Migrated archives: Hanslope Park colonial-era files disclosure (Cary Report 2011)

The Cary Report (Feb 2011) was the FCO-commissioned internal review that surfaced approximately 1.2 million files held at Hanslope Park covering 37 former colonies — including Ceylon — that had not been transferred to The National Archives at independence as Public Records Act 1958 required. Files were progressively released to TNA from 2012 onward under the catalogue prefix FCO 141. The Hanslope disclosure is the operational precedent that makes British archival truth on the Ceylon transfer of power a concrete, deliverable ask rather than a rhetorical one — the files exist, the disclosure machinery exists, the only missing element is a Ceylon-specific FCO Series review.