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Records of the Noel family of Exton, Rutland and Chipping Campden, Glos.
This is a significant family and estate archive of over 13,000 documents from the 12th to the 20th centuries.
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Illuminated grant of lands in Exton, 1382
For the maintenance of a chantry chaplain. Great Seal of Richard II attached.
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Records of Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough
Formerly Leicestershire and Rutland Mental Hospital and Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum, Leicester.
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R. & W. H. Symington & Co. Ltd., corset manufacturers, Market Harborough
Eight deposits of business archives, 1850-1991.
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Local Studies Ephemera
Printed ephemera in the Record Office library, covering a vast range of subjects.
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Leicester Royal Infirmary Nurses’ League, c.1856-2004
Registers of nurses and records of the Nurses’ League, including photographs.
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Letter from Florence Nightingale, 1856
Sent from Balaclava, probably to a Leicester recipient (unnamed).
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Presentation volume to the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1888
From the Borough of Leicester, containing six etchings on silk of Leicester views.
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Letter from the engineer George Stephenson to his son Robert, 1833
Regarding the exploitation of Snibston Colliery.
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