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Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
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Series
Lord Chamberlain's Department: Records of Special Events
Catalogue reference: LC 2
What's it about?
LC 2
The records in this series of Lord Chamberlain's Department record mainly refer to funerals, coronations, marriages, baptisms, and state visits of royalty, titled personages, and notable political, military or naval leaders. In addition there are...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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LC 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chamberlain's Department: Records of Special Events
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Date (When the record was created)
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1500-1911
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series of Lord Chamberlain's Department record mainly refer to funerals, coronations, marriages, baptisms, and state visits of royalty, titled personages, and notable political, military or naval leaders. In addition there are records from Queen Victoria's jubilees and for occasions of thanksgiving.
They consist largely of entry books and loose papers. They principally comprise accounts of expenses, bills, and records pertaining to requirements for clothing, furniture, furnishings, services of workmen, victuallers etc. Also letters, memoranda, guest lists, service books, specimen tickets, programmes, ceremonials (printed orders), other printed material including newspaper cuttings, and gala books ("scrapbooks" of specific events, made up of the types of document listed above).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some entries are registered in:
Many special royal events up to and including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II are covered in WORK 21
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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150 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Clothing
- Population
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10227/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,803 records
Within the department: LC
Records of the Lord Chamberlain and other officers of the Royal Household
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Lord Chamberlain's Department: Records of Special Events
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