Index of Museum of English Rural Life
This is an in-progress list of some of the major archive and printed book collections held by the University's Museum of English Rural Life.
Click on the collection name for a description of its contents and details of how to request items for consultation.
Smaller collections are also available by searching the online database
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- Peter Adams Collection
- Records of farm survey work by ADAS includes a farm
- Agricare Products Ltd
- Agricultural Anhydrous Ammonia Ltd
- Agricultural Economics Society
- Agricultural Education Association
- Agricultural Education Association
- Agricultural Machinery Department, University of Reading
- Agricultural Organisation Society
- Agricultural Requisites & Mechanisations Ltd
- Agricultural Suppliers (W.H.Tom) Ltd
- Agriform Fertilisers Ltd
- Agriplan Buildings Ltd
- Aldersley Engineers Ltd
- Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd
- Alfred Cox (Surgical) Ltd
- Alfred Tennant Cowie
- Allen & Simmonds (Longham) Ltd
- Allis-Chalmers Great Britain Ltd
- Allmet (Leeds) Ltd
- Alpha Accord Ltd
- Alvan Blanch Development Co Ltd
- Amey Group Ltd
- R.C. Amsden Collection
- Andover Timber Co. Ltd
- Anvil Enterprise Ltd
- Archibald Kendrick and Sons Ltd
- Ardleigh Swift Ltd
- Armfield Agricultural Engineering Co.
- Arnolds Veterinary Products Ltd
- Ashworth Ross & Co. Ltd
- Asmer Seeds Ltd
- Aspatria Agricultural Co-operative
- Aspera Motors (England) Ltd
- Associated Fruit Growers of Essex Ltd.
- Associated Sprayers Ltd
- Atcost Ltd
- Automotive Products Ltd
- Avon Refrigeration Co. Ltd
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- Bagshawe & Co. Ltd
- Bamfords Ltd
- H.D.Barley, farmer, stockbreeder and agricultural writer
- Barnfield Farm, Edmonsham, Cranborne, Dorset
- Basingstoke and District Young Farmers Club
- H.E. Bates Manuscripts
- Bayer UK Ltd
- Baylis family
- BBC Tape Collection
- E.S. Beaven Collection
- Farms in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
- Beeby Bros
- Beecham Agricultural Products
- J.R.Bellerby, agricultural economist
- Benedict (Agriculture) Ltd
- Berks, Bucks and Oxon Farmers Ltd
- Farms in Berkshire - page 1
- Farms in Berkshire - page 3
- Farms in Berkshire - page 4
- Farms in Berkshire - page 5
- Farms in Berkshire - page 2
- Berry & Sons Ltd, Barnstaple, Devon
- Big Dutchman (Great Britain) Ltd
- Derek Bird Collection
- Blackett Collection
- Blackmoor Estate, Hampshire
- Blanch (British) Lely Ltd
- Blandy and Blandy, Solicitors, of Reading
- Bomford and Evershed Ltd
- Bottom Pond Farm, Hampshire
- Brickley Collection
- British Agricultural History Society
- Broomy Bank Farm, Malpas, Cheshire
- Michael Brown collection
- W.J. Brown Collection
- Farms in Buckinghamshire
- Papers of Charles Bucknell
- Farm records of A.J.D. Bucknell, Pangbourne, Berks
- Bulldog Tools Ltd
- Burbage Wharf
- Butter Council
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- Farms in Cambridgeshire
- Carters Tested Seeds Ltd
- Cav Ltd
- Central Office of Information
- Central Rights of Way Committee
- Central Southern Cereal Growers Ltd
- Charles Burrell & Sons Limited
- Charles Paddick
- Farms in Chester
- Chivers Collection
- Civil Aviation Authority
- Claydene Farm, Kent
- Clayton & Shuttleworth
- Colin Shaw Collection
- Philip Osborne Collier Collection
- Brenda Colvin Collection
- Conder (Agricultural) Ltd
- Cooch & Sons Ltd
- Cooper, McDougall and Robertson
- Richard Kent of Scotland Farm in Newlyn East, Cornwall
- Farms in Cornwall
- Cotswold Grass Seed Ltd
- Council for National Parks
- Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Country Landowners' Association
- Countryside Alliance
- County Planning Officers Society
- Ron Creasey Collection
- Sylvia Crowe collection
- Farms in Cumberland
- Cumberland and Westmorland Farmers Ltd
- Cumberland and Westmorland Farmers Ltd
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- William Dannatt Collection
- Dann-Lewis Collection
- David Brown Tractors
- David Miln & Co. (Seedsmen) Ltd
- Arthur Denby Wilkinson and The National Poultry Test Collection
- Farms in Derbyshire
- Farms in Devon
- The Dorothy Hartley Collection
- Farms in Dorset
- Dorset Farmers Ltd
- Drake & Fletcher Ltd
- Farms in Durham
- F.T. Dyer Collection
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- Colonel Gale Photographic Collection
- Gascoignes (Reading) Ltd
- Correspondence and papers of Miss P. Genever
- Geo. Monro Ltd
- Gilman-Fraser Ltd
- Glanfield Collection
- Gloucester Cattle Society
- Farms in Gloucestershire
- Farm diary of Brian A. Foster, Yew Tree Farm, Huntley, Gloucestershire
- Goodenoughs of Reading Ltd
- Norman Goodland Photographs
- Green & Carter Ltd
- The Grower Photographic Collection
- Guinness Barley Research Station
- Guthrie Allsebrook & Co. Ltd
- Eric Guy Photographic Collection
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- H. L. Drewitt
- H. Plowright & Sons Ltd
- Farms in Hampshire
- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Hampshire Cattle Breeders Association
- Hampshire Growers Ltd
- Hampton and Staines District Growers' Club
- Harry Ferguson Ltd
- Harry Hebditch Ltd
- Hartley & Sugden Ltd
- Hassan Collection
- Hawkeridge Farm Collection
- Hayters Ltd
- Farms in Herefordshire
- Farms in Hertfordshire
- The Hertfordshire Society
- Historic Farm Buildings Group
- Home Farm, Gorsington
- Hooper Photograph Collection
- Hopkins Collection
- Sue Hopson Collection
- Horticultural Education Association
- Chris Howell Photograph Collection
- Hungarian National Agricultural Museum
- Dr Herbert Hunter
- Farms in Huntingdonshire
- Hurst Gunson Cooper Taber Ltd
- Hussey & Son Ltd (auctioneers)
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- J S Engineering (Norfolk) Ltd
- J. & E. Ison & Son Ltd
- J. B. Edlington and Co Ltd
- J. Bibby & Sons Ltd
- J. Rands & Jeckell Ltd
- Preben Jakobsen collection
- James Gordon (Engineers) Ltd
- W.J. James Collection
- Geoffrey Jellicoe collection
- Susan Jellicoe photographic collection
- Jersey Cattle Society
- John Allen & Sons (Oxford) Ltd
- John Deere Ltd
- John Fowler & Co (Leeds) Ltd
- John George & Sons Ltd.
- Simon Johnson Collection
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- Ina Lamb Collection
- Farms in Lancashire
- Lancashire Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England
- The Land Settlement Association
- Wellington Estate Papers
- Landscape Institute archive and library
- R.B. Law Photographs
- Lawes Chemical Company Ltd
- Lee Collection
- Imperial Chemical Industries Collection
- Lee Irvine
- Farms in Leicestershire
- Lewis Collection
- Farms in Lincolnshire
- Lipson Lake Ltd
- Littleton and Badsey Growers Ltd
- Long Photographic Collection
- Long Clawson Dairy Ltd
- Lott and Walne Ltd
- Lydney and District Farmers Ltd
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- The Mair Collection
- J.E. Manners Collection
- Marshall, Sons & Co Ltd
- Martin-Markham Ltd
- Massey-Ferguson (UK) Ltd
- H.J. Massingham Collection
- D.R. Matthews Collection; British Dovecote Society
- Mayfield Collection
- McHattie & Co Ltd, Chester
- Messenger and Co. Ltd
- Farms in Middlesex
- Mil Ltd
- Milk Marketing Board
- Milner White collection
- Milton Keynes Survey
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Field Drainage Experimental Unit
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Agricultural Development and Advisory Service
- Farms in Monmouthshire
- Moore Piet +Brookes
- Mortimer Local History Group Collection
- Mr Allwright
- The Mullins Collection
- Museum of English Rural Life Archives
- Museum of English Rural Life Trade Literature Collection
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- Nalder & Nalder Ltd, Wantage
- National Dairymen's Benevolent Institution
- National Farmers' Union
- Agricultural Apprenticeship Council
- National Farmers Union Pewsey Vale, Calne and Devizes Branch
- National Farmers' Union Staffordshire Branch
- National Federation of Village Produce Associations
- National Institute for Research in Dairying
- National Traction Owners' & Users' Association
- National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
- New Holland Division Sperry Rand Ltd
- Farms in Norfolk part 1
- Farms in Norfolk part 2
- Norfolk Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England
- Farms in Northamptonshire
- Farms in Northumberland
- Farms in Nottinghamshire
- Philip Nye Collection
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- Frederick Thomas Painter Collection
- H.B. Parry Collection
- Rex Paterson Collection
- John Pawlyn Collection
- Penn Country Branch Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Perkins Collection
- W. Petch
- Peverett Collection
- Dr S.A. Peyton Collection
- Frank Pilcher Collection
- Plunkett Foundation for Cooperative Studies
- Alfred Pool Photographic Collection
- John Porter
- Power Farming Photographic Collection
- Preston Farmers Ltd
- Priestman Bros. Ltd
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- R. & J. Reeves & Sons Ltd
- R. Hunt & Co Ltd
- Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd
- Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ltd
- John Read Photographic Collection
- Reading and District Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Association
- Reading and District Young Farmers' Club
- Richard Garrett Engineering Works Ltd
- Richard Pearson Ltd
- Collection of T G Rimington
- The Road Locomotive Society
- Rogers Collection
- Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
- Royal Agricultural Society of England
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew
- Royal Forestry Society
- Royal Horticultural Society Photographs
- Roye Adams and Co Ltd
- Rural Development Commission/Countryside Commission
- Rural Industries Bureau Photographic Collection
- Ruston Paxman Diesels Ltd
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- Samuelson & Co Ltd
- Sandwich and District Growers Ltd.
- Bernard Selwyn Collection
- Sheffield and Peak District Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England
- Shell/CPRE Oral History archive
- Peter Shepheard collection
- Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Farms in Shropshire
- Shropshire Fatstock Society Ltd
- Silsoe Research Institute
- Simmonds and Lawrence, surveyors and estate agents
- Simons Collection
- Papers of Hugh Macdonald Sinclair
- Sisis Equipment (Macclesfield) Ltd
- Simplex of Cambridge Ltd
- E. Sixsmith
- Slades Farm, near Bramley, Surrey
- C.S. Smith Collection
- Norman Snell Papers
- Cecil F Snow Photographic Collection
- Soil Fertility Dunns Ltd
- Farms in Somerset
- South Western Quality Lamb Producers Ltd
- Southern Counties Agricultural Trading Society Ltd
- Sowrey Collection
- Spear & Jackson (Tools) Ltd
- Spear & Jackson Ltd
- Spearwell Tools Ltd
- Spencer-Harper Photographs
- Spillers Ltd Flour Mills
- Farms in Staffordshire
- Standing Conference on Countryside Sports
- R.G. Stapledon Collection
- Stebbing Collection
- Stockbuild Ltd
- Studley College, Warwickshire
- Farms in Suffolk
- Sulham House Photographic Collection
- Surrey Amenity Council
- Farms in Sussex
- Sutcliffe Gallery Photographs
- Sutton Seeds Ltd
- Suttons Seeds Catalogue Photographs
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- Clifford Tandy photographic collection
- John Tarlton Collection
- William Edward Tate
- Thames Valley Eggs Ltd
- Marian Thompson collection
- Thomson & Stammers (Dunmow) Ltd
- Doreen Thorp Collection
- Ruth Timbrell Collection
- Tolsey Museum Photographs
- Llewellyn Treacher Photographic Collection
- Twose of Tiverton Ltd
- John H.Tyson & Son
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- W. T. Teagle (Machinery) Ltd
- W.B. Stubbs (Hawksworth) Ltd
- Wallis & Steevens Ltd
- Walter A. Wood Co. Ltd, Horsham
- Anthony Walton Collection
- Wantage Engineering Company
- Farms in Warwickshire
- Waterhouse Collection
- Dr Watney Photographs
- West Midland Farmers Ltd
- West of England Farmers Ltd
- Gerry Westall Collection
- Western Woodland Owners Ltd
- Miss Wight Photographic Collection
- Wilder Collection
- William Aitkenhead Ltd
- William Cook Engineers Ltd
- William Cottis & Sons Ltd
- William Lambert & Co.
- William Pond & Sons Ltd
- Farms in Wiltshire, part 2
- Farms in Wiltshire
- Wokingham History Society Photographs
- Wokingham and District Agricultural Association
- Women's Farm and Garden Association
- Womens Institute
- Womens Institute
- Women's Land Army Collections at MERL
- Wondrausch collection of material relating to Dorothy Hartley
- George Woods Photographs
- Katherine Woods Photograph Collection
- Records of farms and estates near Redditch, Worcs
- Farms in Worcestershire
- The David Wray Collection
- Dorothy Wright Collection
- Sir Norman Wright
- Wynmalen Photographs