British Documents - Foreign Office

UVA Library has a large selection of Foreign Office materials in microfilm and print, as well as some digital materials from the Center for Research Libraries. Additionally, we have related Cabinet and Prime Minister's sources. Browse VIRGO records for these items.

Tip: search by keyword or browse record classes in the British National Archives Catalogue to find a document number, and then search VIRGO to see if we have that specific number in one of our microfilm sets. 

Search the BNA Catalogue by word or phrase (e.g.word or phrase ="soviet invasion of poland"; year range=1938-1940 ). Or, browse a record class (scroll down page) to obtain a title and document number. Sample document number: FO 371/23103. (FO 371 is the series number, 23103 is the subseries number.)

To find out if UVA has the item cited in a BNA search result, do an Advanced VIRGO Catalog keyword search using the subseries document number found in your British National Catalogue search. Sample search terms: 23103 and microfilm

The multi-volume print titles listed below are located at various UVA Library locations. Click links below for VIRGO listings of these titles. (Click on individual title link for details on content, date coverage, library location and call number.)

• British and Foreign State Papers
• British Documents at the End of Empire
• British Documents on Foreign Affairs Reports and Papers from the Foreign Office Confidential Print....
  
• Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939 
• Documents on British Policy Overseas
• Great Britain: Foreign Policy and the Span of Empire, 1689-1971; a Documentary History 

More VIRGO search examples:

(Use VIRGO Advanced)

• Find out if UVA has material from a specific category of Foreign Office material,
  Keyword = FO 371 (General Correspondence, Political, from 1906) 
  
• Browse materials from the Foreign Office (1782-1968)
  Author = great britain foreign office
  Keyword = great britain foreign office and microfilm
  
• Browse Confidential Print materials
  Keyword = confidential print and great britain 
  
• Browse Cabinet Office (CAB) materials
  Keyword or Author = great britain cabinet office
  
• Find documents from the Prime Ministers's Office (PREM)
  Author = great britain prime minister
  
• Find sources specific to geographic regions or time periods
  Keyword = great britain foreign relations sources 1910-1936
  Keyword = great britain foreign relations germany (or China, etc.)