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Collections held by the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Calderdale (as filmed by the AJCP), 24 September 1838-02 July 1971

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Papers 1838-82 of Frederick Walker, Son Dickie, solicitors, relating to lease and conveyance of lands in Australia and New Zealand.
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Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1770-1960

1358 items
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The War Office records cover a wide variety of material relating to both Colonial and Australian involvements in armed conflicts. Amongst the records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are documents and correspondence of the Commander- in-Chief, Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State and Judge-Advocate General.
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Natural History Museum: Papers of the Murray Library (as filmed by the AJCP), 1839-1912

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Surveys 1873-1912 of oceanographic expeditions. The ships include HMS Penguin, HMS Waterwitch, USS Albatross and HMS Egeria.
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Records of the Board of Trade (as filmed by the AJCP), 1784-April 1956

771 items
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Select items were copied by the AJCP from the following Series and Record Groups: Central Administrative Records; Records of the Commercial, Companies, Labour, Railways and Statistics Department; Department of Overseas Trade; Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen; Records of Allied Organisations.
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C14, 1839-06

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Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1939

865 items
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As well as papers concerned with the religious activities of the missionaries, much of the material in this collection includes writings, and incidental observations, on exploration, anthropology, linguistics, trade and economics, education, publishing, agriculture and social conditions. Political events closely affected the mission stations and are documented in the Society's records, including the proclamation of a British Protectorate in eastern New Guinea in 1884.
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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

66 items
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Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.
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Records and Collections of the Royal Society (as filmed by the AJCP), August 1642-1970

395 items
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Records 1699-1937 of the Royal Society comprising council and committee minutes, correspondence, letter-books, manuscripts, referee reports and other archives.
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Records of the Exchequer and Audit Department (as filmed by the AJCP), 1765-1918

880 items
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Records of the Auditors of the Imprest, Commissioners of Audit, Exchequer and Audit Department, National Audit Office and related bodies.
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Accounts, 1839-1849

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Papers of William Smith O'Brien (as filmed by the AJCP), 1829-1860

123 items
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Journals and diaries 1849-1853 kept in Tasmania, including a description of part of his voyage from Ireland to Australia in 1849 on the Swift.
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Records of the Hydrographic Department (as filmed by the AJCP), 1787-1956

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Records relating to surveys carried out by Royal Navy warships and surveying vessels in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, including surveys of the coasts and adjoining islands and reefs of Australia and New Zealand. The bulk of the records filmed date from 1828 to 1855, when Sir Francis Beaufort was Hydrographer, but many later letters, reports and sailing directions have also been copied. Among the records filmed are extracts from journals and logs, remark books, sailing directions, reports, letters and survey data books and also selected items from the minute-books 1825-1856 and letter-books 1815-1855 of the Hydrographic Department.
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