This series includes personnel files, 1857-1960, and other personnel information, including: events for staff, mainly viewing royal processions, 1897-1902; information on specific staff roles, including the Director and the clerk, 1883-1893; personnel policies and procedures, including rules and regulations and staff handbooks, 1897-; employee surveys 2006- and one employee address book, 1896-1947.
This is not a comprehensive series - see 'Related Material' section.
Files may include any of the following types information: letters of application for work; references from previous employers and/or character references; Civil Service Commissioners' certificates of qualification for employment; memos and correspondence from staff relating to aspects of their work; summary records of pay and uniforms received; applications for superannuation (pensions) and related forms and correspondence; correspondence, summaries, and forms relating to taxation; correspondence and papers relating to promotions; correspondence and papers relating to military service, work as special constables or transfers to other government departments during the First World War and the Second World War; references from the National Portrait Gallery for other employers; correspondence and papers relating to casual employment after retirement; correspondence relating to the award of the Imperial Service Medal; press cuttings about staff members; correspondence and notifications of pensioners' deaths.