Digitised Board of Longitude archive online

Following yesterday's launch event (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2502/) for the JISC-funded project, Navigating Eighteenth-Century Science and Technology, the complete archive of the Board of Longitude with related material from Cambridge University Library and the National Maritime Museum, is now available online.

The collection and links to introductory videos, essays and other resources can be found here: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/longitude

See also the introduction to the project here http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/content2011_2013/Board%20of%20Longitude.aspx and at the Guardian blogs http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-h-word/2013/jul/18/navigating-science-board-longitude-archive.

Dr Rebekah Higgitt

Curator of History of Science and Technology Royal Museums Greenwich