Special Collections A-Z list
This is an in-progress list of the archive, rare book and other special collections held by the University. We are working to finish adding all our collections and to expand the descriptions.
Click on the collection name for a description of its contents and details of how to request items for consultation. You can also search the collection descriptions.
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- Archive of Bailliere, Tindall & Cox
- Baron Collection
- Papers of Vernon Bartlett
- Papers of Henry Bassett
- Taner Baybars Collection
- Aubrey Beardsley Collection
- Beckett Collection
- Bee Collection
- Archive of George Bell & Sons Ltd
- Records of A & C Black
- Archives of The Bodley Head Ltd
- Records of Boydell & Brewer
- Records of the 'Britain in Europe' movement: Reading Branch
- British Council letters and reports
- H.M. Brock Collection
- Buckland Parish Library
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- Archives of Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Papers of Gerda Charles
- Records of Chatto & Windus Ltd
- Papers of Henry Curtis Cherry
- Children's Collection
- Papers of W.M. Childs
- Papers of James Cleugh
- Records of William Clowes & Sons
- Coburn Collection
- Cole Library
- Archive of Leo Cooper
- Papers of Gwendoline Courtney
- Cowie Collection
- Papers of Pearl Craigie
- Archive of Crosby Lockwood
- Crusoe Collection
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- Papers of Miles Hadfield
- Hale White Collection
- Papers of John Hampson
- T.M. Harris Collection
- Papers and artwork of Michael Harvey
- Hawkins Collection
- Papers of Herbert Leader Hawkins
- Henley Parish Library
- Papers of Robert Henriques
- Papers of Herberth E. Herlitschka
- John Hetherington Collection
- Archives of The Hogarth Press
- Papers of Roy Horniman
- Artworks and letters of William Thomas Horton
- Records of Huntley and Palmers
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- Records of Ladybird Books
- Papers of David Lean
- John Lewis Printing Collection
- Reports of the Working Party on Library and Book Trade Relations
- Archive of the London Typographical Designers Ltd
- Records of the Longman Group
- Mark Longman Library
- Papers of Edward Lucie-Smith
- Work diaries of Robert Lusty
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- Records of Macmillan and Co. Ltd
- Early manuscripts
- Papers of Richard Marsh
- Elkin Mathews Collection
- Matthews-Shelley Collection
- Archive of Ruari McLean Associates
- Letters of Arthur Mee
- Papers of R.L. Megroz
- Records of Merlin Press
- Papers of William Mitchell
- Papers of Nicholas Moore
- Papers of Thomas Sturge Moore
- Papers of Edwin Morgan
- Papers of Edith Julia Morley
- Correspondence of Lewis Mumford and W.W. Mann
- Papers of the Robert Musil Research Unit
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- Pamphlet Books Collection
- Records of Peek Frean
- Archive of Phoenix House Ltd
- Papers of Frederick Pickering Pickering
- Records of Pierson & Park
- Porter Collection of Letterbox Ephemera
- Poetry notebooks of Peter Porter
- Printing Collection
- Publishers' catalogues, prospectuses and announcements 1800-1815
- Publishers' catalogues, prospectuses and announcements 1816-1889
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- Documents from the Salò Republic
- Records of Secker & Warburg
- Papers of G.W. Series
- Papers of Ian Serraillier
- Papers of Robert Harborough Sherard
- Press archives of Christopher Skelton
- Papers of Plantagenet Somerset Fry
- Sowerby Collection
- Papers of Ruth Speirs
- Spellman Collection
- Papers of Bernard Spencer
- Papers of Cecil Sprigge
- Papers of Sir Frank Merry Stenton and Lady Doris Stenton
- Stenton Coin Collection
- Stenton Library
- Papers of Robert Garioch Sutherland
- Archives of Swan Sonnenschein & Co