Guide to the Guide to Extracts from the Comprehensive list of Colonial Office records (as filmed by the AJCP)
M418-M420, M422
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Title
- Extracts from the Comprehensive list of Colonial Office records (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1961
- Collection Number
- M418-M420, M422
- Extent
- 61 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Extracts, being class and piece lists with brief description, from the contents lists to the ten volumes of the Comprehensive List of Colonial Office Records. The extracts are arranged, as is the Comprehensive List, alphabetically by colony, bringing together under each colony the different classes within the Colonial Office record group that relate to that colony.
Colonies or territorial units covered are Auckland Islands, Australia, individual Australian States, Borneo, Brunei, East Indies, Fiji, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Johore, Kedah and Perlis, Labuan, Malay States, Negri Sembilan, Sungei Ujong, New Guinea, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Western Pacific, Pahang, Perak, Sarawak, Selangor, Solomon Islands, Straits Settlements, Tonga and Trengganu.
Extracts covering Hong Kong, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Falkland Islands and Wei Hai Wei.
Extracts, being class and piece lists with tables of contents, from the two typescript supplementary volumes. The major portion of the extracts from Volume 1 consists of a class and piece list for CO 537, Colonies (General). Confidential Prints and Accounts Branch records are also listed. Extracts from Volume 2 include class and piece lists on emigration, governors' pensions, honours and Board of Trade records. A contents list precedes the extracts from each volume.
Short prefatory note followed by contents list for M418 and M420. The contents list for the supplementary volumes duplicates the two included on reel M420.
Volumes 1-3 contain the entire contents of M418, with the introductory ten pages of Volume 1 being the entire contents of M422. M420 has been reproduced in its entirety as a fourth volume. All four volumes bear the spine title PRO Colonial Office Records.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Public Record Office, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1961 (AJCP Reels: M418-M420; M422). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
In 2003 the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form the National Archives.
Existence and Location of Originals
National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England.
For further information see National Archives. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/]
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584706] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 198, pp74-75.
Biographical / Historical
In 1961 extracts relating to AJCP areas of interest were copied from the ten volumes of a typescript entitled 'Comprehensive List of Colonial Office Records', together with two supplementary volumes, prepared by the Public Record Office. Reels M418, M420 and M422 are also held by the Mitchell Library and the National Library of Australia in hard-copy format, in four volumes familiarly known as 'The Blue Books'.
