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confidential prints on particular regions <strong>and</strong> subjects, please go the FO series division within our<br />

catalogue.<br />

Confidential prints ceased to be produced in the 1970s with the arrival of photocopying.<br />

6. Embassy <strong>and</strong> consular archives<br />

<strong>The</strong>se consist of the original despatches received <strong>from</strong> the <strong>Foreign</strong> Office by British diplomatic <strong>and</strong><br />

consular posts abroad, draft despatches to London, local correspondence with the government <strong>and</strong><br />

other authorities of the foreign state, with other British representatives <strong>and</strong> agents <strong>and</strong> private<br />

individuals. <strong>The</strong>se <strong>records</strong> often include other local <strong>records</strong> such as registers of births, deaths <strong>and</strong><br />

marriages of British subjects abroad, consular court <strong>records</strong>, commercial <strong>records</strong> of many sorts,<br />

papers about British churches <strong>and</strong> cemeteries <strong>and</strong> the estates of British subjects.<br />

From the 1820s, registers exist for some of these series. Please note that not all embassy <strong>and</strong><br />

consular <strong>records</strong> have survived.<br />

How to search:<br />

Search our catalogue using as key words country names, <strong>and</strong> terms such as ‘Embassy’,<br />

‘Consular’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Archives’; refine by FO <strong>and</strong> FCO<br />

Or go to the Series Division ‘Records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc’ within<br />

FO for a full list<br />

7. Treaties: 1695-present<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are different types of treaty <strong>records</strong>, made at different stages of the treaty process, <strong>and</strong><br />

these are held in different record series:<br />

Before a treaty is made, the parties exchange the Full Powers or authorisations granted to<br />

their plenipotentiaries.<br />

<strong>The</strong> document reciting the agreed terms of the treaty, signed <strong>and</strong> sealed by the<br />

plenipotentiaries of each side is the Protocol.<br />

Following the signing <strong>and</strong> sealing of the Protocol, ratifications were drawn up, <strong>and</strong> signed <strong>and</strong><br />

sealed by the head of state of each party <strong>and</strong> exchanged, or sometimes deposited in an<br />

agreed place if there were several parties.<br />

Subjects Dates Series<br />

Treaty Protocols (with Full Powers of other parties, <strong>and</strong><br />

subsidiary documents, mostly 1775 to 2001)<br />

1695-2003 FO 93<br />

Ratifications of treaties (mostly up to 2001) <strong>1782</strong>-2005 FO 94<br />

Full powers of British plenipotentiaries <strong>and</strong> entries or<br />

drafts of ratifications<br />

1813-1967 Pieces<br />

within FO<br />

83<br />

Protocols <strong>and</strong> ratifications of multilateral treaties (mostly 1907-2002 FO 949<br />

<strong>from</strong> 1969)<br />

Protocols <strong>and</strong> ratifications of EEC treaties (mostly <strong>from</strong><br />

1973)<br />

Draft full powers <strong>and</strong> draft ratification instruments 1968<br />

onwards<br />

1953-1997 FO 974<br />

FCO 3

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