The repository contains research outputs by Historic Royal Palaces staff, such as journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, books, and research reports. We launched the repository in spring 2025 and will continue to add new content.

Where a full text copy of the item is held, it is available to read and download for your own research.

Sometimes publisher licence restrictions do not allow us to hold the full file; in those cases, the ‘Official URL’ link usually leads to the full item.

At Historic Royal Palaces, we aim to grow our distinct status and research credibility by leading and collaborating on projects supported by UKRI and other funders. Research activities at HRP span a wide variety of disciplines and professions, including royal history and palace lives; heritage science and collection care; art history and material culture; architecture and archaeology; and heritage management and public engagement.

For more information about our research at Historic Royal Palaces, you can read more on the research pages on our website: Research at Historic Royal Palaces | Historic Royal Palaces

Items in the repository have at least one creator or contributor who is a member of Historic Royal Palaces staff.

Material not produced by or in association with Historic Royal Palaces staff is not eligible for inclusion.

When sorted by relevance, results are displayed according to an algorithm taking account of the frequency and position of the search terms within each item and across all content. Your search term might occur in the files as well or instead of the displayed metadata.

Note you can change the display order to show search results sorted by other means.

Research outputs are made available in the Repository on terms agreed with the authors/depositors of the outputs. As a user you may use the items only if you abide by the licence or other terms under which it has been released, e.g., the terms of a specific Creative Commons Licence. Where no licence is displayed, unless indicated otherwise items made publicly available in the Repository are protected by copyright with all rights reserved.

Sometimes individual files have their own file-level licences, and these may be different for each file where there's more than one. Look for licence information at the record level and also at the file level. Licence information is only displayed where known.

For enquiries on specific items in the Historic Royal Palaces repository, please use the Contact form linked at the bottom of the repository.

If you are the owner of the copyright or related rights in any of the material in the Historic Royal Palaces Research Repository and you believe that use of this material infringes your intellectual property or any other rights, or you believe that the material may be subject to a third party ownership or another legal claim, please contact us in writing using the Contact form.

To enquire about an item held in any of the other repositories, use the ‘Contact’ link at the bottom of that repository.

Currently, all content in the Shared Repository Service is openly available and there is no login for public users.

If a file you wish to view is embargoed, you must contact the relevant repository’s organisation to ask for access, please see below. Access is not guaranteed to any restricted item.

The Historic Royal Palaces’ repository is part of the Shared Repository Service, which brings together the research outputs of a number of UK-based cultural heritage organisations. The Shared Repository Service was originally intended for IROs (Independent Research Organisations), which are non-Higher Education organisations in receipt of public funding for their research. The Service has since grown to include cultural heritage organisations that produce research but are not classed as IROs.

The Shared Repository Service provides a window on the research produced by such organisations through a single point of access and discovery.

Each partner has its own repository which can be searched separately, but you can also explore the combined content of all partners by clicking on the ‘Shared Repository Homepage’ link at the top of each page. When a search is done at this level, results indicate the organisation responsible for that research.

Our current partners in the Shared Repository Service can be found on the main Shared Repository homepage. The British Library manages the Shared Service on behalf of all participating organisations.

The platform is run on an open source software, DSpace-CRIS 9, and is hosted by 4Science.

You can find this at https://historicroyalpalaces.iro.bl.uk/server/oai/

We would be delighted to tell you more about our repository and the Shared Repository Service. Simply send us an email to get in touch.