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Accessions to repositories

This is an annual listing of the more important or unusual accessions to record repositories in the British Isles, arranged by repository. It also includes a numerically arranged list of reports added to the register. Since 1997 it has been published online. The following volumes are still available.

• Accessions to repositories...in 1989. 74 pp. 1990 (0 11 440241 8) £8.50
• Accessions to repositories...in 1990. 72 pp. 1991 (0 11 440228 0) £9.50

Annual Review

The Annual review describes the Commission's activities during the year, containing information about collections inspected and advice given. Until 1987 it was called the Secretary's Report to the Commissioners.

• Annual Review 1989-1990. vi + 39 pp. 1990 (0 11 887531 0)£3.55
• Annual Review 1990-1991. vi + 40 pp. 1991 (0 11 887532 9)£3.65
• Annual Review 1991-1992. vi + 43 pp. 1992 (0 11 887534 5)£3.65
• Annual Review 1992-1993. vi + 78 pp. 1993 (0 11 887535 3) £5
• Annual Review 1993-1994. vi + 76 pp. 1994 (0 11 887536 1)£5
• Annual Review 1994-1995. vi + 77 pp. 1995 (0 11 887549 3) £5.50
• Annual Review 1995-1996. vi + 71 pp. 1996 (0 11 887551 5) £5.50
• Annual Review 1996-1997. vi + 71 pp. 1997 (0 11 887553 1)£7.99
• Annual Review 1997-1998. vi + 65 pp. 1998 (0 11 887554 X) £9.95
• Annual Review 1998-1999. vi + 65 pp. 1999 (0 11 440278 7) £9.95
• Annual Review 1999-2000. iv + 41 pp. 2000 (0 9530239 1 5) £6
• Annual Review 2000-2001. iv + 45 pp. 2001 (0 9530239 2 3) £6
• Annual Review 2001-2002. iv + 43 pp. 2002 (0 9530239 3 1) £6 (out of print)
• Annual Review 2002-2003. 2003 (0 95302394 X) £6.00

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Archive buildings

This consists of analytical chapters on repository design and standards of care, followed by thirty illustrated case studies. Christopher Kitching, Archive Buildings in the United Kingdom 1977-1992. vii + 144 pp. 1993 (0 11 440244 2) £17.95

Guides to Sources for British History

These guides aim to disseminate the extensive unpublished information held in the National Register of Archives. They concentrate on selected topics for which information is most comprehensive and most obviously in demand by historians, giving concise details about the nature and location of the original records.

• Papers of British cabinet ministers 1782-1900. 75 pp. 1982 (0 11 440121 7) £2.50
• The manuscript papers of British scientists 1600-1940. 109 pp. 1982 (0 11 440122 5) £3.95
• Guide to the location of collections described in the Reports and Calendars series 1870-1980. 71 pp. 1982 (0 11 440144 6) £2.50
• Private papers of British diplomats 1782-1900. 80pp. 1985 (0 11 440188 8) £5.95
• Private papers of British colonial governors 1782-1900. 66 pp. 1986 (0 11 440206 X)£5.95
• Papers of British churchmen 1780-1940. 96 pp. 1987 (0 11 440212 4) £7.95
• Papers of British politicians 1782-1900. 125 pp. 1989 (0 11 440223 X)£5.45
• Records of British business and industry 1760-1914: textiles and leather. 130 pp. 1990 (0 11 440226 4) £5.50
• Records of British business and industry 1760-1914: metal processing and engineering. 202 pp. 1994 (0 11 440232 9)£17.95
• Principal family and estate collections: family names A-K. xviii + 118pp. 1996 (0 11 440265 5) £30
• Principal family and estate collections: family names L-W . xviii + 182pp. 1999 (0 11 440276 0)£39.50

N.B. It is possible to purchase the two volumes of Principal family and estate collections at a special price of £50. The ISBN for this offer is 0 11 440277 9. Orders should be sent to The Stationery Office

Joint publications

This series was initiated to help local and other record societies to produce editions of historical texts of importance for the study of national history. The volumes selected for inclusion were prepared by the record societies themselves and were published simultaneously in the Joint Publications series and in each society's own series. The following volumes are still in print.

• The Kniveton Leiger, ed. Avrom Saltman. With the Derbyshire Archaeological Society. xxxiv + 316 pp. 1977 (0 11 440065 2) £10
• Visitations of the Archdeaconry of Stafford 1829-1841, ed. David Robinson. With the Staffordshire Record Society. xxxvii + 150 pp. 1980 (0 11 440066 0) £10
• Calendar of the Correspondence of Philip Doddridge, D.D. (1702-1751), by Geoffrey F. Nuttall. With the Northamptonshire Record Society. li + 420 pp. 1979 (0 11 440067 9)£15
• Calendar of the Register of Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Worcester 1327-1333, by R.M. Haines. With the Worcestershire Historical Society. xxvi + 305 pp. 1979 (0 11 440093 8) £10

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The Prime Ministers papers

This series comprises editions and descriptive catalogues of the papers of nineteenth- century statesmen.

• W.E. Gladstone I: Autobiographica, ed. John Brooke and Mary Sorensen. vii + 263 pp. 1971 (0 11 440015 6) £5
• W.E. Gladstone II: Autobiographical Memoranda 1832-1845, ed. John Brooke and Mary Sorensen. xvi + 294 pp. 1972 (0 11 440033 4) £5
• W.E. Gladstone III: Autobiographical Memoranda 1845-1866, ed. John Brooke and Mary Sorensen. xvii + 292pp. 1978 (0 11 440086 5) £4
• W.E. Gladstone IV: Autobiographical Memoranda 1868-1894, ed. John Brooke and Mary Sorensen. viii + 166 pp. 1981 (0 11 440113 6) £5
• Wellington I: Political Correspondence 1833-November 1834, ed. John Brooke and Julia Gandy. v + 776 pp. 1975 (0 11 440051 2) £9
• Wellington II: Political Correspondence November 1834-April 1835, ed. R.J. Olney and Julia Melvin. v + 664pp. 1986 (0 11 440201 9) £9
• Palmerston I: Private Correspondence with Sir George Villiers (afterwards fourth Earl of Clarendon) as Minister to Spain 1833-1837, ed. Roger Bullen and Felicity Strong. x + 795 pp. 1985 (0 11440185 3) £15

Record repositories in Great Britain

This notes essential information about British record offices and manuscript departments which systematically collects and preserves written records and make regular provision for their study by the public. It contains information on addresses, opening hours, and NRA repository reference codes. All this information is maintained and updated in our ARCHON directory

• Ian Mortimer (ed), Record Repositories in Great Britain, 11th edition. viii + 80pp. 1999 (1 873162 76 6) £4.99

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Reports and calendars

This series, begun in 1870, now consists of 239 volumes describing collections of historical papers of national interest inspected by the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The following volumes are in print or forthcoming.

• 9. Manuscripts of the Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil)
• Vol. XXIII: Addenda 1562-1605, ed. G. Dyfnallt Owen. xiii + 281 pp. 1973 (0 11 440042 3) £3.50
• Vol. XXIV: Addenda 1605-1668, ed. G. Dyfnallt Owen. xvi + 401 pp. 1976 (0 11 440062 8) £10
• 58. Manuscripts of the Marquess of Bath
• Vol. V: Talbot, Dudley and Devereux Papers 1533-1659, ed. G. Dyfnallt Owen. 376 pp. 1980 (0 11 440092 X) £10
• 71. Manuscripts of Allan George Finch
• Vol. IV: 1692 and Addenda 1690-1691, ed. Francis Bickley. xliii + 583 pp. 1965 (0 11 440140 3)£8 (out of print)
• Vol. V: 1693 and secret service papers 1691-1693, ed. Francis Bickley and Sonia P. Anderson. clx + 916ppp. 2004 (0 11 44 0231 0) £130
• 75. Manuscripts of the Marquess of Downshire
• Vol. IV: Papers of William Trumbull the elder, 1613-1614, ed. A.B. Hinds. xxiv + 580 pp. 1940 (0 11 440134 9) £3.15
• Vol. V: Papers of William Trumbull the elder, September 1614-August 1616, ed. G. Dyfnallt Owen. xix + 663 pp. 1988 (0 11 440217 5) £38
• Vol. VI: Papers of William Trumbull the elder, September 1616-December 1618, ed. G. Dyfnallt Owen and Sonia P. Anderson. ix + 710 pp. 1995 (0 11 440230)£60

Reports to the crown

These are the Commissioners' periodic surveys of their own activities and of national issues raised in the course of their advisory and investigative work.

• The Twenty-sixth report 1968-1981. vii + 38 pp. 1983 (0 11 440168 3)£3.60
• The Twenty-seventh report 1982-1990. vii + 60 pp. 1992 (0 11 887533 7)£5.50 (out of print)
• Archives at the Millennium: the Twenty-eighth report 1991-1999. vii + 78 pp. (0 11 702664 6)£9.50 (This is available in a PDF format in our Archives Advisory Services section.

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