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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
1 - The Commission - correspondence
2 - Board of Management - Chair
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 (Science & Engineering Fellowship 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
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
1 - Prince Albert's Archive
1 - Volume I : July 1849 - December 1849
2 - Volume II : December 1849 - March 1850
1 - Dec. 1849 Appointment of Commissioners
2 - 27 Dec. 1849. John Potter, Mayor of Manchester to John Russell
3 - 28 Dec 1849. John Potter, Mayor of Manchester, to John Russell
4 - 31 Dec 1849. John Potter, Mayor of Manchester to Mr Labouchere
5 - 1 Jan 1850. Mr Labouchere to John Potter, Mayor of Manchester
6 - 3 Jan 1850. Mr. Labouchere to Colonel Grey
7 - 4 Jan 1850. The Royal Commission as printed in the London Gazette.
8 - 4 Jan 1850. John Potter, Mayor of Manchester, to Mr. Labouchere
9 - 29 Dec 1849. Extract from the Patent Journal
10 - 9 Jan 1850. Robert Peel to Prince Albert
11 - 9 Jan 1850. Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
12 - 10 Jan 1850. Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
13 - [11 Jan 1850] Draft Agenda
14 - [Jan 1850] Draft resolutions
15 - [Jan 1850] Memorandum by Stafford Northcote
16 - 10 Jan 1850. John Potter, Mayor of Manchester to Stafford Northcote
17 - 12 Jan 1850. Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
18 - 12 Jan 1850 Excerpt from a Manchester paper
19 - 13 Jan 1850 Mr. Labouchere to Colonel Grey
20 - 13 Jan 1850. Colonel Grey to Mr. Labouchere
21 - 14 Jan 1850. Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
22 - 14 Jan 1850 Circular
23 - 11 Jan 1850 Minutes of the first meeting of the Royal Commission
24 - [Jan 1850] Newspaper report of a meeting in Sheffield
25 - 18th Jan 1850 Minutes of the second meeting of the Royal Commission
26 - [Jan 1850] Notice of a meeting
27 - 20 Jan 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
28 - 22 Jan 1850 Francis Fuller to Colonel Grey
29 - 10 Jan 1850 Appendix to the first and second meetings
30 - 10 Jan 1850 Appendix to the first and second meetings
31 - 10 Jan 1850 Appendix to the first and second meetings
32 - [Jan 1850] Extract from the Manchester Guardian
33 - 24 Jan 1850 Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
34 - [Jan 1850] James Duke to Colonel Grey
35 - 25 Jan 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
36 - 25 Jan 1850. Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
37 - [Jan 1850] Report from the Times
38 - 26 Jan 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
39 - 25 Jan 1850 Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
40 - 24 Jan 1850 Minutes of the third meeting of the Royal Commission
41 - 28 Jan 1850 Mr Ellis, Secretary to the Society of Arts, to Colonel Grey
42 - 1 Feb 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
43 - 4 Feb 1850 Duke of Wellington to Prince Albert
44 - [Feb 1850] Report of Raw Materials subcommittee
45 - 31 Jan 1850 Minutes of the fourth meeting of the Royal Commission
46 - 2 Feb 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
47 - 4 Feb 1850 Sir Robert Peel to Prince Albert
48 - [Feb 1850] Report from the Committee on Manufactures
49 - 5 Feb 1850 Mr.Ellis to Colonel Grey
50 - [Feb 1850] James Randle, Parish Constable of Braintree, to Prince Albert
51 - 5 Feb 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
52 - [Feb 1850] Report of the Committee on Correspondence
53 - [Feb 1850] Report of the committee on Raw Materials
54 - [Feb 1850] Report from the Committee on Manufactures
55 - [Feb 1850] Classes of Manufactures
56 - 8 Feb 1850 Stafford Northcote to Colonel Grey
57 - 8 Feb 1850 Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
58 - [9 Feb 1850] Colonel Grey to Henry Cole
59 - 9 Feb 1850 Lord Granville to Colonel Grey
60 - 9 Feb 1850 Scott Russell to Colonel Grey
61 - 8 Feb 1850 Resolutions adopted at a Special Meeting of the Society of Arts
62 - [Feb 1850] Excerpt from the Morning Post
63 - [Feb 1850] Excerpt from the Bombay Times
64 - 7 Feb 1850 Minutes of the fifth meeting of the Royal Commission
65 - 26 Jan 1850 Extract from a Vienna newspaper.
66 - 11 Feb 1850 Henry Cole to Colonel Grey
67 - Feb 1850 Sir Robert Peel to Prince Albert
68 - 13 Feb 1850 Members of subcommittees
69 - [Feb 1850] Report of the Committee on Raw Materials
70 - [Feb 1850] Report of the Committee on Machinery.
71 - [Feb 1850] Classification of agricultural instruments.
72 - [Feb 1850] Classification of machinery.
73 - [Feb 1850] Classification of sculpture
74 - 16 Feb 1850 Lord Granville to Colonel Phipps
75 - [Feb 1850] Proposed announcement from the Commissioners
76 - 14 Feb 1850 Minutes of the sixth meeting of the Royal Commission
77 - 19 Feb 1850 Sir Robert Peel to Colonel Grey
78 - [Feb 1850] Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland to Queen Victoria
79 - [Feb 1850] Extract from the Times
80 - [Feb 1850] Extract from the Times
81 - [Feb 1850] Announcement from the Commissioners
82 - 23 Feb 1850 Colonel Grey to Colonel Reid
83 - 23 Feb 1850 Colonel Reid to Colonel Grey
84 - [Feb 1850] Meeting of the Agricultural Society
85 - [February 1850] Mr Hepworth Dixon to Henry Cole
86 - 22 Feb 1850 Duke of Northumberland to George Grey
87 - 21 Feb 1850 Minutes of the seventh meeting of the Royal Commission
88 - [Feb 1850] Committee of ladies
89 - 24 Feb 1850 Bishop of Oxford to Prince Albert
90 - 26 Feb 1850 Lord Londonderry to Colonel Grey
91 - Feb 1850. John Scott Russell to Messrs Munday
92 - 21 Feb 1850 Minutes of the eighth meeting of the Royal Commission
93 - [February 1850] Report from the Times
94 - 6 March 1850 Sir Charles Lyell to Baron Stockman
95 - [February 1850] Speech by Bishop of Oxford
96 - 8th Mar 1850. Lord Granville to Colonel Grey
97 - 7th Mar 1850 Minutes of the ninth meeting of the Royal Commission
98 - March 1850 Newspaper extract re Bradford and Birmingham
99 - 9 Mar 1850 Sir W. Clay to Lord Granville
100 - 14 Mar 1850 Lord Granville to Colonel Grey
101 - 14 Mar 1850 Minutes of the tenth meeting of the Royal Commission
102 - [March 1850] Letter to the Times
103 - 16 Mar 1850 Robert Peel to Prince Albert
3 - Volume III : March 1850 - June 1850
4 - Volume IV : June 1850 - October 1850
5 - Volume V : September 1850 - February 1851
6 - Volume VI : February 1851 - April 1851
7 - Volume VII : April 1851 - July 1851
8 - Volume VIII : August 1851 - October 1851
9 - Volume IX : October 1851 - May 1852
10 - Volume X : May 1852 - January 1853
11 - Volume XI : December 1852 - August 1853
12 - Volume XII : August 1853 - December 1855
13 - Volume XIII : February 1856 - December 1856
14 - Volume XIV : January 1857 - December 1858
15 - Volume XV : January 1859 - July 1860
16 - Volume XVI : July 1860 - April 1861
17 - Volume XVII : May 1861 - December 1861
18 - Volume XVIII : January 1862 - August 1862
19 - Volume XIX : October 1862 - February 1864
20 - Volume XX : March 1864 - May 1865
21 - Volume XXI : June 1865 - August 1867
22 - Volume XXII : June 1873 - July 1886
A - Box 1
B - Box 2
C - Box 3
D - Box 4
2 - Crystal Palace Drawings
I - Donations and Acquisitions
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