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Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO)
This major series contains documents from the archives of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
Earlier volumes of DBPO were published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), now The Stationery Office (TSO), apart from Series I, Volume VIII and Series III, Volume III, which were published by Frank Cass. Current volumes are published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
Some recent volumes have been produced in a digital format, comprising a slim book of editorial material with a sleeve containing one or two CD-ROMs (The Year of Europe), or more recently a DVD, (Berlin in the Cold War). Each searchable disc contains approximately 500 documents reproduced as colour facsimile images (as opposed to 100-120 documents in traditional hard-copy volumes).
The entire DBPO back catalogue, up to and including `The Southern Flank in Crisis’ volume - and all previous series’, Documents on the Origins of War, (1898 – 1914), and Documents on British Foreign Policy (1919-1939), has now been digitised and made accessible on the internet, through the website of our partner, ProQuest:
Documents on British Policy Overseas [PDF, 480KB].
This represents a unique resource for serious scholars, providing users with access to a wide range of primary source documents, shedding light on diplomacy throughout the twentieth century. Details on how to gain free trial access to this resource for institutes of higher education and special libraries can be found online at the Documents on British Policy Overseas website (please note that it is very rare for free trial access to be set up for individuals).
Series I (1945-1950)
- I The Conference at Potsdam, July - August 1945 (1984)
- II Conferences and Conversations 1945: London, Washington and Moscow (1985)
- III Britain and America: Negotiation of the United States loan, August -December 1945 (1986)
- IV Britain and America: Atomic Energy, Bases and Food, December 1945 - July 1946 (1987)
- V Germany and Western Europe, August - December 1945 (1990)
- VI Eastern Europe, August 1945 - April 1946 (1991)
- VII The United Nations: Iran, Cold War and World Organisation, January 1946 - January 1947 (1995)
- VIII Britain and China 1945-1950 (2002)
- IX The Nordic Countries: From War to Cold War, 1944-1951 (2011)
Series II (1950-1960)
- I The Schuman Plan, the Council of Europe and Western European Integration, May 1950 - December 1952 (1986)
- II The London Conferences, January - June 1950 (1987)
- III German Rearmament, September - December 1950 (1989)
- IV Korea, June 1950 - April 1951 (1991)
Series III (1960 onwards)
- I Britain and the Soviet Union, 1968-72 (1998)
- II The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1972-75 (1998)
- III Détente in Europe, 1972-76 (2001)
- IV The Year of Europe: America, Europe and the Energy Crisis, 1972-74 (2006)
- V The Southern Flank in Crisis, 1973-76 (2006)
- VI Berlin in the Cold War 1948-1990 (2009)
- VII German Unification, 1989-1990 (2009)
- VIII The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-82 (2012)
The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-82
A volume examining British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.
British Policy on Iran 1974-1978
The Islamic Revolution in Iran represented a seismic shift in the internal and geopolitical orientation of a formerly close ally of the United Kingdom.
Q&A: British Policy on Iran 1974 - 1978
FCO Political Director Sir Geoffrey Adams answers questions regarding the release of the report British Policy on Iran 1974 - 1978.
German Unification, 1989-1990
This volume comprises a collection of diplomatic documents covering British reactions to, and policy towards, the collapse of the German Democratic Republic and the unification of Germany in 1989-90
Berlin in the Cold War, 1948-1990
British reactions to critical developments regarding Berlin, its quadripartite administration, and role in the Cold War during the crises of 1948-49, 1959-61 and 1988-90.
Détente in Europe, 1972-1976
This volume covers the MBFR negotiations of 1972-1976 and British-Soviet relations 1973-1976.
The Year of Europe, 1972-1974
Our first digital volume covers British reactions to Henry Kissinger's 'Year of Europe' initiative, the energy crisis and the fourth Arab/Israeli War of October 1973.
The Southern Flank in crisis, 1973-1976
A volume focusing on the Portuguese revolution, Spain before and after the death of Franco and Turkey's military intervention in Cyprus in 1975.
The Nordic Countries: From War to Cold War, 1944-1951
This volume covers British relations with the Nordic countries throughout the end of the Second World War and the early years of the Cold War
