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Description: | The manuscript collection includes the active service of HMS Victory, papers on Nelson and stray records from the Dockyard. The bulk are small groups of personal papers, letters, diaries, memoirs and ship logs with coverage from 1700, but best late Victorian to 1945. Also Admiralty Library mss transferred to RNM in 1997 with collections of ship and establishment plans, Admiralty and Navy Board records and private correspondence of the Admiralty board.The historic photographs collection is large showing the RN from 1860 to present in prints, albums, glass slides, negatives, 35 mm transparencies , cine and video. Notable collections are Harold Wyllie (via the McLaren Foundation). HMS Ganges history of establishment, W. Pym Trotter glass plate negs and Capt JH Isherwood in postcard form. The oral history recordings cover all aspects of navy life, but in particular malta convoys, WRNS and D Day, Battle of the Atlantic, WRNS in Malta, Gulf War and training dockyard craftsmen on HMS Victory. There are also the administrative records of the Museum since 1935.The printed ephemera collection includes advertising, packaging etc related to social and operational history from 18th century to present. The King Alfred Library has 4000 volumes covering the history of the navy since earliest times, founded from the Capt KJ Douglas -Morris and laon material from Mclaren Foundation Now also the Admiralty Library. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | HM Naval Base (PP66)
Portsmouth Hampshire United Kingdom,
PO1 3NH | FAX: | 01705 727 575 | Telephone: | 01705 727 562 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4518 | Go to resource |
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