The Foreign Office is to transfer many overseas colonial administration files to the National Archives - from its website at http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/publications-and-documents/colonial-administration/:
The Foreign Office will be making available to the public a large collection of files from former British territories, sometimes known as the "migrated archives". The files will be made available between April 2012 and November 2013.
The Foreign Secretary made a Written Ministerial Statement to Parliament on 5 May about these colonial administration files held by the FCO and subsequently informed Parliament on 30 June that he had appointed Professor Badger from Cambridge University as the Independent Reviewer.
Professor Badger has approved a timetable for the transfer of the migrated archive files to The National Archives (TNA). The first batch of files, representing around 16% of the total collection, is expected to be available at TNA in April 2012.
The files are being transferred in alphabetical order ofa the colonial territory concerned with the exception of prioritised release for Kenya, Cyprus, British India Ocean Territories (BIOT) and Malaya files where there has been particular interest.
The full timetable is available at the FCO website.
(With thanks to the National Archives at Kew)
Chris
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