Indyboys at The National Archives

Cross posting this from nodbear's journal...

We’re chuffed to bits that our research into the lives of the historical crew of HMS Indefatigable will be featured at The National Archives this weekend as part of the Explore Your Archives series of events. On Saturday 23rd November The National Archives will host a one day event focused on how archives can inspire creativity. The programme includes an “Explore Our Stories” strand which provides members of the public with an opportunity to see ten Discovery Boxes containing documents that are not normally allowed out of the search rooms, and to hear how these documents have inspired research and revealed long hidden stories. Each Discovery Box item has been chosen by a member of the Archives’ staff, or one of the Friends of The National Archives, who will be on hand to answer questions about the documents, explain the information they reveal and the stories that they tell.

One of the ten documents being presented is ADM36/13144, the 1797 muster book of the HMS Indefatigable, and nodbear will be on hand to talk about the amazing stories that the muster reveals. Visitors will have a chance to see the original ship’s muster book, to look through a copy of the document, and to see pictures of some of the young officers who served aboard the ship. (I can neither confirm nor deny that this will include pictures of Horatio and Archie ;)



Muster book of His Majesty's Ship the Indefatigable