Guide to the Guide to Maps and Plans (as filmed by the AJCP)

Collection Summary

Creator

Maps and Plans. Great Britain.

Title

Maps and Plans in the National Archives of the UK (as filmed by the AJCP)

Date Range

1788 - 1858

Collection Number

MPG

Extent

8 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

Maps in the National Archives (TNA) of the UK fall into two categories: maps extracted by the TNA (then Public Record Office) staff from correspondence and other records, and maps assembled in a departmental library and transferred en bloc to the TNA.

Maps in the first category are given a number with a prefix which indicates their origin; for instance, MPG indicates that the map was originally in a Colonial Office class and MR (previously MPR) indicates that the map was in a Rail class.

There are many Australian and New Zealand maps, both printed and manuscript, in the map classes, but only eight were filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project. An example of the second category is CO 700. The maps in this class filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office (as filmed by the AJCP).

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: 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 citation guidelines is available at The National Archives of the UK (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/citing-documents-national-archives/ ).

Archival History

Material selectively filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP Reels 1546). AJCP Reels: 1546.

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

Existence and Location of Originals

The National Archives of the UK (TNA).

Series Reference: MPG 1 and MR 1/44. For further information see MPG 1 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C15026) and MR 1/44 at TNA (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4559071)

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-vn2080228 as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Finding Aid Note

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming by the 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 version of the original paper handbooks:

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 xix, 97-98, National Library of Australia, 1995.

Subjects

Maps, plans and charts; King Island; Sydney, Port Jackson; Hawkesbury River; Jervis Bay; Great Swan Settlement; Port Phillip Bay; Sydney, New South Wales; Queensland

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.