A letter from Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Féin, to John Major, the UK Prime Minister. Catalogue reference: CJ4/12375

Robert Dudley letter to Elizabeth I, 1588. Catalogue ref: SP 12/215 f.114

Letter from Francis Walsingham to William Cecil, 1578. Catalogue Ref: SP 83/8, f.55

Image of Mary I and Philip, 1558. Catalogue ref: KB 27/1185

‘Newspaper extracts regarding the establishment of a county rural police force in Shropshire’. c.1835-9. Catalogue Ref. HO 73/3.

‘A letter regarding the Metropolitan Police Force’. 1848. Catalogue Ref. MEPO 2/67 

Cartoon entitled: ‘The Political Drama’ with caption: ‘Reviewing the Blue Devils, Alias the Raw Lobsters, Alias the Bludgeon men’, 1833,  printed and published by G. Drake, 12, Broughton Street, Clare Market, [London],  Catalogue ref: HO 61/9  

This cartoon is a contemporary reaction to the creation of the Metropolitan Police Force of London. It shows the British Secretary of State, pictured as a police sergeant, inspecting the newly created police force. 

‘A letter regarding the Metropolitan Police Force’. Catalogue ref. MEPO 2/9653.