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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
1 - The Commission - correspondence
2 - Board of Management - Chairman
3 - Board of Management - Members' Correspondence
4 - Board of Management, Sub-committees Correspondence
5 - Science Scholarships Committee (Renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006).
6 - Science Scholarships Committee Members Correspondence (renamed Science and Engineering Fellowships Committee from 2006)
7 - Science Scholarships Committee - Correspondence with External Examiners
8 - The Commission - meetings and memoranda etc
9 - Board of Management
10 - Board of Management Sub - Committees - Minutes
11 - Board of Management - Correspondence re Educational Policy
12 - Medals
13 - Science Scholarships Committee
14 - Science Scholarships Committee
15 - Science Scholarships Committee
16 - Board of Management - Industrial Bursaries. Correspondence with Universities
17 - Board of Management - Naval Architecture
18 - British School of Archaeology at Athens
19 - Royal School of Needlework
20 - Royal College of Music
21 - Queen Alexandra's House
22 - Income Tax
23 - Income Tax: Scholars, Fellows and Bursars.
24 - National Insurance
25 - The Institute of Physics, The Physical Society and the Optical Society.
26 - International Education Board
27 - Research Awarding Bodies
29 - Banking
30 - Commissioners' Investments
31 - Auditors
32 - Finance - Miscellaneous
36 - Inter-Trust Conference
37 - Press Announcement of the Award of 1851 Scholarships and Fellowships
38 - 1851 Scholars who became Fellows of the Royal Society
39B - Press Cuttings
40 - National Physical Laboratory
41A - Acquisition of Pictures, Portraits and Papers
41B - Prince Albert Trust
42 - Garton Scheme
44 - British School at Rome
46 - Various Memoranda
47 - Accounts, Notes and Estimates
48 - Kensington Gore Estate: Museums, Exhibitions and Galleries
49 - Scientific Societies, Other Bodies and the Award of Scholarships
50 - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1853-1989
51 - Archives
52 - Commission's History
53 - Financial Statistics (relating to awards)
54 - Appeals from Organisations and Individuals; Special Awards
55 - Professors' Opinions - Science Research Scholarships, Overseas Scholarships and Research Fellowships
57A - Victoria and Albert Museum
57B - Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries (Formerly Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries).
58 - Crystal Palace at Sydenham
59 - The Royal Society
60A - Royal College of Organists
60B - School of Art Woodcarving
61 - Scholars' Dinners and Cocktail Parties, and other events.
62 - The Commission's Offices
63 - South Kensington Redevelopment Scheme
64 - Surveyors
65 - Solicitors
66 - Rents
68 - Science Museum
69 - Subways and Railways
70 - Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History) )
71 - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
72 - Prince Consort Statue (Memorial to the Great Exhibition)
73 - Imperial War Museum
74 - Imperial Institute
75 - Royal Albert Hall
77 - Royal Geographical Society
78 - London Building Acts (Consolidation) Bill, 1928-29 Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 London Building Acts (Amendment) Bill, 1939
79 - City and Guilds' College (formerly City and Guilds of London Institute): open space at the rear of the building
80 - Science Scholarships schemes of the 1851 Commission
81 - Whole-time Research Awards
82 - India Museum
83 - Exhibition Galleries
84 - Royal Horticultural Society: Gardens on the Commission's Estate
85 - Free Passages
86 - Charitable Foundations and Trusts, and the Charity Commission
87 - Royal Society Empire Scientific Conference
88 - Printing and Stationery
89 - Hospitality Organisations and Schemes
98 - Estate - Properties outside the Commission's original Estate
99 - Kensington Gore Estate
100A - Albert Court
100B - Albert Hall Mansions
101 - Albert Hall Terraces and Vaults
102 - Cromwell Gardens
103 - Cromwell Road
104 - Elvaston Mews
105 - Elvaston Place
106 - Exhibition Road
107 - Gloucester Road
109 - Jay Mews
110 - Kensington Gore and the Royal College of Art
112 - Queensberry Mews
113 - Queensberry Place
114 - Queen's Gate
115 - Queen's Gate Mews
116 - Queen's Gate Terrace
117 - Thurloe Place
118 - Thurloe Place Mews
119 - 2 Lowther Gardens
120 - Roads on the Estate
A - 1851 Exhibition Correspondence - Letters Received
1849 - 1849 Correspondence
1850 - 1850 Correspondence
1851 - 1851 Correspondence
1852 - 1852 Correspondence
1853 - 1853 Correspondence
1854 - 1854 Correspondence
1 - 13 Jan 1854. Lord Wodehouse, Foreign Office
2 - 24 Jan 1854. R.G. Wylde, Department of Science and Art
3 - 25 Jan 1854. Sir Joseph Paxton
4 - 28 Jan 1854. William Sands Cox, Queen's College, Birmingham
5 - 18 Feb 1854. Count Walewski (in French)
6 - 23 Feb 1854. George W. Ormerod, Salford Borough Royal Museum
7 - 28 Feb 1854. Memorandum (copy) by Thomas Cubitt
8 - Feb 1854. Instructions to Robert Marshall as Storekeeper
9 - 6 Mar 1854. Kensington Improvement, Statement in support of the Second Reading
10 - 9 Mar 1854. H. Tracy Read
11 - 7 Apr 1854. Osborn P. Cross, Secretary, Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton
12 - 18 Apr 1854. Article from The Times
13 - 19 Apr 1854. Edward Solly, Society of Arts
14 - 19 Apr 1854. W. Ellis
15 - 19 Apr 1854. W.M. Fladgate
16 - 28 Apr 1854. Osborn P. Cross
17 - 4 May 1854. Frederick Peel, Colonial Office
18 - 4 May 1854. William Sands Cox
19 - 5 May 1854. Edward Solly, Society of Arts
20 - 6 May 1854. E.A. Somers, Secretary, Marylebone Free Library
21 - 10 May 1854. W.M. Fladgate
22 - 11 May 1854. Peter Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts
23 - 14 May 1854. Polytechnic Institution of Bavaria
24 - 15 May 1854. E.A. Somers, Secretary, Marylebone Free Library
25 - 18 May 1854. Henry Bradbury
26 - 18 May 1854. William Harness, Privy Council Office
27 - 22 May 1854. Frederick Peel, Colonial Office
28 - 23 May 1854. Richard Thomson, Librarian, London Institution
29 - 25 May 1854. Edward Forbes
30 - 26 May 1854. Thomas Bazley
31 - 27 May 1854. Thomas Baring
32 - 30 May 1854. W.M. Fladgate
33 - 1 June 1854. Richard Redgrave, Department of Science and Art
34 - 1 June 1854. Sir John Potter, Chairman, Manchester Free Library Committee
35 - 1 June 1854. Thomas Bazely
36 - 2 June 1854. Peter Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts
37 - 3 June 1854. Count Walewski, French Ambassador
38 - 3 June 1854. George White, Penzance
39 - 17 June 1854. Reports of work done on the Trade Collection at Kensington Palace
40 - 23 June 1854. J.G. Hubbard, Bank of England
41 - 3 Jul 1854. W.M. Fladgate
42 - 4 Jul 1854. Account from the Executors of the late Mr. J.W. Higgins
43 - 7 Jul 1854. W.M. Fladgate
44 - 10 Jul 1854. Osborn P. Cross
45 - 23 Jul 1854. M. Digby Wyatt, Crystal Palace (at Sydenham)
46 - 28 Jul 1854. W.M. Fladgate
47 - 31 Jul 1854. W.M. Fladgate
48 - 2 Aug 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
49 - 4 Aug 1854. H. Tracy Read
50 - 5 Aug 1854. Peter Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts
51 - 7 Aug 1854. Henry M. Ormerod
52 - 10 Aug 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
53 - 14 Aug 1854. Sir Charles Trevelyan, Treasury
54 - 15 Aug 1854. E.A. Hoffay, Paymaster General's Office
55 - 15 Aug 1854. James Hills, Treasurer of Sunderland Museum
56 - 17 Aug 1854. J.W. Roake, Curator to the Newbury Literary and Scientific Institution
57 - 19 Aug 1854. J.W. Roake
58 - 21 Aug 1854. Thomas Luke, Secretary to the Pembroke Dock Mechanics' Institute
59 - 25 Aug 1854. W.M. Fladgate
60 - 26 Aug 1854. John James
61 - 31 Aug 1854. H. Tracy Read
62 - 1 Sep 1854. W.M. Fladgate
63 - 2 Sep 1854. Baron de Villars
64 - 4 Sep 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
65 - 4 Sep 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
66 - 5 Sep 1854. F. Madge, Treasury
67 - 5 Sep 1854. Peter Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts
68 - 21 Sep 1854. J.W. May, Netherlands Consulate
69 - 2 Oct 1854. Thomas Brown, Secretary to the Committee of the Institution of Science, Literature and the Arts, Banff, Canada
70 - 8 Oct 1854. W.M. Fladgate
71 - 25 Oct 1854. Messrs. Eversfield and Horne
72 - 27 Oct 1854. Norman MacLeod, Department of Science and Art
73 - 3 Nov 1854. J.P. Lofthouse
74 - 6 Nov 1854. Henry A. Hunt (Surveyor)
75 - 7 Nov 1854. Messrs. Eversfield and Horne
76 - 8 Nov 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
77 - 9 Nov 1854. Norman MacLeod, Department of Science and Art
78 - 17 Nov 1854. F. Madge, Treasury
79 - 17 Nov 1854. W.M. Fladgate
80 - 24 Nov 1854. J.P. Lofthouse
81 - 25 Nov 1854. William Tonks and Sons
82 - 30 Nov 1854. W.M. Fladgate
83 - 1 Dec 1854. William Tonks and Sons
84 - 4 Dec 1854. George Finch (of Fladgate, Clarke and Finch)
85 - 6 Dec 1854. R.R.W. Lingen, Committee of Council on Education
86 - 7 Dec 1854. George Finch (of Fladgate, Clarke and Finch)
87 - 9 Dec 1854. Dr. John Lindley, Horticultural Society of London
88 - 16 Dec 1854. Fladgate, Clarke and Finch
89 - 19 Dec 1854. Dr. John Lindley, Horticultural Society
90 - 27 Dec 1854. W.M. Fladgate
91 - 27 Dec 1854. Henry Moody, Curator of Winchester Museum
1855 - 1855 Correspondence
B - Correspondence and Papers, 1856-1909
C - Signed sets of Minutes of the various Committees of the Commission
D - Housekeeping Records of the Commission's Office
E - Maps, Plans, Drawings and Lithographs
F - Publications
G - Photographs and Lithographic Prints.
H - Collections on Permanent Loan
I - Donations and Acquisitions
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Richard Redgrave
Estate Plan c.1862
Great Exhibition Building 1851
The House that Paxton Built
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