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Special Collections: Retired Railway Officers' Society
Minute books, cash books, and albums of photographs of members.Electronic images of selected pieces of these records can be searched online through our partner website. (Please note: Pieces 1-26 only have been digitised).
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1900-1963
- Reference
- RAIL 1156
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Board of Inland Revenue: Private Office Papers: Committee Papers
A collection of papers, memoranda etc. formerly kept in the 'S' series of the library of the Board of Inland Revenue, arising from various inquiries by Royal Commissions, departmental committees etc. into taxation matters and revenue legislation.Incl…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1894-1972
- Reference
- IR 75
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Major General Sir William Eyre and predecessor: Papers
The bulk of this series consists of military and private papers, including diaries and order and letter books, of Major-General Sir William Eyre.The series also includes diaries compiled between 1791 and 1823 by the Venerable John Eyre, Archdeacon of…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1783-1922
- Reference
- PRO 30/46
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Joseph Hatton: Collection of Home Office Criminal Papers
These consist mainly of a collection of Home Office Criminal Papers, 1813 to 1823.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1779-1854
- Reference
- PRO 30/45
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Sir Edward O'Bryen Hoare, 7th Baronet: Collection of Papers relating to 1st Earl...
As well as the correspondence of the elder and younger Pitts, Sir Edward Hoare's papers (formerly part of PRO 30/8) include some of John, 2nd Earl of Chatham, and also correspondence, etc. of the Taylor family. The papers as a whole consist of offici…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1667-1946
- Reference
- PRO 30/70
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Andrew Snape Douglas: Papers
A collection of the correspondence of Andrew Snape Douglas as British chargé d'affairesat Palermo, 1811 and 1813-1814, and at Naples, 1816-1818 and 1822.The despatches are addressed to the foreign secretaries of the day, Marquess Wellesley (1809-1812…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1811-1822
- Reference
- PRO 30/7
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Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl: Papers
A collection of letters, mostly on political and legal matters, to Hugh McCalmont Cairns, first Earl Cairns.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1856-1885
- Reference
- PRO 30/51
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Gifts and Deposits: Star Chamber Papers
Registers of writs issuing from the Court of Star Chamber, arranged chronologically. The names of the parties to the suits and of the persons to whom commissions were issued are given. There are also a few miscellaneous documents.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1580-1633
- Reference
- PRO 30/38
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Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester: Papers
This series includes papers of Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester (1757-1829), of his son Charles, the 2nd Baron (1798-1867) and the journals of Reginald Charles Edward, 3rd Baron (1842-1919), together with some papers of their wives' families (Gibb…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1613-1919
- Reference
- PRO 30/9
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William Evelyn Wylie: Papers
These are mainly family papers including many photographs of William Evelyn Wylie KC, but a few touch on his work as legal adviser to the Irish government 1918 to 1920, judge of the High Court of the Irish Free State, and for numerous public and priv…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1858-1977
- Reference
- PRO 30/89
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Guy Warneford Nightingale: Papers
These records include:letters from Lieut, later Major Guy W Nightingale to his family, 1910 to 1926his diary for the year 1915a typescript essay by his mother Mrs Alice Nightingaleletters to Mrs Nightingale from Capt T W Filgate, 1915.The letters for…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1910-1926
- Reference
- PRO 30/71
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Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock: Papers
Journals, letterbooks and original correspondence of Sir Arthur Nicolson relating mainly to his diplomatic posts in Asia Minor from 1885 to 1896 and as ambassador in St. Petersburg from 1906 to 1910.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1884-1933
- Reference
- PRO 30/81
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William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl Midleton: Papers
Papers of St. John Brodrick, later ninth Viscount and first Earl of Midleton, Secretary of State for War, 1900 to 1903, and Secretary of State for India, 1903 to 1905. Also included are papers relating to Irish affairs during the time of the 'trouble…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1885-1941
- Reference
- PRO 30/67
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Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum: Papers
These papers of the first Earl Kitchener of Khartoum cover his life and career from 1877 to his death in 1916. They fall into four main categories.The first category are papers, official and private, connected with his surveys of Palestine and Cyprus…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1877-1938
- Reference
- PRO 30/57
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War Office: General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to Commander in Chief,...
This series consists mainly of out-letter books of General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to the Commander in Chief, 1795 to 1803, Quartermaster General, 1803 to 1811, and Governor of Ceylon, 1811 to 1820.The series includes material which …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1792-1820
- Reference
- WO 133
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and successors: Papers
This collection consists of deeds and grants with a large collection of papers concerning the Ashley and Cooper families, papers, diaries and correspondence relating to the first, second, third and fourth Earls of Shaftesbury; letters and papers of J…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- c1160-1866
- Reference
- PRO 30/24
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War Office: Lord Frederick Roberts, Commander in Chief (South Africa and England)...
These papers of Lord Roberts include despatches, telegrams and reports exchanged between Roberts, field commanders and officials in South Africa; telegrams to and from the Secretary of State for War, and to the High Commissioner. There is also a coll…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1835-1913
- Reference
- WO 105
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Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and...
Records of the General Register Office (GRO), Office of National Statistics (ONS), Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths and the collection of i…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1567-2022
- Reference
- RG
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: War of 1939-1945; Merchant Seamen Prisoner of War...
The pouches record the circumstances of capture and the eventual fate of merchant seamen captured during the war of 1939-1945. They were originally stored in card index drawers.BT 373/1 - BT 373/359are indexed by ship name which was captured or lost …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1923-1952
- Reference
- BT 373
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Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aviation and successors, the Air...
Records created or inherited by the Ministry of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Aviation and successors, and related bodies pertaining to aircraft production and civil aviation responsibilities, including records passed t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1832-1995
- Reference
- AVIA