UAG170315 01c
Digitisation Update
For UAG March 2015
The following list is NOT commercially sensitive.
Digital Microfilm
A full list of what is now available can be found here
No new series of Digital Microfilm have been indexed and made chargeable on Discovery since the last report.
Digitisation
Title
Dept/series/
Piece(s)/Item(s)
Various – see list
Description
Status
Records of prisoners of war, both British and
foreign captured 1714-1945.
Naval CR
Cards and
Registers
ADM 362, 363
Registers and individual Continuous Service
Records of naval ratings other ranks – new
accession in digital form only.
Dutch Colonial
Administration
HCA 30/756, 761/1,
761/2, 767, 769/1,
769/2, 769/3, 770/1,
770/2, 771-1, 771-2
High Court of Admiralty, and Supreme Court
of Judicature, High Court of Justice, Probate,
Divorce and Admiralty Division: Admiralty
Miscellanea.
Contract awarded to Findmypast. Scanning of
first tranche – prisoners taken at Gallipoli in
1915 – started 23 Feb. Scanning of records
of Napoleonic PoWs to follow.
Imaging complete end of January 2014. Final
QA checks and image ingest underway. The
images are available for sale, transcription
and licensing: no sales agreed at time of
writing. Launch on Discovery tba.
Imaging began January 2015: completion due
mid-March 2015.
CO 116/18-136
Colonial Office and predecessors: British
Guiana, formerly Berbice, Demerara and
Essequibo, Miscellanea including Papers of
the Dutch West India Company.
Prisoners of
War LiA
Prize Papers
Online
HCA 30 and 32
selections
Brill: Interrogation reports from within Prize
Papers of High Court of Admiralty, organised
by war: http://www.brill.com/products/onlineresources/prize-papers-online
Cengage: 19th
Century
Collections
Online
(“NCCO”):
Children and
Maps units
Various
Childhood Collection fact-sheet:
http://assets.cengage.com/pdf/fs_nccochildren.pdf
Includes files from TNA on child welfare and
reform, education, health, crime and
detention
Maps unit fact-sheet:
http://assets.cengage.com/pdf/fs_nccomapping-the-world-onesheet.pdf
Findmypast:
Irish
Reproductive
Loans
T 91/1-241
Treasury: Irish Reproductive Loans Fund
records 1821-74
Second unit of Interrogation Reports (7 Years
War & War of Austrian Succession) published
February 2015. Estimates for scanning Unit
3: 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dutch Wars and War of
Spanish Succession are currently with Brill,
awaiting go-ahead.
Units (including material from other
collections eg. British Library) launched
January 2015, available free onsite via elibrary.
Released online February 2015, free access
in reading rooms
Crime, Prisons & Punishments: The following pieces now online:
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ADM 6/418 & 420-422
CRIM 9/1-20, 22-47, 49-53, 55, 57-66, 68-69, 72-75 & 77
HO 17/3-4, 10, 17, 20-24, 27, 29, 31, 34, 37, 39-43, 46-50, 55, 58-59, 61-65, 67, 69-74, 76-77, 79-80, 83, 85-90, 92-96, 99, 101, 103106, 108-117, 119-124 & 126-131
HO 140/1-5, 11, 22, 28, 37-39, 43, 45, 48-50, 52-53, 55, 57-61, 72, 74, 77, 79-80, 82-92, 94-95, 97-101, 103-107, 109, 112-118, 121130, 134, 136-139, 141-142, 144-154, 156-162, 167-169, 171-172, 176, 178-184, 186-195, 197-198, 208, 211, 216, 222, 232, 240,
254, 259, 272, 276, 278, 280, 283-284, 286, 299-300, 304, 310, 312, 315-316, 339, 359, 362, 368, 371, 373, 375, 390, 400-401, 405,
407, 410 & 414
MEPO 6/77-83 & 85-88
PCOM 2/101