Guide to the Records of the Board of Longitude (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Board of Longitude, Great Britain

Title

Records of the Board of Longitude (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1714 - 1838

Collection Number

RGO

Extent

57 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 contributions 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

Papers about the discovery of methods of measuring longitude at sea, notably the work of John Harrison. They also include papers relating to other issues of navigation. There are records, notably logs of scientific observations, relating to some major voyages of discovery, including ones led by Captain James Cook, Captain Matthew Flinders and Captain George Vancover, as well as to the search for the North West Passage.

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) filmed RGO 14, Pieces 1-54.

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 National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright/)

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material (The National Archives of the UK) and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Citation of items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material at the National Archives of the UK and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: TNA Series: CO 201/429, New South Wales. Original Correspondence. Despatches May-June 1850 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Further information on TNA citation guidelines in available at The National Archives of the UK

Archival History

Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project. AJCP Reels: 1727-1733, 1740-1759.

Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

The records of the Board of Longitude are now held in the Royal Greenwich Observatory Archive located in the Cambridge University Library, they were formerly held by The National Archives of the UK(TNA) where they were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP).

Series Reference: RGO 14.

For further information see RGO 14 at The National Archives of the UK. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C245)

Information on the Series is also available from the Cambridge University Library. (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/rgo14/1).

Existence and Location of Copies

The Papers of the Board of Longtitude have been fully digitised as part of the Board of Longitude Project and are available online at the Cambridge Digital Library. (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude)

Finding Aid Note

Dates used in the this finding aid refer to those of the records selected for filming by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) rather than to the date range of the original Series or File.

This online finding aid, published by the National Library of Australia in 2018, is a revised online version of the original paper AJCP Handbook:

Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, pp xviii, 95-97, National Library of Australia, 1995.

Subjects

Great Britain: Board of Longitude

Bibliography

Originally published as:

Australian Joint Copying Project. Handbook. Part 6. Public Record Group: Air Ministry, Board of Trade, Exchequer and Audit Department, Treasury and other Record Groups, Second Edition, National Library of Australia, 1995.