On 28 March 2012 21:55, Chris Keating <chriskeatingw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was talking earlier to the National Maritime Museum about organising an > editathon. They wanted to see what use we thought we could make of the > material in the archive collection, and whether Wikipedians would be up for > coming and making use of it. I am anticipating that this could prove very > popular, but if any of you are naval/maritime/biography/astronomy editors, > it would be really handy to have some specific examples of things we might > do to build the case for this event taking place. (And to answer the most > obvious question, we're currently discussing how much latitude we'd have to > digitise things there and then.) > > Their archive catalogue is available > here: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/archive.html#!asearch - obviously we > would have access to the museum and its library as well. > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
I think they have a pretty complete set of William Frederick Mitchell images which means colour coverage of a lot of british victorian warships. Beyond that there is the primary source issues and I can't find much on flat-iron/Rendel gunboats. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
