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Keywords: apprenticeshiplabour historymaster craftsmen and tradesmentradesmen - Art and artists
Keywords: art and artists - Civil or crown servants
Keywords: civil servantscrown servantsgovernment employeesroyal household - Coastguard officers
Keywords: coastguard - Coastguard stations and administration
Keywords: coastguardcustoms (tax)shipping - Companies and businesses
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour history - Company and business history records held by other archives
Keywords: business historycompanies and businessesindustrylabour historytrade and industry - Customs officers
Keywords: customs (tax)inland revenue - Doctors and nurses
Keywords: doctorshospitalsmedical servicesnursespatients in hospital - Enslaved people and slave owners
Keywords: abolition of slaverybritish empirecaribbeancoloniesslavery - Excise and Inland Revenue officers
Keywords: excise (tax)inland revenue - Historical education policy and administration: teacher training
Keywords: education historyschoolsteachers - Indian indentured labourers
Keywords: indentured labourindian indentured labourlabour history - Lawyers
Keywords: attorneysbarristerslawyerssolicitors - London Metropolitan Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepolice - People in business and trades
Keywords: business historyindustrylabour historytrade and industrytradesmen - Police
Keywords: metropolitan policepoliceroyal irish constabularytransport police - Railway workers
Keywords: railwaystrains - Royal Household and Wardrobe
Keywords: crown servantsearly modern periodroyal householdroyal servantsroyal warrant holderstradesmen - Royal Irish Constabulary, 1836-1922
Keywords: irelandpoliceroyal irish constabulary