for births, marriages, deaths and applications for British citizenship. The British citizenship files concern cases where an individual has married a British citizen and is therefore applying for citizenship. The majority of the files relate to cases in Karachi, Caracas and other posts. | 384 | Files | 1951-1977 |
| Migration and Visa Department (GV): registered files | 0 | 0 | Not set | 0 | 0 | Not set |
| Departmental files - Public Services (PBE to RSA) | 347 | 46.85 | 2776 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - Americas (SAA to WPA) | 356 | 48.06 | 2848 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - European Union (WPP to DCM) | 352 | 47.52 | 2816 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - International Security (DCT to EDL) | 278 | 37.53 | 2224 | Files | 1996 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues (EDL to FEH) | 340 | 45.9 | 2720 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - North Asia and Pacific (FEI to HKD) | 314 | 42.39 | 2512 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - Hong Kong and general (HKD to ICT) | 198 | 26.73 | 1584 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - General Services (IRA to MWE) | 328 | 44.28 | 2624 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - European Union (MWE to NFB) | 349 | 47.12 | 2792 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa (NFB to PBM) | 365 | 49.28 | 2920 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - Public Services (PBM to SAT) | 357 | 48.2 | 2856 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - Americas (SAT to WSC) | 369 | 49.82 | 2952 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - Wider Europe (WSC to DCC) | 165 | 22.28 | 1320 | Files | 1997 | |
| Departmental files - International Security (DCL to EKJ) | 290 | 39.15 | 2320 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - European Union, Wider Europe (EKJ to FEJ) | 354 | 47.79 | Not set | 2832 | Files | 1998 |
| Departmental files - North Asia and Pacific (FEJ to HKT) | 275 | 37.13 | 2200 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - Hong Kong and general (HKT to KKH) | 298 | 40.23 | 2384 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - European Union (KKH to MWP) | 299 | 40.37 | 2392 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - International Security (MWR to NPS) | 368 | 49.68 | 2944 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - Africa (NPS to QEI) | 269 | 36.32 | 2152 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations (QEJ to UNP) | 361 | 48.74 | 2888 | Files | 1998 | |
| Departmental files - Africa (UNR to CSP) | 364 | 49.14 | 2912 | Files | 1998-1999 | |
| Departmental files - European and Wider Europe | 344 | 46.44 | Not set | 2752 | Files | 1999 |
| Departmental files - Northern Asia and Pacific (EKK to FEO) | 305 | 41.18 | 2440 | Files | 1999 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues (FEQ to HRE) | 326 | 44.01 | 2608 | Files | 1999 | |
| Departmental files - Global Issues (HRE to MFG) | 330 | 44.55 | 2640 | Files | 1999 | |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa (MFS to NFM) | 323 | 43.61 | Not set | 2584 | Files | 1999 |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa, Consular (NFN to NTP) | 154 | 20.79 | Not set | 1232 | Files | 1999 |
| Departmental files - Overseas Territories and Africa Equatorial (OTA to QEA) | 272 | 36.72 | 2176 | Files | 1999 | |
| Departmental files - African Equatorial and Protocol (QEE to TXP) | 212 | 28.62 | Not set | 1696 | Files | 1999 |
| Departmental files - Protocol and Wider Europe (TXS to WSZ) | 291 | 39.29 | 2328 | Files | 1999 | |
| Departmental files - North America and Security Policy (AMC to DZX) | 282 | 38.07 | 2256 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - Environment Science and Energy (EDA to FAH) | 264 | 35.64 | 2112 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - South East Asian (FAJ to HIZ) | 314 | 42.39 | 2512 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - Human Rights and Legal Advisers (HRC to LGP) | 173 | 23.36 | 1384 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - European Union bilateral and European Integration - External (MBA to MXS) | 336 | 45.36 | 2688 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and Consular (MXS to NTZ) | 225 | 30.38 | 1800 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - Overseas Territories and Parliamentary Relations (OTA to PUF) | 236 | 31.86 | 1888 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - Parliamentary Relations, Protocol and Wider Europe (PUG to SCO) | 204 | 27.54 | Not set | 1632 | Files | 2000 |
| Departmental files - Protocol and North America (TXA to AMU) | 318 | 42.93 | 2544 | Files | 2000 | |
| Departmental files - Common Foreign Policy and Wider Europe (CFP to ENL) | 304 | 41.04 | Not set | 2432 | Files | 2001 |
| Departmental files - Wider Europe and public services (ENL to GVP) | 307 | 41.45 | 2456 | Files | 2001 | |
| Departmental files - Public Services and European Union bilateral (GVP to MBV) | 349 | 47.12 | 2792 | Files | 2001 | |
| Departmental files - European Union bilateral and International Security (MBX to NPE) | 353 | 47.66 | 2824 | Files | 2001 | |
| Departmental files - International Security and Parliamentary Relations (NPG to PUG) | 326 | 44.01 | 2608 | Files | 2001 | |
| Departmental files - Parliamentary Relations and United Nations (PUX to UNC) | 265 | 35.78 | 2120 | Files | 2001 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations and Africa Commonwealth (UND to CSR) | 276 | 37.26 | 2208 | Files | 2001-2002 | |
| Departmental files - Africa Commonwealth, European Union and Wider Europe (CSS to EKR) | 144 | 19.44 | Not set | 1152 | Files | 2002 |
| Departmental files - European Union and Wider Europe (EKR to ESJ) | 112 | 15.12 | Not set | 896 | Files | 2002 |
| Departmental files - Wider Europe and Asia Pacific (ESK to FEN) | 93 | 12.56 | 744 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Asia and Pacific and Latin America Caribbean (FEP to HBC) | 125 | 16.88 | 1000 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Latin America Caribbean and FCO Services (HBC to ICT) | 168 | 22.68 | 1344 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Resources and European Union (KKH to MWE) | 168 | 22.68 | 1344 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and Middle East and North Africa (MWE to NFZ) | 167 | 22.55 | Not set | 1336 | Files | 2002 |
| Departmental files - International Security and Overseas Territories (NPC to OTZ) | 164 | 22.14 | 1312 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Pan-Africa strategy and policy and Africa Equatorial (PAC to QWN) | 156 | 21.06 | 1248 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Africa Equatorial and Protocol (QWN to TWX) | 167 | 22.55 | 1336 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations and Africa (UNA to CSP) | 210 | 28.35 | 1680 | Files | 2002 | |
| Departmental files - Africa and Asia and Pacific (CSQ to FAG) | 249 | 33.62 | 1992 | Files | 2003 | |
| Departmental files - Asia and Pacific and Information Technology (FAG to ITP) | 252 | 34.02 | 2016 | Files | 2003 | |
| Departmental files - Information Technology and Middle East and North Africa (ITP to NBY) | 252 | 34.02 | Not set | 2016 | Files | 2003 |
| Departmental files - Middle East and North Africa and Parliamentary Relations (NEA to PUX) | 252 | 34.02 | Not set | 2016 | Files | 2003 |
| Departmental files - Parliamentary Relations and United Nations (PUX to UNR) | 243 | 32.81 | 1944 | Files | 2003 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations and European Union and Wider Europe (UNR to EEZ) | 250 | 33.75 | 2000 | Files | 2003 | |
| Departmental files - European Union and Wider Europe (EEZ to GVE) | 251 | 33.89 | 2008 | Files | 2004 | |
| Departmental files - Public Services and Middle East North Africa(GVO to NFB) | 250 | 33.75 | 2000 | Files | 2004 | |
| Departmental files - Middle East North Africa and Africa Equatorial (NFE to QES) | 248 | 33.48 | 1984 | Files | 2004 | |
| Departmental files - Africa Equatorial and United Nations (QET to UNP) | 176 | 23.76 | 1408 | Files | 2004 | |
| Departmental files - United Nations (UNR to UNR) | 39 | 5.27 | 312 | Files | 2004 | |
| Foreign Compensation Commission (FCC) Russia II | 811 | 109.49 | Compensation claims relating to Foreign Compensation (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) distribution order 1986 and 1987; case files relating to registration of claims for compensation under international and British law for losses suffered in Russia | 8585 | Files | 1959-1989 |
| Foreign Compensation Commission (FCC); China and Korea (Corea) | 36 | 4.86 | files related to Foreign Compensation Commission | 1080 | Enveloped papers | 1867-1941 |
| FCO Claims Department; Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department registers of overseas property owned and monies due (Germany) | 40 | 5.4 | Collection of bound registers compiled by the Board of Trade Trading with the Enemy Department recording registrations of details by British nationals residing in the UK of the property they owned or companies they had registered, that were situated in the enemy territories of Germany. A similar register captures data about monies owed to persons (including companies) in the UK by Germans. Each type of register captures the date the details were registered, the name of the individual and their signature followed by appropriate registration information such as: address of property owned, amount of debt, the name and address of the debtor, description of property owned, the estimated value of property. Each registration page bears a unique Board of Trade Trading with the Enemy reference number for that named individual. | 37 | Bound volumes | 1940-1949 |
| Foreign Compensation Commission (FCC); China and Korea (Corea) | 300 | 40.5 | Case files mainly on Shanghai (with some on Corea [sic]) concerning court proceedings for appeals, small claims, admiralty, bankruptcies, criminal cases, 'lunacy', administration of deceased's' estates, post mortem's and inquests | 6250 | Enveloped papers | 1867-1941 |
| FCO overseas and home estate property title deeds and associated records files | 120 | 16.2 | Five filing cabinets containing title deed documents, rental and lease agreements, property sale transfer and ownership records and associated correspondence. The records relate to the overseas estate and the FCO home estate The papers and documents are typically stored in folders by post name and frequently incorporate architectural technical drawings of building, site and floor plans with some photographs; some files also include technical memorandums of understanding, technical feasibility study reports and material on how a particular property was bequeathed, acquired; there are also a number of documents specific to the Tientsin concessions leases and similar agreements granted to the British by China (with parallel translations in Chinese);and a separate collection of historic deeds and documents that all appear to relate principally to the British Embassy, Paris from 1814, and also the Hertford British Hospital, Paris; lastly there is a collection of floor plans of overseas and home estate buildings including the Houses of Parliament and Lancaster House; Ambassadors and Consul residences, mission offices, staff living quarters and amenities; British Cottage Hospital, Tangiers minute books 1901 to 1950; Deed records registers (1983 - 2008) | 960 | Files, loose papers and floor plans, architectural technical drawings | 1814-2008 |
| Argentine and Chile frontier case: maps | 4 | 0.54 | Map folders containing 56 maps concerning the Argentine - Chile frontier case (memorial of the Argentine Republic). Each map has been assigned a unique number which corresponds with an index that details the name of the map, scale, sheet number and source/date of survey. The majority are copies of maps surveyed in the early 20th Century or earlier, but which were printed onto paper in the 1960s. There are some trace overlays to fit over map sheets. The border information for many maps is written in Spanish. | 80 | flat map folders | 1965 |
| Estate Records aperture cards | 15 | 2.03 | A series of architectural and mechanical and engineering drawings, sections, details, plans and elevations of buildings, site plans, maps and landscaping proposals for Foreign Office overseas estate stored on aperture cards, each card holds a single image. Overseas Foreign Office staff accommodation, residences, Embassy or High Commission building, offices, car parks at British High Commissions, Embassies and Legations in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mexico City, Accra, Belgrade, Canberra, Riyadh and numerous other overseas posts. Some drawings were produced by the Department of Environment (DOE), earlier ones are marked Ministry of Public Buildings and Works (MPBW). The cards on which the slides are mounted are labelled Major Projects Overseas Estates Department | 40000 | Aperture cards | 1951-1980 |
| Hong Kong records series; government department microfiche files | 10 | 1.35 | Hong Kong government files | 5880 | Microfrom | 1946-1997 |
| Hong Kong records series; British military administration microfiche files | 6 | 0.81 | British military administration files | 9576 | Microform | 1946-1995 |
| Private Office papers; Private Secretary Notebooks that relate to Robin Cook and Jack Straw | 1 | 0.14 | Undated manuscript notes of discussions involving the Foreign Secretary on a wide range of issues. Most of the notebooks appear to relate to Robin Cook and Jack Straw's tenures as Foreign Secretary. A few are unclear as to which Foreign Secretary they relate to. | 15 | A6 notebooks | 1997- |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (JOHN BATTLE) | 2 | 0.27 | Collections of papers relating to issues in South East Asia; the United Nations; Human Rights Policy; the Overseas Territories; Near East Asia and the Pacific; China and Hong Kong; British Trade International; Counter Terrorism Policy; Public Diplomacy; Drugs and International Crime; Environmental Policy; Latin America and the Caribbean; office management | 16 | loose papers | 1999-2001 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (JOHN BATTLE) | 1 | 0.14 | Desk Diary; List of Engagements; Speeches | 4 | notebooks, printed lists | 1999 -2000 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (TONY LLOYD) | 2 | 0.27 | Desk Diaries; Lists of Engagements; printed list of overseas visits and diary | 3 | notebooks, printed lists | 1997-1999 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (EARL of CAITHNESS) | 1 | 0.14 | HM Treasury personal file; desk diary; letter floats containing copies of outward letters, minutes and telegrams sent from the Minister of State's Office | 5 | Files, bundles | 1989-1992 |
| Hammond Inquiry papers | 5 | 0.68 | Files relating to the Independent Inquiry by Sir Anthony Hammond from the Permanent Under Secretary of State (SIR JOHN KERR). These include papers from various areas within the FCO including Minister's Private Office's. | 29 | Files | 2001 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (ROBIN COOK) | 1 | 0.14 | Printed diary; desk diary | 5 | bundles | 1997-2001 |
| Board of Management papers | 3 | 0.41 | Papers for consideration by the FCO Management Board at its monthly meetings. Includes agenda and minutes of the meetings as well as some relevant correspondence and one file on an away day event held at Chevening. The material is from the office of the PUS who chaired board meetings. | 24 | loose papers, file | 1999- 2000 |
| Rhodesia. Papers of Lord Carver's Secretariat | 1 | 0.14 | Secretariat papers taken to Rhodesia by a member of Field Marshal Lord Carver's team (Lt. Col W E Rous) after he was appointed Resident-Commissioner-designate for Rhodesia. The papers were returned from BHC Salisbury along with other later material | 5 | Files | 1977- 1982 |
| News Department Output | 25 | 3.38 | Daily bulletins; press releases; operational notes; speeches; transcripts ; Foreign Secretary's rolling media programme | 150 | loose papers | 1997-2001 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (LYNDA CHALKER) | 5 | 0.68 | Outward messages from Lynda Chalker's office; letters to the public; speeches; invitations accepted; thank you letters; overseas trips; European Community; women and public appointments; newspaper articles and interviews by Mrs Chalker | 40 | Files | 1986-1989 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (GILLIAN MERRON) | 1 | 0.14 | Messages to Gillian Merron's office | 1 | ring binder | 2008-2009 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (MEG MUNN) | 1 | 0.14 | Inward messages to Meg Munn's office; outward messages from Meg Munn's office; | 4 | ring binders | 2007 -2008 |
| Private Office papers; Minister for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs (IAN McCARTNEY) | 1 | 0.14 | Outward messages from Ian McCartney's office; inward messages to Ian McCartney's office | 2 | ring binders | 2006-2007 |
| Defence Department (DPN and DPP series) files | 4 | 0.54 | A number of highly classified DPN, DPP series files and annexes to files dealing with a range of sensitive issues kept separate from the main body of files. | 24 | Files | 1981-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary (SIR DAVID GILLMORE) | 22 | 2.97 | Material from the PUS's office on a range of subjects comprising files, letter floats, Inward Logs, Outward Logs; record of destruction; copying of classified papers and copies of the monthly letter to Heads of Mission | 150 | Files, loose papers | 1991-1994 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (LORD GLENARTHUR) | 3 | 0.41 | Outgoing messages from Lord Glenarthur's office; speeches, | 24 | loose papers | 1986-1989 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (LORD GORONWY-ROBERTS) | 1 | 0.14 | A small bundle of papers on a range of subjects | 11 | loose papers | 1977-1978 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State (Baroness Scotland and Baroness Amos) | 1 | 0.14 | Desk diary; long term programme | 3 | diaries, loose papers | 1999-2001 |
| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (CHRIS MULLIN) | 1 | 0.14 | Desk diary | 1 | diary | 2004 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary (SIR JOHN KERR) | 6 | 0.81 | Material from the PUS's office comprising travel files, budget files, weekly programme, meetings and functions, desk diaries, letter floats | 48 | Files, diaries, ring binders | 1997-2002 |
| SIR JEREMY GREENSTOCK | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating to the Anglo German Summit and to the handling of requests from other departments for briefing by FCO | 2 | loose papers | 1992-1993 |
| Private Office papers; Precedent Files | 6 | 0.81 | Selected documents providing legal, procedural or other precedents for future reference by FCO Private Secretaries and Ministers. Also documents providing guidance. Lists of cabinet documents returned to the Cabinet Office for destruction. | 50 | folders, loose papers | 1962 |
| International Section; library and records department papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating the transfer to Library and Records Department and the closure of International Section. | 6 | Files, loose papers | 1992-1994 |
| India Office library; library and records department papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating to the dispute over ownership of the India Office library and records. Includes copies of historical background material and correspondence on particular works of art | 8 | Files, loose papers | 1990-1996 |
| Private Office papers; Foreign Secretary (GEORGE BROWN) visits overseas; administration files | 1 | 0.14 | Papers relating to the administrative arrangements for the Foreign Secretary's visits overseas | 8 | Files | 1967-1968 |
| Private Office papers; Foreign Secretary Diaries (GEOFFERY HOWE and DAVID MILIBAND) | 1 | 0.14 | Diaries | 1 | Diary | 1983 and 2007 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary (SIR MICHAEL PALLISER) | 121 | 16.34 | Files received from the PUS's office comprising briefs for his visits overseas, outgoing minutes and letters, travel files, budget files, weekly programme, meetings and functions, desk diaries, letter floats; index cards of letters out from 1970-1981. Also typed index cards covering diplomatic talks, communiqués, visits, , discussions, agreements | 1000 | Files, index cards | 1975-1982 |
| Private Office papers; (SIR CON O'NEIL) Accession to Europe | 22 | 2.97 | Papers relating to the UK's negotiations with the European Economic Community concerning entry into the EEC. These include a large number of Cabinet Committee papers (Ministerial Committee on the approach to Europe (AE); Ministerial Committee on Europe (EUM); Sub committee on negotiations (EURM(N); Cabinet Official Committee on the Approach to Europe (AE(O)and EURO); Sub Committee on Financial and monetary aspects (AEO(F) and EURO(F); Working Group on Scientific and Technological Co-operation (EURO(S)); European Interdepartmental Unit (EU)); records of conversations , mainly of Sir Geoffrey Rippon, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; working group on Europe (WGE); telegrams on various issues; papers of the conference between the European Communities and the States which have applied for European Membership; FCO prints relating to visits of the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Brussels Negotiations(1961-1963) and the record of discussions with the Commonwealth developing countries about sugar; communication of the Commission to the Council concerning the transitional arrangements for community enlargement; papers relating to negotiations in the early 1960s | 110 | Files, folders, loose documents | 1969-1971 |
| Rhodesia: British Commission on Rhodesian Opinion (Pearce Commission) | 2 | 0.27 | Files relating to administrative arrangements for the work of the Pearce Commission in Rhodesia. These include individual files on each Commissioner during their appointment. | 16 | Files, loose papers | 1972 |
| 1992 Election Papers | 1 | 0.14 | Papers for the 1992 General Election covering guidance for officials and the process for the preparation of briefing for incoming Ministers. Action after the election. | 8 | file, loose papers | 1992 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary of State (SIR PATRICK WRIGHT;SIR DAVID GILMORE; SIR JOHN COLES) `I' folders | 1 | 0.14 | Folders 1 - 37 plus one un-numbered folder from the PUS's office. | 26 | folders | 1988-1995 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary of State (SIR JOHN COLES) | 6 | 0.81 | JC and SJC series files | 47 | folders, loose papers | 1994-1997, 1998 |
| Private Office papers; Lord Privy Seal (EDWARD HEATH) Speeches | 6 | 0.81 | Speeches by the Lord Privy Seal arranged in alphabetical order, some departmental briefs and notes on miscellaneous topics, Common Market notes | 48 | loose papers | 1960- 62 |
| Private Office papers; SIR PETER MARSHALL, UK Permanent Representative to Geneva | 7 | 0.95 | A series of files dealing with issues in which UK Perm Rep was involved. | 56 | Files | 1968- 1983 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (FRANCIS MAUDE) | 3 | 0.41 | Outgoing messages from Mr Maude's office; speeches given by Mr Maude; invitations accepted, overseas trips and letters of thanks sent; letters sent to Mr Maude and replies issued | 20 | folders | 1989-1990 |
| Minister of State Diaries | 3 | 0.41 | Desk diaries relating various Ministers of State. | 15 | desk diaries | 1970-79, 1991-1993 |
| Private Office papers; Lists of Private Office Papers | 1 | 0.14 | Reference material relating papers held by Private Offices; lists of files; lists of Secretaries of State from 1761; guidance for transfer to LRD; | 10 | folders | 1935- 1990 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of States' Printed Diary for October, 1992- December 1993 | 1 | 0.07 | Printed diary of engagements | 1 | ring binder | 1992-93 |
| Ministry of Public Works and Department of the Environment files | 3 | 0.41 | Files relating to proposals for work to be carried out by the Ministry of Public Works, etc in public buildings overseas. | 8 | Files | 1963-1968 |
| Private Office papers; Political Adviser (DAVID STEPHEN) to the Secretary of State | 10 | 1.35 | Files containing correspondence of a party political (i.e. Labour Party) nature | 60 | Files | 1977-1979 |
| Lane Picture Committee and correspondence | 1 | 0.14 | Empty box except for note requesting the pps and which shows they were passed to Margaret Cousins in 1993. | 0 | 0 | Not set |
| Appointment of British EC Commissioners | 1 | 0.14 | Papers considering British nominations for EC Commissioners; | 2 | Files | 1984, 1989-1992 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (MARK LENNOX-BOYD and TONY BALDRY) | 3 | 0.41 | Material relating primarily to Mr Lennox-Boyd's tenure: outgoing letters to MPs; outgoing messages from Mr Lennox-Boyd's office; reports of overseas visits; requests to the Secretary of State to travel overseas; desk diaries | 12 | Files, desk diaries | 1992-1995 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs (MIKE O'BRIEN) | 1 | 0.14 | Printed diary of engagements | 1 | loose papers | 2002-2003 |
| Minister of State (GEOFF HOON) | 1 | 0.14 | Material from Mr Hoon's Private Office: letter float of outgoing letters and minutes; lists showing Mr Hoon's travel plans and long term engagements | 3 | file, loose papers | 1999 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (BILL RAMMELL) and Minister for Europe (PETER HAIN) | 8 | 1.08 | Material from Mr Rammell's and Mr Hain's Private Offices: correspondence concerning engagements; invitations which were declined | 40 | loose papers | 2002-2005 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (TIM SAINSBURY) | 7 | 0.95 | Material from Mr Sainsbury's Private Office: letter floats of outgoing letters to MPs; float files of outgoing correspondence from the Private Office | 18 | Files | 1989-1990 |
| Private Office papers; Special Advisers and the appointment of Parliamentary Private Secretaries | 1 | 0.14 | A single file containing mainly guidance papers and papers relating to the appointment of David Stephen, SPAD to David Owen | 1 | file | 1974-79 |
| Private Office papers; Minister for Europe (JOYCE QUINN) | 5 | 0.68 | Material from Ms. Quinn's Private Office: float files of outgoing messages; long term programme of engagements; travel arrangements; | 40 | loose papers | 1988-1999 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (MALCOLM RIFKIND) files | 3 | 0.41 | Material from Mr Rifkind's Private Office: visits overseas; record of calls and meetings; correspondence on a range of subjects | 24 | loose papers | 1984-1986 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (MALCOLM RIFKIND) | 1 | 0.14 | A printed diary and a file from the Private Office | 1 | diary, file | 1995-1997 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (TED ROWLANDS) | 8 | 1.08 | Material from Mr Rowland's Private Office: outgoing letters; outgoing minutes; visits; float files; earlier documents relating to sanction busting brought together following publication of the Bingham Report on Oil Supplies to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) | 64 | loose papers | 1976-1979 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (SIR GEOFFREY HOWE) and LADY ELSPETH HOWE letters | 1 | 0.14 | Sir Geoffrey's correspondence with constituents and with the University of Wales. Also a collection of letters exchanged with Lady Elspeth Howe | 3 | loose copies | 1987-1989 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (DOUGLAS HOGG) | 5 | 0.68 | Material from Mr Hogg's Private Office: float files containing outgoing messages; desk diaries and printed diaries; list of engagements. | 20 | folders, diaries | 1993-1994 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (DOUG HENDERSON) | 10 | 1.35 | Files from Mr Henderson's Private Office: letters to House of Lords; letters to MEPs; minutes to internal departments; letters to overseas missions; speeches; letters from MPs; minutes to other departments; letters to Legislation Committee of both Houses of Parliament; letters to UK Missions Overseas; conferences; letters to and from organisations; letters to other Government Departments; transfer letters; invitations; foreign events; explanatory memoranda; replies to MPs; long term programme; float files | 25 | Files, loose papers | 1997 -1998 |
| Private Office papers; Minister for Europe (DAVID HEATHCOTE-AMORY) | 1 | 0.14 | Files from Mr Heathcote-Amory's office: letters to Government Whips; House of Lords; administration; members of the public; transfer letters | 5 | Files, loose papers | 1993-1994 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State Diary (DOUGLAS HURD) | 1 | 0.14 | A single printed diary | 1 | diary, file | 1994 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (ALISTAIR GOODLAD) | 8 | 1.08 | Files from Mr Goodlad's Private Office: desk diaries; float files; MPs' letters | 60 | diaries, loose papers | 1993-1995 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary of State (PATRICK WRIGHT) | 25 | 3.38 | Files on a wide range of subjects; diaries, including speeches and interviews by Sir Patrick; logs of inward and outward letters; letter floats; | 200 | Files | 1986-1991 |
| Private Office papers; Foreign Secretary Diary (DOUGLAS HURD) | 1 | 0.14 | Desk diaries; printed diary of engagements | 8 | diaries, loose papers | 1990- 1994 |
| Agreements between the UK and Sarawak | 1 | 0.14 | Two agreements with Sarawak | 2 | loose copies | 1941, 1946 |
| Private Office papers; Ministers of State (JOSEPH GODBER, JULIAN AMERY and ROY HATTERSLEY) Parliamentary Under Secretary of State ( EVAN LUARD) | 2 | 0.27 | A collection of registers of Ministerial correspondence | 11 | notebooks | 1971-74, 1977-1979 |
| European Commissioner (GEORGE THOMSON) | 12 | 1.62 | Desk diaries; float files; written articles; Article 154 and co-ordination; European Community documents | 27 | diaries, lever arch Files | 1971-72, 1974 |
| Information Research Department (IRD) Northern Ireland files | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files, folders, loose papers | 1969-1975, 1990 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (GEOFFREY HOWE) | 4 | 0.54 | Outgoing letters in chronological order | 32 | loose papers | 1985 |
| Falkland Islands Conflict | 1 | 0.14 | A collection of briefs and submissions in folders marked `Falkland Islands Review' sent for archiving by J B URE. The material covers a wide range of aspects concerning the lead up to the invasion. | 5 | folders | 1981-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Lord Trefgarne) files | 1 | 0.14 | Files from Lord Trefgarne's Private Office: FCO internal minutes; correspondence with Foreign Ministers and Ambassadors; correspondence with members of the House of Lords; general correspondence; records of meetings; correspondence with other Ministers; correspondence with Ambassadors | 7 | Files | 1981-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Private Secretary notebooks | 1 | 0.14 | Private Secretary notebooks recording discussions involving relevant Ministers | 130 | A6 notebooks | 1976- |
| Private Office papers; Minister for Europe (KEITH VAZ) | 2 | 0.27 | Material from Mr Vaz's Private Office: float files | 5 | Files, loose papers | 1999 |
| Minister of State files (WILLIAM WALDEGRAVE) | 9 | 1.22 | Material from Mr Waldegrave's Private Office: outward letters; minutes; outward telegrams; speeches; records of meetings; interviews; newspaper articles | 34 | folders | 1989-1990 |
| Malta Dockyard: Bailey Case (SIR EDWARD WARNER) papers | 1 | 0.14 | Sir Edward Warner's papers of advice to HMG about the Malta Dockyard case. | 6 | Files | 1971-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (LADY YOUNG) | 1 | 0.14 | Speeches by Baroness Young | 8 | loose papers | 1984-1986 |
| European Defence papers (SIR JOHN GOULDEN) | 10 | 1.35 | Key documents on the evolution of European defence policy archived by Sir John Goulden, UKDelNATO | 30 | folders, loose papers | 1990-1992, 1996-2000 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State Float files (DEREK FATCHETT, GEOFFREY HOON, PETER HAIN, BRIAN WILSON JEREMY HANLEY, ALISTAIR GOODLAD ) | 30 | 4.05 | Copies of letters, minutes and MPs' letters from Ministers of State and their Personal Secretaries | 30 | lever arch files | 1998-2001 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State Speeches and Guess Lists (JEREMY HANLEY and ALISTAIR GOODLAD) | 2 | 0.27 | Copies of speeches by Mr HANLEY and Mr GOODLAD and guest lists for events they attended. | 2 | lever arch files | 1994-2000 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary (SIR ANTONY ACLAND) | 43 | 5.81 | Material from the PUS's office comprising desk diaries, letter floats, personalities files and subject files covering public appointments and cabinet appointments; civil service and administration of central government departments and secretariats; bilateral relations with other countries; multilateral relations; relations with international organisations; external and political tours and visits; terrorist activities; national defence policy and budget; international defence matters and visits; defence bases and facilities; exchange and release of military information; appointments of service attaches; nuclear weapons and equipment; international economic relations; aid and technical assistance from the UK; international trade matters; internal energy situation; transport; maritime law and safety at sea; supplementary communications systems; students and student welfare; cultural societies and organisations; museums, antiquities, Chevening; feature articles and second rights; broadcasting and radio tapes; Wilton Park; archives; passport procedures; staff travels and duty tours; honours and awards; royal visits; diplomatic and consular corps credentials; protection of diplomatic and consular Staff; office organisation and management; staff grading promotions and career; documents security; security vetting; mission and entertainment funds | 344 | Files, | 1982- 1986 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (DR LIAM FOX) | 10 | 1.35 | Material from Dr Fox's Private Office including diaries, float files; Hansard extracts, and overseas visits folders containing briefs and other supporting documents, material from non government sources, records of meetings and reporting | 80 | loose papers, booklets | 1996-1997 |
| Private Office papers; Minister for Europe (PETER HAIN) | 6 | 0.81 | Material from Mr Hain's Private Office: papers relating to the engagements he attended, includes daily engagement cards | 48 | loose papers, cards | 2001 -2002 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (PETER BLAKER) | 6 | 0.81 | Material from Mr Blaker's Private Office: copies of outward letters and minutes; speeches; records of conversations; visits abroad; | 42 | Files | 1979 -1981 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (LORD BRABAZON OF TARA) | 6 | 0.81 | Material from Lord Brabazon's Private Office: outward minutes to FCO departments; outward letters; outward telegrams; letter floats | 48 | Files, loose papers | 1989-1990 |
| Private Office papers; Permanent Under Secretary of State (SIR THOMAS BRIMELOW) | 9 | 1.22 | Material from Sir Thomas's Private Office: outward letters and minutes; speeches; Cabinet Committee papers register; inward register of documents; economic background papers; diaries; monthly letters | 50 | Files, diaries, loose papers, indexes | 1973-1975 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (SIR NICHOLAS BONSOR) | 1 | 0.14 | Material received from Sir Nicholas's Private Office printed diary; desk diary; outward letters; some outward minting to FCO departments; desk diaries | 4 | loose papers | 1997 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (DAVID DAVIS) | 1 | 0.14 | Desk Diaries | 1 | diaries | 1993-1997 |
| HM Ambassador Bonn (SIR JULIAN BULLARD) | 1 | 0.14 | Key documents relating to Germany received from Sir Julian Bullard, HMA Bonn | 5 | folders | 1984-1988 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (DOUGLAS HOGG ) | 4 | 0.54 | Material from Mr Hogg's Private Office: float files; replies to MPs' letters; weekly round up of decisions; visits overseas; files | 25 | Files, folders | 1993-1995 |
| Private Office papers; Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (TONY BALDRY) | 5 | 0.68 | Material from Mr Baldry's Private Office: letter floats; replies to MPs' letters; desk diary | 22 | loose papers, diary | 1994-1995 |
| RHODESIA: Investigation into the supply of petroleum products to Rhodesia (BINGHAM INQUIRY) | 27 | 3.65 | Records of Mr Thomas Bingham's Inquiry set up in 1977 and related FCO material, including lists of documents requested and provided to Mr Bingham; correspondence files; transcripts of oral evidence; exhibits to the Inquiry; draft report; submissions; comments; documents in Portuguese from the Portuguese Government and Jorge Jardim; Working Papers; non government publications; submissions in response to Mr Bingham's letter of 27 July 1977; chronologies. Post publication correspondence includes a file on papers not submitted to the investigation. | 80 | loose papers, Files, folders | 1964-1968 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (SIR GEOFFREY HOWE) | 80 | 10.8 | Material from Sir Geoffrey’s Private Office: submissions and minutes log; overseas despatch log; UK despatch log; letters from the Foreign Secretary; letters to the Foreign Secretary, including information copies; minutes from Private Secretaries; outward telegrams; minutes to the Prime Minister; folder containing copies of letters dated 16-18 July 1985 from the Foreign Secretary taken from PS files; papers relating to EC meetings in Stuttgart (1983), including follow up negotiations; papers relating to the EC meeting in Fontainebleau (1984); speeches; speeches by US leaders; record of conversations and meetings; Foreign Secretary statements; messages to Foreign Secretary; messages from Foreign Secretary; messages from Heads of Government to Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary; Prime Minister's messages to Heads of Government; record of Prime Minister's meetings and conversations; letters from No.10 classified Secret; record of conversations; interviews; declined invitations; float files; Lady Howe | 640 | loose papers; log books; | 1983, 1985- 1989 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (DAVID MILLIBAND) | 20 | 2.7 | Material received from Mr Milliband's Private Office comprising folders dealing with invitations; printed diaries; Carlton Gardens; Chevening; diplomatic dinners, lunches, given by the Foreign Secretary; travel arrangements Threat assessments and security inspections; change of Secretary of State; gifts; permission to travel from No.10; Complaint to the Press Complaints Commission; The Independent's Pandora comments | 100 | loose papers, files | 1995-2001, 2007, 2008, |
| Private Office papers; SIR ARTHUR CLARK | 3 | 0.41 | Collection of papers relating to Sir Arthur's diplomatic career dealing with developments in Cyprus, Maldives, Swaziland Bechuanaland, Botswana and Rhodesia. The collection includes PUS letters, papers relating the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Meeting, 1965 and Cabinet Official Committee on Rhodesia (MISC 100). There is also a small number of Labour Party Post War Finance Sub Committee dealing with taxation issues. BBC; Gan; Maldives Protection Agreement; Central African Council; future of East Africa; Pan African Conference; reform of the training of the post war colonial service; higher direction of war; post war British foreign policy; colonial policy; Sertese; African local government; High Commission Territories; Cyprus Conference; peace keeping force; partition; Valedictory Despatch; Cyprus Fortnightly Summary; evacuation of civilians; Background notes on the formation of the Republic of Cyprus | 24 | loose papers | 1942-1966 |
| Private Office papers; Rhodesia: Governor and Commander In Chief (SIR HUMPHREY GIBBS) | 2 | 0.27 | Material from Sir Humphrey's Private Office. Includes Declaration of a State of Emergency; HMS Tiger meetings; Visits by Lord Alport, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and George Thomson | 5 | files, loose papers | 1965- 1969 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (LORD CARRINGTON) | 13 | 1.76 | Material from Lord Carrington's Private Office including minutes from the Prime Minister to the Foreign Secretary; Prime Minister's record of conversations: Prime Minister's messages to/from Heads of Government; minutes from the Foreign Secretary to the Prime Minister; minutes from Cabinet Ministers to the Prime Minister; Foreign Secretary's record of conversations and meetings; minutes from the Foreign Secretary to other Ministers; minutes between other Ministers copied to the Foreign Secretary; minutes from other Ministers to the Foreign Secretary; speeches; statements; interviews; personal files; Private Secretary messages; messages to the Foreign Secretary; Desk diaries. Topics covered include Rhodesia: 1981 European Councils; Western strategy in the wake of Afghanistan; Namibia; US foreign policy; House of Lords Reform; Falkland Islands | 104 | files, loose papers | 1979-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Secretary of State (JIM CALLAGHAN) | 5 | 0.68 | Material from Mr Callaghan's Private Office comprising copies of letters between Cabinet Ministers copied for information to the Foreign Secretary; letters and minutes from Foreign Secretary to the Prime Minister; minutes from the Prime Minister to the Foreign Secretary; visits to Europe, the Far East, Iran and Scandinavia; permissions to travel abroad; record of Foreign Secretary's conversations; record of conversations of other FCO Ministers; Prime Minister's speeches and statements; Foreign Secretary's speeches and statements; record of meetings of other FCO Ministers; Foreign Secretary's messages to `The Nine'; Foreign Secretary's messages to Commonwealth Countries; Foreign Secretary's message to and from the United States; record of Prime Minister's discussions; personal folder of EAJ Ferguson (Private Secretary); Crown Prince of Ethiopia; Maharaja of Jaipur | 31 | files | 1976 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (RICHARD LUCE) | 1 | 0.14 | Material received from Mr Luce's Private Office solely concerned with the crisis in the South Atlantic and leading to the Argentinean invasion of the Falkland Islands | 1 | file | 1982 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (NICHOLAS RIDLEY) | 1 | 0.14 | Material received from Mr Ridley's Private Office solely concerned with the crisis in the South Atlantic and leading to the Argentinean invasion of the Falkland Islands | 4 | files | 1979-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Lord Privy Seal (HUMPHREY ATKINS) | 2 | 0.27 | Material received from Mr Atkins's Private Office comprising folders dealing with speeches; record of meetings; letter, minutes and telegrams | 7 | folders, loose papers | 1981-1982 |
| Private Office papers; Lord Privy Seal (SIR IAN GILMOUR) | 8 | 1.08 | Material received from Sir Ian's Private Office comprising speeches; record of meetings; float files of outgoing letters | 42 | folders, loose papers | 1979-1981 |
| Private Office papers; Minister of State (CRANLEY ONSLOW) | 1 | 0.14 | Material received from Mr Onslow's Private Office comprising papers sent for information, including non-official publications Visit to West Indies; US policy in Central America; Belize and Central America; Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, St. Lucia; Aid Expenditure prospects 1984, 1985 -1986, 1987; Guyana; Bolivia; El Salvador; Bahamas; Venezuela and Guyana dispute; overseas student fees; St Christopher and Nevis | 2 | folders, loose papers | 1982-1983 |
| Cabinet Documents Officer | 18 | 2.43 | Cabinet documents - which the Cabinet Documents Officer should have destroyed locally on a change of Administration | 144 | 0 | Not set |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | 6 | 0.81 | Treasury briefs | 48 | loose papers | Not set |
| Departmental Files: ADA | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: North American (AM) AMC | 2 | 0.27 | Not set | 16 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Global and Economic Issues Directorate (CG) | 2 | 0.27 | Not set | 16 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Conflict Issues Group - Peacekeeping Team (CI) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Central and Southern African Department (CS) CSA | 26 | 3.51 | Not set | 208 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Information and Communication Technology Group (CT) CTA | 3 | 0.41 | Not set | 24 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Drugs and International Crime Department (DD) | 8 | 1.08 | Not set | 64 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Security Policy Department (DZ) | 21 | 2.84 | Not set | 168 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: prefix not found | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: European Union (External) (EE) | 33 | 4.46 | Not set | 264 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: EU External Assistant Directorate (EH) | 11 | 1.49 | Not set | 88 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: European Union Assistant Directorate (Internal) (EI) | 30 | 4.05 | Not set | 240 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Eastern Adriatic Department (EK) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: European Union (Mediterranean) (EM) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Europe Directorate General ERA | 2 | 0.27 | Not set | 16 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Eastern Department ESA | 11 | 1.49 | Not set | 88 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: South-East Asian Department (FA) | 21 | 2.84 | Not set | 168 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Far Eastern Department (FE) | 12 | 1.62 | Not set | 96 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Far Eastern Group (FG) | 25 | 3.38 | Not set | 200 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Financial Planning & Performance Department (FP) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: South Asian (FS) | 30 | 4.05 | Not set | 240 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Global Business Group (GB) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Global Economy Group (GE) | 9 | 1.22 | Not set | 72 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Science and Innovation Group (GS) | 4 | 0.54 | Not set | 32 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Migration and Visa (GV) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Latin America Caribbean Department (HB) | 24 | 3.24 | Not set | 192 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Latin America & Caribbean Department (HI) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Human Rights Policy Department (HR) | 33 | 4.46 | Not set | 264 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Sustainable Development and Commonwealth Group (HS) | 8 | 1.08 | Not set | 64 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Information Management Group (IM) | 12 | 1.62 | Not set | 96 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: International Organisations Department (IN) | 29 | 3.92 | Not set | 232 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Information Technology Directorate (IT) | 7 | 0.95 | Not set | 56 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: prefix not found | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Legal Advisors (LG) | 12 | 1.62 | LGE 012/001 - 372/001; LGH 230/001 - 241/021; LGJ 372/C-52 - 372/C-505; LGP 224/001 - 380/002 | 96 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Financial Relations (MF) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: European Union Department (External) (MXE) | 3 | 0.41 | Not set | 24 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Middle East Department (NB) | 16 | 2.16 | Not set | 128 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Near Eastern & North African (NF) | 26 | 3.51 | Not set | 208 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: prefix not found | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Non-Proliferation Department (NP) | 24 | 3.24 | Not set | 192 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Iraq Directorate (NR) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Nationality, Treaty and Claims Department (NT) | 23 | 3.11 | Not set | 184 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Organisation Project Team (of Private Offices, Strategy Units & Other) (OP) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Overseas Territory Dept (OT) | 65 | 8.78 | Not set | 520 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Africa Strategy Unit (PA) | 3 | 0.41 | Not set | 24 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Public Diplomacy Dept (PB) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Public Diplomacy Policy Dept (PE) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Partnerships & Networks Development Unit (PG) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Parliamentary Relations & Devolution Dept (PU) | 11 | 1.49 | Not set | 88 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: African Department (Equatorial) (QE) | 16 | 2.16 | Not set | 128 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: African Department (Equatorial) (QW) | 25 | 3.38 | Not set | 200 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Policy Planning Staff (RS) | 4 | 0.54 | Not set | 32 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Technical and Protective Security (TP) | 7 | 0.95 | Not set | 56 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Protocol Division (TX) | 54 | 7.29 | Not set | 432 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: United Nations Dept (UN) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2005 |
| Departmental files: Afghan Drugs & Inter-Departmental Unit (AD) | 2 | 0.27 | Not set | 16 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: North American (AM) | 7 | 0.95 | Not set | 56 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Consular Dept (CE) | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Global & Economic Issues Directorate (CG) | 3 | 0.41 | Not set | 24 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Conflict Issues Group - Peacekeeping Team (CI) | 7 | 0.95 | CIG 011/001 - 051/004; CIP 057/024; CIK 016/001 - 242/001 | 56 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Information and Communication Technology Group (CT) CTA | 2 | 0.27 | CTA 197/001 - 332/001; CTS 016/001 - 440/001 | 16 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Drugs and International Crime Department (DD) | 8 | 1.08 | DDC 021/001 - 382/001; DDD 024/002 - 385/002; DDE 295/001 - 384/001; DDG 385/001 - 385/070; DDM 410/001 | 64 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Security Policy Department (DZ) | 25 | 3.38 | DZA 074/032 - 074/086; DZC 081/001; DZD 081/001 - 081/009; DZF 011/007 - 076/002; DZH 081/001 - 081/003; DZK 274/001 - 274/018; DZM 073/001 - 084/043; DZN 010/001 - 453/001; DZR 084/001 - 084/074; DZT 083/002 - 083/003; DZU 012/001 - 441/002; DZZ 083/001 - 083/025; DZX 083/001 - 083/002 | 200 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: European Union (external) (EE) | 19 | 2.57 | EEA 020/002 - 014/005; EEB 014/002 - 397/001; EEC 012/001 - 410/001; EEE 011/001 - 400/002; EEF 011/001 - 410/001; EEG 002/003 - 410/003; EEK 010/001 - 020/001; EEM 020/002 - 021/003; EEO 021/002 - 094/002; EEP 022/003 - 022/004; EES 010/001 - 026/001; EET 021/001 - 453/001; EEZ 014/001 - 400/002 | 152 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: European Union Assistant Directorate (internal) (EI) | 23 | 3.11 | EIA 020/001 - 027/001; EIB 095/002 - 095/003; EIC 012/026 - 284/001; EID 012/001 - 372/006; EIE 001/005 - 011/008; EIF 018/001 - 431/001; EIG 020/002 - 022/001; EIH 011/001 - 024/001; EIK 020/001 - 400/001; EII 016/003; EIL 020/001 - 400/001; EIM 020/001; EIN 020/001 - 027/001; EIO 020/001 - 090/001; EIR 091/002 - 122/001; EIP 161/001 - 300/001; EIR 100/002 - 100/004; EIS 018/001 - 400/002; EIT 134/001; EIU 130/001 - 154/002; EIW 120/001 - 271/002; EIX 014/001 - 051/002 | 184 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Eastern Adriatic Department (EK) | 9 | 1.22 | EKA; EKJ; EKM; EKP; EKR; EKU; EKS | 72 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: European Union (Mediterranean) (EM) | 14 | 1.89 | EMA; EMI; EMM; EMO; EMP; EMS; EMX | 112 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: South-East Asian Department (FA) | 17 | 2.3 | FAA; FAB; FAC; FAE; FAF; FAG; FAH; FAJ; FAL; FAM; FAP; FAR; FAS; FAU | 136 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Far Eastern Department (FE) | 6 | 0.81 | FEF; FEH; FEI; FES; FEQ; FEL; | 48 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Far Eastern Group (FG) | 17 | 2.3 | FGA; FGC; FGE; FGH; FGT | 136 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: South Asian (FS) | 6 | 0.81 | FSA; FSB; | 48 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Financial Planning & Performance Department (FP) | 1 | 0.14 | FPD | 8 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: South Asian (FS) | 5 | 0.68 | FSC; FSE; FSM; FSP; FSX | 40 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Global Business Group (GB) | 7 | 0.95 | GBB; GBC; GBM; | 56 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Global Economy Group (GE) | 4 | 0.54 | GEA; GED; GEF; GEZ | 32 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Science and Innovation Group (GS) | 2 | 0.27 | GSC; GSS | 16 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Migration and Visa (GV) | 4 | 0.54 | GVE; GVO; GVP; GVX | 32 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Latin America Caribbean Department (HB) | 1 | 0.14 | HBF | 8 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Commonwealth Coordination Dept (HC) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Latin America & Caribbean Department (HI) | 11 | 1.49 | HIG; HIH; HIM; HIN; HIS; HIR; HIT; HIW; HIZ | 88 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Human Rights Policy Department (HR) | 26 | 3.51 | HRE; HRU | 208 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Sustainable Development and Commonwealth Group (HS) | 8 | 1.08 | HSE; HSG; HSJ; HSB; HSO; HSQ; HSR; HSZ | 64 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Information Technology Directorate (IT) | 18 | 2.43 | ITP; INA; INB; INF; INC; INR; INV | 144 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Legal Advisors (LG) | 11 | 1.49 | LGE; LGH; LGJ; LGP | 88 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Claims Department (GC) | 6 | 0.81 | GC | 49 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Consular Dept (GK) | 4 | 0.54 | GK | 29 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Nationality, Treaty and Claims Department (GN) | 160 | 21.6 | Not set | 1280 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Migration and Visa (GV) | 20 | 2.7 | GV | 160 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Overseas Labour Advisor (LA) | 4 | 0.54 | LA; LAG | 32 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Legal Advisors (LG) | 3 | 0.41 | LG; LGJ | 21 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Library & Information Services (LR) | 7 | 0.95 | LR | 55 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Energy, Science and Space Dept (ME) | 48 | 6.48 | ME | 383 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Financial Relations (MF) | 11 | 1.49 | MF; MFL; MFD; MFE; MFF | 86 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Trade Relations (MT) | 40 | 5.4 | MT; MTE; MTM; MTS; MTT; MTW; MTX | 317 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Public Diplomacy Dept (PB) | 21 | 2.84 | PB; PBA; PBB; PBE; PBF; PBG; PBN; PBP; PBR; PBV | 167 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Culture, Scholarships and Sports Dept (PC) | 34 | 4.59 | PC | 270 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Press Office (PN) | 15 | 2.03 | Not set | 120 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: prefix not found | 10 | 1.35 | PV | 80 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Protocol Division (TX) | 77 | 10.4 | TX; TXA; TXC; TXH; TXK; TXP; TXR | 616 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Protocol Division (TX) | 47 | 6.35 | TXR; TXS; TXT; TXV; TXW; TXY; TXZ | 376 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: European Union (Presidency) (WP) | 12 | 1.62 | WP | 92 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Communications Operations (YF) | 32 | 4.32 | YF; YFB; YFE; YFT | 259 | Files | 1981 |
| Departmental files: Communications Planning Staff (YP) | 11 | 1.49 | Not set | 88 | Files | 1981 |
| Migrated Archives: Pre-independence papers returned from former Colonies - Batch 7 | 175 | 23.63 | These files have now transferred to The National Archives | 1400 | Files | Not set |
| Migrated Archives: Pre-independence papers returned from former Colonies - Batch 8 | 149 | 20.12 | These files have now transferred to The National Archives | 1192 | Files | Not set |
| West Indies Assets; ledgers of accounts | 24 | 3.24 | Bound cash book 1959-1962; disengagement expenses accounts 1962-1963, including salaries, housing, leave and repatriation expenses, freight, grants, pensions, gratuities, widows' and children's benefits; signed copies of the Official Secrets Acts 1911 and 1920; public officers' pension calculations; revenue abstracts 1962-1963, 1962-1964; expenditure abstracts 1963; closed ledger sheets (deposits) 1962- 1963; Treasury cash balances 1963; Index; insurance premiums, subscriptions | 24 | Loose large bound volumes, and hard bound files | 1959-1964 |
| West Indies Assets; accounts | 12 | 1.62 | Assets (Interim Commissioner) accounts and disengagement expenses accounts; circulars; Crown Agents revenues (1962-1963); dissolution salary advances; Treasury vouchers; advances and deposits ledger balances (1962-1963); salary payment sheets; Governor-General's Residence, furniture and furnishing ; annual estimates and reports of accounts; West Indies Regiment accounts; disposal of furniture at Governor General's residence; disposal of assets from Barbados to Jamaica; issue vouchers; Account books, bank accounts, cheque books; Personal file; Diplomatic Training Courses; disposal of physical assets; Redundant Federal Officers; expenditure reports; Expenditure including by Federal Supreme Court, legislature, Prime Minister's Office: revenue and expenditure classification: taxes, miscellaneous receipts; proceeds of sale of physical assets, advances, refunds, travel, materials, stationery, pensions, gratuities publications, postage and telegrams, Minister's expenses, travel, seismographic research receipts, repatriation of civil servants; financial and personnel circulars; Crown Agents accounts, including payments to West Indies Regiment; annual accounts for 1958 and 1959; inventory and list of lost items; cost of uniforms; furnishing expenditure; loose papers and prints of accounts of the West Indies: annual estimates and supplementary estimates for 1958-1961; Certificate and Report of the Auditor-General on the Accounts for the Years 1960 and 1961 and correspondence; Common services, allocation of store, estimates and financial returns; court library; furniture and equipment; Federal House; West Indies Commission in London; West Indies (retirement and compensation) order, appointment of a tribunal; cancelled cheques; Sir Garnet Gordon; financial statement on housing for Federal Ministers and officials; commission library; commission assets in Canada, Washington, UK; Redundancy notes, control of expenditure investigation; reports from the Windward Islands, on the Treasury department Granada; Aid scheme | 61 | files, hardback binders | 1958-1964 |
| West Indies Assets; referendum | 1 | 0.14 | Referendum in Jamaica; overseas service aid scheme Overseas Civil Service: regulations, future; payments of terminal benefits, commuted pensions | 4 | files | 1960-1963 |
| West Indies Assets; disposal of assets | 1 | 0.14 | Dissolution of Federation: disposal of assets from Federal Houses; Vacation of quarters; staff payments; transfer of archives and historical material from Trinidad to Barbados; Mandatory Levy; Common Services; Court of Appeal expenses | 11 | files | 1962-1964 |
| West Indies Assets; personal files | 2 | 0.27 | Personal files relating to income tax arrears and other debts, payment of leave salaries | 37 | files | 1959-1966 |
| West Indies Assets; audit | 1 | 0.14 | Colonial Development and Welfare Fund: annual audits Expenditure, audited accounts | 3 | files | 1959-1963 |
| West Indies Assets; population Census expenditure | 2 | 0.27 | Population Census expenditure; property maintenance; visits Regional Census; Federal houses maintenance agreement; rental payments; officers and ministers visits; Visit to Geneva of Prime Minister of West Indies | 15 | files | 1958-1963 |
| West Indies Assets; administrative finance records | 19 | 2.57 | Administrative and finance records and correspondence relating to the West Indies Monthly accounts, address details and next of kin for staff and correspondence relating to working party of officials on an interim organisation for the West Indies; Statutory Instruments of the British Caribbean Court; accounts for the Joint Consolidated Fund (interim commission); records and correspondence relating to British Caribbean Court of Appeal; personnel administration correspondence and records for the interim commissioner; Colonial Development and Welfare (Amendment) Act 1959 allocation of reserve funds; monthly statement of accounts; annual report and accounts for the University College Hospital of West Indies (UCHWI); records of grants provided to UCHWI; votes ledger pension and compensations; accounts ledger book for air conditioning; UCHWI annual report and accounts; personnel appeals tribunal records; Crown Agents correspondence; correspondence relating to contributions towards mandatory levy; organisation and methods office; estimates of revenue and expenditure for the appropriation regulations 1958; civil aviation and telecommunications appointment; Grant and loan records Trinidad and Tobago housing; establishing seat of Federal Government (Fed Gov) (Trinidad); accommodation for Fed Gov; Mandatory Levy for Jamaica; Grant and loan records Trinidad and Tobago housing; establishing seat of Federal Government (Fed Gov) (Trinidad); accommodation for Fed Gov; Mandatory Levy for Jamaica | 128 | Loosely bound paper files, hardback ledgers | 1957-65 |
| West Indies Assets; annual accounts | 1 | 0.14 | Arrears of Income Tax; Auditor Generals report on the Accounts for 1960; Estimates for 1962-1963; Annual accounts Annual accounts for 1958-1962; Summary of decisions of the Common Services Conference held at Federal House, Port of Spain, 1962; Treaty Series No. 55 (1960) Cmnd. 1146 International Sugar Agreement of 1958; Register of P.A.Y.E. Income Tax, 1963 | 23 | files and pamphlets | 1960-1963 |
| West Indies Assets; pensions and compensations | 26 | 3.51 | Administrative and finance records and correspondence relating to the West Indies, personal files relating to pensions and compensations, widows' and children's pensions; mixture of miscellaneous files, loose ledgers: notebooks Personnel files: pension and compensation, colonial development and welfare fund; Crown Agents; civil aviation adviser; training; regional marketing; common services conference decisions; colonial office circulars; leave and salaries; West Indies (retirement and compensation order, 1962 - appointment of tribunal; appeals tribunal; federal supreme court appeal to privy council, Assets and disengagement; vouchers; grant reconciliation; petty cash journals; emergency loans; summary of expenditure | 456 | Loosely bound paper, files, Ledgers and notebooks | 1962-1970 |
| West Indies Assets; working papers, financial records and correspondence | 9 | 1.22 | Legal and finance records and correspondence, working papers and revenue estimates, Interim Commissioner files on miscellaneous matters, Crown Agents monthly statements; Interim Commissioner files on accounts, Federal House, Management Office files Assets and liabilities of former West Indies Federation: 1962 accounts, Bahamas meteorological staff salaries, Crown Agent gratuities, Trinidad audited accounts 1962 and 1963, defence expenditure, accounts adding machine, claim against the government of Trinidad, along with details of numerous bank accounts; keys of safe; UN technical assistance; personnel transfers; personal pension and income tax files; mail received and mail schedules; miscellaneous enquiries, claim by Meteorological Office; tour of West Indies by Lt. Col. J.L. Chapman; progress reports, draft and working papers; pensions contributions; regional contributions and services, working papers; correspondence with Sir Stephen Luke; repatriation and leave passages; monthly pensions; Interim Commission accounts for 1964 to 1967; federal development loan and guarantee fund, audit of accounts; loan applications; investment of liquid balances; personnel files; receipts for expenditure; economic advisory board papers, minutes and minutes; applications for assistance; correspondence; life insurance company; Invitations to tender for insurance company; schedules of pensions and compensation; re-absorption of former members of federal public service; dissolution of federation - pension and personnel arrangements; legal instruments signed by the interim commissioner; payment arrangements; original sealed and signed copies of legal documents; British Caribbean Court of appeal expenses and appointments | 91 | Loosely bound paper files | 1962 to 1967 |
| West Indies Assets; financial records and correspondence | 7 | 0.95 | Administrative and finance records and correspondence relating to the West Indies Copies of Pension Legislation; Pension arrangements for staff; Correspondence relating to the Meteorological Office; Interim Commissioner's Legal Proceedings; Common Services meeting proceedings and correspondence, vouchers, journal from 1965-71, loan and guarantee funds: for Antigua mutual syndicate; Caribbean knitting mills; Montserrat development association; Caribbean enterprises Ltd; Royal Bank trust papers | 33 | Loosely bound paper files | 1963-72 |
| West Indies Assets; administrative correspondence | 16 | 2.16 | Administrative and finance records and correspondence relating to the West Indies, federal development loan and guarantee fund, legal discussions, points of advice and other documents relating to West Indies (retirement and compensation) Order in Council | 78 | Loosely bound paper files | 1961- 1986 |
| FCO Crown Agents; loan agreements with sovereign states | 5 | 0.68 | Commonwealth Relations Office and Ministry of Defence Ghana frigate order and loan by HM Government; Malaysia defence aid arrangement, 1968, payments 1971-1972, 1972-1973, 1973-1974; correspondence 1969-1970; 1970-1971; Malaysian and Singapore (1968) special aid correspondence 1968-1969; Guyana military defence aid programme; Crown Agents' invoices; Anguilla unit claims folder; Kenya defence grant; final payments and receipts, contract officers in South Yemen; Loans and secondments, Treaty Series No. 28 (1968) Exchange of letters between the UK and Malaysia; Treaty Series No. 42 (1968) Exchange of letters between the UK and Zambia Yarrow & Co Ltd., shipyard at Glasgow; Crown Agents' invoices; UK - Malaysia Defence Aid arrangements 1968 payment certificates; Yemen payments 1969 to 1971; claims 1969 to 1972; 1973 to 1974; | 13 | Hard-back file | 1962-1974 |
| British Solomon Islands Protectorate: governing council papers | 12 | 1.62 | Private meetings 1970 to 1974; discussion papers and information papers; Council of Ministers, meetings 1974 to 1976 Meetings 1974; Memoranda 1-100, 101-250, Agenda and conclusions of 1975; Memoranda 1-78, CM 79-138, NCM 84-159, Agenda and conclusions 1976 | 12 | Bound volumes of papers | 1970-1976 |
| Hong Kong records series; financial and banking matters (Government House) files | 4 | 0.54 | Hong Kong: Discussion on future financial and monetary systems | 11 | File | 1983-1992 |
| Hong Kong records series; Government Office miscellaneous microfilm, microfiche and computer back-up tape files | 1 | 0.14 | A mixed, boxed collection housing fourteen spools of 16mm microfilm containing several different Hong Kong Government department-related documents, records and files; in addition there are also two computer back-up tapes and three re-sealable bags of approximately 200+ title-indexed microfiche that originate from the Political Adviser's Office (PAO) of Hong Kong; four of the microfilm spools feature copies of minutes of the proceedings of the Executive Council from 1948 to 1960 whilst the remainder predominantly include a variety of Security Branch 'SCR' files some of which feature building and floor plans of Hong Kong Government offices including the Governor's House | 564 | Microform; computer back-up tapes | 1948-1997 |
| Hong Kong records series; Political Adviser's Office (PAO) files | 114 | 15.39 | Hong Kong: foreign economic, diplomatic, political and trading relationships | 850 | File | 1959-1997 |
| Hong Kong records series; Government House, files, folders and diaries | 64 | 8.64 | A collection of files and folders that came from Government House, Hong Kong which relate to a variety of topics concerning the work carried out by those working there. This includes files discussing the arrangements for visits by officials, as well as briefings and speeches for the governor. There is also a collection of diaries created by the governor. Some material is written in Chinese | 512 | files; folders; diaries | 1982-1997 |
| Hong Kong records series; Special Duties Unit (SDU): microfilm, folders and files | 60 | 8.1 | Hong Kong: archiving policy | 82354 | Microform; files | 1946-1991 |
| Hong Kong record series; various government records | 7 | 0.95 | Hong Kong Government House papers (1945-1995) | 7 | Ring binders | 1945-1995 |
| Hong Kong record series; Government Secretariat | 5 | 0.68 | Lists of Colonial Government Secretariat 5 volumes for years 1974-1976; 1977-1980; 1981-1984; 1985-1988; 1989-1995 | 5 | Ring binders | 1974-1995 |
| Hong Kong record series; proceedings of the Executive Council | 20 | 2.7 | Hong Kong – proceedings of Executive Council | 20 | Bound volumes | 1962-1971 |
| Hong Kong record series; proceedings of the Executive Council | 400 | 54 | Minutes of Executive Council meetings; Memoranda referred to in the Minutes; indexes to minutes and memoranda; Information Papers. Legislation, judicial and social matters, infrastructure development, handover discussions | 400 | Bound volumes | 1959-1996 |
| Hong Kong records series; Immigration Department political asylum applicants individual case files (SDGS series) | 41 | 5.54 | Collection comprises of individual personal case files bearing Hong Kong Immigration Department unique file registry numbers with a suffix reference indicating the year. Files contain personal details relating to individuals applying for political asylum in Hong Kong with interview notes, many also include cancelled passports, visa entry applications, photographs, copies of birth certificates, fingerprint records and other personal information of the asylum applicant | 870 | File | 1989-1997 |
| Minerva archive file series - FMAS expenditure payment files | 5 | 0.68 | Records of expenditure payments processed on the FCO's computerised financial and management accounting system(FMAS). The expenditure relate to payment of goods and services supplied to Library and Records Department (LRD) and staff travel and subsistence claims. Papers therefore contain original travel and subsistence claim forms and invoices authorised for processing and payment, with details of named staff and their home address FMAS budgetary code lists; Supplier invoices | 5 | Loose papers | 1999-2004 |
| Minerva archive file series - Minerva project-related files | 16 | 2.16 | Collection of ring binders and box files containing loose papers, documents and correspondence relating to the project to find and then implement a new electronic records management system named Minerva. Minerva was introduced to enable the archiving and retrieval of data from the FCO's ARAMIS automated electronic file registry system. Papers include correspondence, project background notes, tender submission documents from potential suppliers, agreements and contracts and also strategy papers and reports relating to the subsequent move towards integration with the future introduction of the Firecrest system. ARAMIS to Minerva file; Druid database software application file; E-business strategy paper; Firecrest software integration report; Independent review of requirements for Firecrest; Internal audit file; Knowledge programme file; Library & Records Department business plan (1997 - 1998 and 2001 - 2002); Migration strategy file; Minerva and ARAMIS archiving (1994 - 1996); Paper indexes; Review of records and historical services; Security Operating Procedures (SOPS); Use of modem line up to 2004 | 16 | Loose papers | 1996-1998 |
| Minerva archive file series - ARAMIS to Minerva load files | 14 | 1.89 | Predominantly system-generated computer print-out system and records management reports detailing statistical summaries of errors encountered of files loaded from ARAMIS and then indexed within Minerva. Also computer print-outs of maintain file references | 29 | Loose papers | 1994-2006 |
| Minerva archive file series - Minerva contract, finance , system upgrade, support and administration files | 2 | 0.27 | Various files relating to the system management of Minerva and the 10 year Private Finance Initiative contract agreements between FCO and British Telecom Syntegra that ran from November 1996 to March 2007. Files primarily contain email correspondence between the FCO Minerva manager, Information Management Department, FCO Minerva system administration team and British Telecom concerning costs verification and timing of when quarterly payments are due to be paid and chasing of invoice payments. Papers also relate to resolving of system problems encountered, arrangements and specifications for rollout of periodic system functionality upgrades | 15 | File | 2006-2008 |
| Minerva archive file series - Minerva technical operations matters, site visits, meetings, correspondence and user guides | 8 | 1.08 | FCO Minerva project; Minerva operational matters and user guides; agreements between FCO and BT Syntegra Minerva Useful Information files: Aramis legacy data, Minerva Firecrest registry, directory structure, templates, search facilities, 1995; faults logs, 1977-2003, instructions, outstanding issues to 2000; system monitoring 1999-2002, desk instructions, file document transfer; correspondence (2005- 2008); meetings record 2001-2004; user guides 1997- 2002; technical drawings of product breakdown structure, 1995; Minerva move; disk usage summary; invoices 2003-2008; Firecrest to Minerva and Focus (ERM) 1998-2003; Aramis Minerva extraction tool 1998; Aramis tapes 1996-2004; Minerva Agreement 1996 FCO and BT; requests for change 1997-2006; site visit reports 1997-2008; equipment inventory 2005; support procedures 1997-2008; De-Regs 1998-2000; contract 2008; Licences 2007; Departmental designations 1997-2004; file inventory 1996-2008; technical documents 1999-2009; risk management 2008; audit report 2008 | 42 | Plastic hard back ring binders and plastic soft cover files and 2 rolls of technical drawings | 1995-2008 |
| Minerva archive file series - Minerva computer storage media, computer security access key fobs and miscellaneous small hardware parts | 3 | 0.41 | Files containing computer data storage media including back-up tapes, 3.5 inch floppy diskettes, software and licensing CDs, cleaning tapes and several un-specified small slot-in electronic memory or processor circuit board hardware parts. as well as a hardware connection cable and a container with computer console security access keys. | 0 | Computer data storage media | 1998-2003 |
| Minerva records | 12 | 1.62 | File intake lists (listed by year); files awaiting indexing | 23 | Expending files and plastic folders | 1992-2006 |
| Kidnap, hostage and persons detained Consular individual case files | 211 | 28.49 | Files originating from a variety of consuls around the world focusing on specific named individuals and groups who were the subject of kidnapping, sieges, legal and illegal foreign state detentions. There are also files that relate to the reporting and subsequent British-led investigation of unexplained or disputed causes of deaths of British subjects living or working abroad as well as a small number of specific incidents of notable high-profile international interest, importance or political sensitivity that involved British subjects and the associated consuls. Files typically contain communications and correspondence with the individuals families, their MPs and or MEPs, the press and the general public, other foreign consuls and government officials and the FCO in London particularly to seek policy, legal, diplomatic or political advice on how to respond to the incident or resolve the situation that has arisen. Correspondence includes exchanges between the Cabinet Office and 10 Downing Street, the Security Services, the Metropolitan Police and in some instances the Serious Fraud Office. Papers and documents vary from legal documents and witness statements, Ministerial press statements, regional and London coordination meetings minutes, to press articles cuttings, sketch maps and diagrams, medical condition and welfare reports, inquest and post-mortem reports, consular distress telegrams, briefing and de-briefing papers, charge sheets and incident investigation reports. There are also files relating to the investigation of complaints by British subjects about the alleged discriminatory treatment they experienced at the hands of Consular staff | 1688 | Files | 1974-2007 |
| Control Commission for Germany; British Element | 7 | 0.95 | Press cuttings; telegrams relating to defence issues; official publications, booklets | 45 | lever arch files, bundles of files, pamphlets | 1918-1975 |
| Departmental files: Consular Dept (GK) | 213 | 28.76 | GK | 1704 | Files | 1986-2007 |
| Departmental files: Migration Dept (MI) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: prefix not found | 1 | 0.14 | NH | 8 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Middle East and North Africa (NB) | 18 | 2.43 | Not set | 144 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Near East and North Africa (NF) | 11 | 1.49 | Not set | 88 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Consular (NT) | 5 | 0.68 | Not set | 40 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Overseas Territories Dept (OT) | 37 | 5 | Not set | 296 | Files | 2006 |
| Departmental files: Public Diplomacy | 1 | 0.14 | Not set | 8 | Files | 2006 |