Find Archival Materials
Archives Services
Archive Services hold the records that document the history of the University and its management, staff and students from its foundation in 1451 to the present day. We also have one of the largest collections of historical business records in Europe and it includes much of the archive of Scottish industries such as banking, retail, distilling and shipbuilding.
Search for archival material in Archives Services
Special Collections
Special Collections holds more than 200,000 manuscript/archival items as well as over 200,000 early printed works and other rare books.
Search for archival material in Special Collections
- Manuscripts (unpublished material – manuscripts, photograph albums, correspondence etc)
- Scottish Theatre Archive (this finds all material held in the Scottish Theatre Archive – programmes, scripts, photographs etc)
- Hill & Adamson (this finds digitised photographs from an important collection of early photographs produced by the partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847)
NB. For printed material, use the rare books search. There are also separate searches available for finding 19th Century Novels and Chapbooks.