Introduction to the Harland & Wolff Papers
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This is a document summarising some of the most interesting and significant content within the Harland & Wolff archive (D2805) held in PRONI.
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The Harland & Wolff archive in PRONI comprises around 2,000 files, around 200 volumes and around 16,000 documents, 1861 to 1987, documenting most aspects of the history of Belfast's famous shipbuilding firm.
The Harland & Wolff archive is one of the most extensive business archives held in the Public Record Office. But it was not until Michael Moss and John R. Hume, who had earlier completed a similar account of the history of the Scottish shipbuilders, William Beardmore & Co. of Glasgow, undertook to write the company's official history published in 1986 as Shipbuilders to the World, that the various departments in Harland & Wolff began to yield up their records for ultimate deposit in PRONI.