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Grant of the Manor of Smewyns

Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)

Grant of the manor of Smewyns, White Waltham, Berkshire, to John Norreys of Bray, 1558. 

Grant of the Manor of Smewyns, 1558.  Courtesy of Christie's.

Group of design archives of Francis Skidmore and Son

Victoria & Albert Museum

A small group of design archives of the metal working firm of Francis Skidmore (1817-96) and Son, makers of the Hereford Screen, now in the V&A, and many artefacts, notably to accompany the bui

Guild Roll of the Guild of St Mary, Nottingham

Nottinghamshire Archives

The earliest known record of a religious guild in Nottingham, listing 207 members of the Guild of St Mary, both men and women, from the parishes of SS Mary, Peter and Nicholas, Nottingham, and furt

Hand-coloured etching: The Exhibition Stare Case

Royal Academy of Arts

Mark Pomeroy, Archivist, writes: Rowlandson's satire on the experience of visiting the Royal Academy's exhibition at Somerset House is very well known and has been reproduced in all major

Thomas Rowlandson, The Stare Case.

Helston Borough and other Cornish documents

Kresen Kernow (Cornwall Record Office)

The Cornwall Record Office was offered, early in 2018, via David Lay’s Penzance Auction House, a collection of three boxes of Cornish archive material mainly relating to the

Alehouse licences.

Hengrave Hall Archive

Cambridge University Library

The Hengrave Hall Manuscripts represent one of the finest surviving Tudor archives.

A page from the building accounts of Hengrave Hall, 1525–35. Image courtesy of Cambridge University Library.