Library Research Guide for British Colonial and Foreign Relations Sources

Colonial British Caribbean newspapers : a bibliography and directory, by Howard S. Pactor. NY: Greenwood Press, 1990, 144 p.
HOLLIS Record

Confidential print: Latin America, 1833-1969 includes papers generated by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices which were printed and circulated immediately to officials in the Foreign Office and Colonial Office, to the Cabinet, and to British officials abroad. Covers the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, amongst other topics. Nature and Scope

Confidential print: North America, 1824-1961 contains printed material, from single letters to large volumes, circulated to officials in the Colonial Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British officials abroad. Covers North America and British Caribbean. Nature and Scope

Foreign Office files for Cuba: (Public Record Office class FO 371). 3 pt. on 37 microfilm reels.
Microforms (Lamont) | Film A 1067 Level B
Microforms (Lamont) | INDEX Film A 1067 = guide
-- pt. 1. Revolution in Cuba, 1959-1960 (PRO classes FO 371/139396-139521, 148178-148345 & PREM 11/2622) (13 reels) Online guide
-- pt. 2. Cuba and the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961 (PRO classes FO 371/156137-156255 & PREM 11/3316, 3321 & 3328) (9 reels) Online guide
-- pt. 3. The Cuban missile crisis, 1962 (PRO classes FO 371/162308-162436, 168135 & PREM 11/3689-3691) (15 reels) Online guide