Foreign and Commonwealth records from 1782 - The National ...

Region Series
Europe FCO 9 (Southern Europe), FCO 28 (Eastern Europe and USSR),
FCO 33 (Western Europe), FCO 87 (Republic of Ireland from
The Americas and
Atlantic
1972)
FCO 7 (America and Latin America), FCO 42 (Gibraltar and
South Atlantic to 1971), FCO 44 (West Indies to 1972, West
Indies and Atlantic from 1972), FCO 63 (North America and
Caribbean to 1969, Caribbean from 1969), FCO 82 (North
America from 1971), FCO 83 (Atlantic and Indian Ocean 1971-
72), FCO 86 (Gibraltar from 1972), FCO 99 (Mexico and
Caribbean from 1977)
Africa FCO 29 (Central Africa 1968-69), FCO 31 (East Africa), FCO
36 (Rhodesia), FCO 39 (North Africa to 1972, Near East and
North Africa 1972 only), FCO 45 (Southern Africa to 1969,
Central and Southern Africa from 1969), FCO 65 (West Africa),
FCO 93 (Near East and North Africa from 1972)
Middle East FCO 8 (Arabia to 1972, Middle East from 1972), FCO 17 (Near
East to 1972, Near East and North Africa 1972-73), FCO 39
(Near East and North Africa 1972 only), FCO 93 (Near East
and North Africa from 1972)
South Asia and Indian FCO 32 (Pacific and Indian Ocean to 1971), FCO 37 (South
Ocean
Asia), FCO 40 (Hong Kong and Indian Ocean from 1972), FCO
83 (Atlantic and Indian Ocean 1971-72)
Far East, South East FCO 15 (South East Asia), FCO 21 (Far East), FCO 24 (South
Asia and Pacific West Pacific), FCO 32 (Pacific and Indian Ocean to 1971,
Pacific Dependent Territories from 1972), FCO 40 (Hong Kong
to 1972, Hong Kong and Indian Ocean from 1972)
The subject general correspondence series are in:
Subjects Series
Economic, Transport and
Communications
Departments
Defence and Disarmament
Departments
Cultural, Development and
Scientific Departments
5. Confidential print: 1820s-1970s
FCO 14, FCO 30, FCO 35, FCO 59, FCO 67, FCO 69,
FCO 70, FCO 71, FCO 74, FCO 76, FCO 96, FCO 98
FCO 10, FCO 16, FCO 41, FCO 46, FCO 66
FCO 13, FCO 34, FCO 48, FCO 55
Consular, Migration, Treaty, FCO 47, FCO 50, FCO 53, FCO 57, FCO 64
Protocol and Claims
Departments
United Nations FCO 58, FCO 61
Administrative, Information,
Research and Central Policy
Departments
1977 Conferences (EEC,
NATO, Commonwealth)
FCO 12, FCO 26, FCO 49, FCO 51, FCO 52, FCO 56,
FCO 68, FCO 72, FCO 86, FCO 95
FCO 104
From the late 1820s, correspondence of particular significance began to be printed in several
copies and distributed to officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, to other departments and to
British missions abroad. These copies were known as confidential print.
By 1906 nearly every important despatch or telegram was printed routinely. These documents are
a good way to gain a summary overview of Foreign Office political correspondence before
accessing the extensive holdings in the main general correspondence series described above.
Confidential prints vary from a single document to a substantial volume of papers, and are
numbered individually, roughly in order of printing. For further information, and to see lists of