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Navy Records Society


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 NRS

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Navy Records Society

Date(s): 1893-1961

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 vols

Name of creator(s): Navy Records Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Navy Records Society was founded in 1893 for the purpose of making documents or unpublished works of naval interest available in print. Since that time it has issued over a hundred and twenty volumes connected with naval history and still continues to function.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Navy Records Society. They consist of four minute books of the Council, 1893 to 1961.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Permission to consult this collection must be obtained from the Honorary Secretary of the Society.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The records were deposited by the Society in 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Naval history | History

Personal names

Corporate names
Navy Records Society

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