Further digitised India Office Records now online
An additional 200 digitised items from the India Office Records have been made available online, as part of the library's recovery from last year's cyber-attack.
They are accessible on the interim Digitised Manuscripts webpage, and can be found on pages 2 and 3.
These items were digitised as part of the India Office Medical Archives project, and cover a range of record groups over the 19th and early 20th century: collections of the Board of Control (IOR/F/4), the Military Department (IOR/L/MIL/17), the Political and Judicial Department (IOR/L/PJ/3), selections from Official Publications (IOR/V/23) and Statistical Serials (IOR/V/14).
A wide range of topics are covered:
- Hospitals and other medical institutions
- Quarantine
- Vaccination
- Medical topography
- Diseases including smallpox, malaria, cholera, and plague
- Medical education
- Sanitation
Map detail from IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4316, A Medico-topographical account of the Erinpura Regiment, 1907. iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100076102254.0x000001
Also included are two volumes of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton's original manuscript notes on Gangetic Fishes, Mss Eur E70 A and B.
Mss Eur E70 A, f85v. iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101225532.0x000001
Information on where to access online catalogue records and other resources can be found in our previous blog posts:
Digitised India Office Records currently available online
India Office catalogue records added to Discovery platforms
Interim ways of working with the India Office Records and Private Papers