Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (though this is more usually abbreviated as HMC)
Royal Navy | Royal Air Force | Federal Communications Commission | Royal Dutch Shell | Royal Society | European Commission | Royal Albert Hall | Royal Shakespeare Company | Royal Opera House | Royal Victorian Order | Royal Engineers | Royal Australian Navy | Royal National Theatre | Royal Canadian Navy | Royal Canadian Air Force | Royal Court Theatre | Royal Marines | Royal Commission | Royal Academy of Music | Anne, Princess Royal | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | Royal Flying Corps | Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Royal Australian Air Force | Royal Artillery | Royal Festival Hall | Royal College of Art | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | British Royal Family |
Other public appointments have included English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Committee, membership of the board of the Royal National Theatre, the South Bank Centre, and the board of Governors of Middlesex University, chairing the Arts Council’s Cultural Diversity Panel, and membership of the board of Resource, the Council of Museums, Archives and Libraries, and a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
It included the building of a greatly expanded repository on the office's site at Kew in 1995, and the subsequent removal of services from the old Public Record Office building in Chancery Lane; the opening of the Family Records Centre for family historians in 1997; and the merger of the office with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 2003 to form the new National Archives.