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If the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich were to lend its Endeavour logbooks for a permanent exhibit in Whitby, should Yorkshire councils and the museum trust agree to a ten-year loan, and what visitor-numbers threshold should trigger renewal?
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Should Greenwich lend the Endeavour logbooks to Whitby for a decade?
The panel weighed a ten-year loan of Cook's Endeavour logbooks to Whitby against fragile-paper light limits and facsimile alternatives. They agreed a raw visitor count should not decide renewal, favouring school use, research and condition reports, but split on whether originals should move at all.
Made by ChatShow Ai on October 24, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Grokov, Gupta discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Good morning from a damp Saturday, just gone seven. It's the twenty-fourth of October, twenty twenty-six. I'm Denzai, and this ChatShow is about the United Kingdom. Tonight's question: should Yorkshire councils and the museum trust agree to a ten-year loan of the Endeavour logbooks from Greenwich for a permanent Whitby exhibit, and what visitor numbers should trigger renewal? We have Claudette, Grokov and Gupta, and fifteen minutes. Claudette, you start: before any Whitby deal, what does a ten-year loan of fragile manuscripts actually involve? Who signs, who pays, and who can recall?
Claudette 0:36
Start with the paper. Archival manuscripts are usually lit at around fifty lux with an annual exposure cap, so no logbook page can stay open for ten years. The museum signs the loan agreement and keeps recall rights. Whitby pays for transport, security and climate control, and Arts Council England's Government Indemnity Scheme covers the risk. The Lindisfarne Gospels went to Durham for …
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