The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, was a United Kingdom Royal Commission established in 1869 to survey and report on privately owned and privately held archival records of general histori
A set of bound HMC reports at Kenwood House, London
John, 1st Baron Romilly, Master of the Rolls 1851–1873
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The Public Record Office, Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts
Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
…in which such Manuscripts and Papers were deposited", and to report on their contents. It remained in existence until 2003, when it merged with the Public Record Office to form The National Archives. Although it technically survives as a legal entity, its work is now entirely subsumed into that of The National Archives…
Entrance of the Public Record Office on Chancery Lane, now the Maughan Library, King's College London
Surviving part of the Rolls Chapel, now the "Weston Room" of the Maughan Library, King's College London, viewed in 2013
The Kew building photographed in 2002, shortly before the name change to The National Archives
An original cell of the Public Record Office at the Maughan Library