Metadata: Foreign Office: Confidential Print Middle East, General
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- The National Archives (UK)
- Holding institution (official language):
- The National Archives (UK)
- Postal address:
- KewRichmondLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomTW9 4DU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 8876 3444
- Web address:
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
- Reference number:
- FO 487
- Title:
- Foreign Office: Confidential Print Middle East, General
- Title (official language):
- Foreign Office: Confidential Print Middle East, General
- Date(s):
- 1947/1970
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 14 volume(s)
- Scope and content:
- This series contains confidential print relating to the Middle East generally. It comprises selected correspondence and papers relating to the Arab countries and Israel.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Foreign Office was created in 1782 and became the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1968. It was the government department responsible for the conduct of British relations with nearly all foreign states between those dates (British colonies and dominions were dealt with by separate departments).From 1968, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office assumed these roles, in addition to administering the remaining British dependencies and managing relations with the Commonwealth (previously the responsibility of the Commonwealth Office).
- Access points: locations:
- Great Britain
- Israel
- Middle East
- Subject terms:
- Mandatory Palestine
- Access, restrictions:
- UK public records, open for research unless otherwise stated in The National Archives' catalogue
- Finding aids:
-
More information is available in The National Archives' catalogue.
Research guidance is available on The National Archives' website.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
