Records relating to the People's Palace, 1728-1987. The collection includes:
Papers relating to the Drapers' Company, the Beaumont Trustees' attempts to raise funds for the People's Palace scheme, and the East London Committee of the Beaumont Trust;
Letters, papers, photographs, printed programmes, and other material, relating to the opening of the People's Palace and the new People's Palace building;
Papers of the People's Palace Trustees, Governors, Visiting Committee of the Governors, and Committee, 1888-1930;
Papers concerning the relationship between the People's Palace and the Charity Commission;
Architectural plans for the People's Palace, and other correspondence and papers relating to its design, building and maintenance;
Records relating to staff and employment, entertainment and events, and clubs and societies;
Financial records for the Beaumont Trust and the People's Palace;
Records relating to the educational work of the People's Palace (through the People's Palace Technical Schools, the East London Technical College, and the East London College), and the Bow and Bromley Institute, 1871-1907;
Publications of the People's Palace, including the Palace Journal, 1887-95;
Photographs relating to the People's Palace;
Newspaper, journal and magazine articles about the People's Palace;
Records relating to J.T. Barber Beaumont, the Beaumont Trust, and the Beaumont family;
and other correspondence and papers. The Palace Journal, I-XI, 1887-1893, a digital version of which is available on the website http://www.library.qmul.ac.uk/archives/digital/palace_journal.
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