The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Migrated Archives are a collection of about 20,000 files and other records created by the governments of 41 British colonial dependencies, removed to the UK at independence, and held clandestinely for decades in various repositories in and around London. They came only from territories administered by the Colonial Office, so not from India and other dependencies administered by the India Office and its predecessors, whose records are in the India Office Records at the British Library.