Series GB-BNA/FO195 - Foreign Office, Records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire), General correspondance, from Jerusalem

Global extent: 2723 files, papers and volumes (1808-1962); 858 selected and described items, from 57 registers (1842-1911)

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7509

This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire).
Before 1831 the records in this series are copies made from the general correspondence in FO 78
Creators according to the period:
Foreign Office, Consulates, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
Foreign Office, Consulates, Turkey, 1923-1968
Foreign Office, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
Foreign Office, Embassy, Turkey, 1923-1968

All political and confidential archives for 1918-1939 were destroyed.

The fonds is closed.

By year and then (where applicable) by original file number. The item-level catalogue references reflect these file numbers and hence gaps occur in the sequence.

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated.

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7509

ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

Catalogue prepared on June 2017

Inventory of a range of items from the collection untitled Foreign Office, Records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc, Turkey (formerly Ottoman Empire), General correspondance, from Jerusalem (1842-1911), held by the National Archives (London), made by François Rimelen, 2017.