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Catalogue description Foreign Office: Research Department and successors
| Reference: | FCO 181 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office: Research Department and successors |
| Description: |
This series contains records created by the Research Analysts of the Department of the Foreign Office. These include subject index cards of Soviet personalities, and research files on different countries. |
| Note: | FCO181(36-256) will be transferred at a later date |
| Date: | 1941-1997 |
| Arrangement: |
The records are arranged in distinct collections based upon subject matter. Each group of records represents a research project undertaken by the Research Analysts of the Foreign Office and their successors. The Soviet personality index cards are arranged by individual's surname and each piece contains the index cards relating to multiple individuals. |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | Arabic, English and French |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Research and Analysis Department, 1991-1992 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Research Department, 1968-1990 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Research Units, 1993-2022 Foreign Office, 1782-1968 Foreign Office, Information Research Department, 1948-1968 Foreign Office, Research and Library Department, 1946-1959 Foreign Office, Research Department, 1943-1946 |
| Physical description: | 806 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2024 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Foreign Office (later Foreign and Commonwealth Office) Research Department was established in 1943 during the pressures of the Second World War to provide briefings and analyses to foreign policy makers, independent of policy making within the Foreign Office. The department's origins stem from both the Foreign Research and Press Service, which was set up at Balliol, Oxford in 1939, and the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department. In 1989 the department changed its name to the Research and Analysis Department, which was thought to more accurately describe the work of the department. In 1993 the Research and Analysis Department was split into separate research units attached to specific departments and now exists as a professional cadre within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
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