IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 83 Series
Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive
Title: Post Office: Telegraphs, Post Office (Overseas)
Date(s): 1849-1934
Level of description: Series
Extent: 104 files
Name of creator(s):
No further information available
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The first transmission of telegraphic communication to overseas routes was by submarine cable from Dover to Calais in 1850. Private telegraph companies pioneered this work, with the Post Office becoming increasingly involved in the management of overseas cables following its takeover of the UK domestic telegraph network in 1870. Private companies remained active in the international arena, particularly in providing telegraph services to places outside Europe. Many of these companies merged in 1929 to form Cable and Wireless Ltd.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This series consists of a collection of licences, concessions, agreements, treaties, conventions and conferences, correspondence and memoranda between foreign governments negotiating landing rights, maintenance and operation of submarine cable telegraphs; ocean survey reports as well as other reports by officers in the General Post Office and committee reports.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For records on telegraphs, private companies see POST 81.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry checked by Barbara Ball
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Entry checked June 2011