Name change from 'Britain in the USA' to 'UK in the USA'
Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
The British Embassy website in the USA formerly carried the logo 'Britain in the USA'; it is now 'UK in the USA'.
When was the 'Britain in the USA' website established, when was the change made to 'UK in the USA' and why?
Yours faithfully,
Nevin
Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
I have not yet received an answer to my query.
Yours faithfully,
Nevin
Dear Mr Nevin
Thank you for your email. Your original enquiry, copied below, was
forwarded to our public correspondence unit for reply. I am sorry that you
have yet to receive a response. I will forward your chaser email to them
requesting that they reply to you quickly. Please note that the questions
you ask below are not being treated as a Freedom of Information requests.
Yours sincerely
Mark Lowen
Information Rights Team
The British Embassy website in the USA formerly carried the logo
'Britain in the USA'; it is now 'UK in the USA'.
When was the 'Britain in the USA' website established, when was the
change made to 'UK in the USA' and why?
Dear Nevin
Thank you for your e-mail to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
We apologise for the delay in getting a response for your enquiry. Your
enquiry is with the Web editing team, and they will get a response to you
shortly.
Kind Regards
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Public Correspondence Team
Postal Address: Foreign & Commonwealth Office | King Charles Street |
London | SW1A 2AH
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Dear Nevin,
In answer to your question of 5 March, the majority of British Embassy and
British High Commission websites were re-branded as `UK in (country name)'
in 2008 as part of the re-launch of the FCO's web platform. The change to
the web domains was intended to provide a simplified and more consistent
naming convention for our websites.
The British Embassy website was formerly called Britainusa.com, and was
established in 1996. It switched to UK in the USA in September 2008.
Kind regards,
Graham
Graham Harradine
Web Editor | Digital Diplomacy Group
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
tel: +44 (0)20 7008 4150 | [1][email address]
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Dear Graham Harradine,
Thanks very much for this reply. The rebranding also brings greater clarity as many people would not associate Northern Ireland with the 'Britain' label.
You say majority. Which EU states, if any, have not been rebranded 'UKin(countryname)' and why?
Yours sincerely,
Nevin
Dear Nevin
The website was previously called Britainusa.com (Not Britain in the
USA.)
It was originally established (as Britainusa.com) in 1996.
It switched over to UK in the USA in September 2008 in line with the
naming convention of our other country website
FCO webteam
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