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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: An office of class and classification -- Chapter 1: Keepers of the Office: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1782-1868 -- Residents -- Pets, pests and other miscreants -- Riot and debauchery -- Chapter 2: Keepers of the papers: The Librarian's Department, 1801-68 -- Arranging, methodizing and digesting -- Quite de Jack in office -- Much irregularity -- The hardest working man in Europe -- Unhappy spirit -- Misnomer's heir -- Chapter 3: Carriers of the papers: The King's/Queen's Messengers, 1795-1858 -- Persons of a very subordinate class -- A change in the class of persons -- New ways for old -- Matters of fancy and caprice -- The end of superintendence -- Chapter 4: Adjusting to the new: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1868-1914 -- Servants of the new -- Theft, negligence and security -- Divisions of labour -- Pestilence, redolence and sustenance -- Chapter 5: Managing the past: The Librarian's Department, 1868-1914 -- Salaries, supplementals and salvation -- Archives, arrears and registers -- Publishing the record -- After the Hertslets -- Custody, research (and arrears) -- Chapter 6: Delivering the message: The foreign service messengers, 1858-1914 -- Rewarding gentlemen -- Here today but gone tomorrow -- Testing their worth -- Going local, paying less -- Conclusion: An office of distinction and domesticity -- Bibliography -- Manuscript collections -- Printed documentary and reference works -- Monographs, memoirs and essay collections -- Articles and contributions -- Dissertations -- Newsprint -- Index.

This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher's government launched in the spring of 1989 to encourage Poland's transition from communism to democracy and free-market capitalism. It was subsequently extended to other countries of central and eastern Europe and might be considered a novel experiment in what the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, would later term 'tran

This book examines the 'Know How Fund', Britain's bilateral technical assistance programme in post-communist central and eastern Europe, devised in response to the end of the Cold War.The Know How Fund (KHF) was the technical assistance programme which Margaret Thatcher's government launched in the spring of 1989 to encourage Poland's transition from communism to democracy and free-market capitalism. It was subsequently extended to other countries of central and eastern Europe and might be considered a novel experiment in what the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, would later.