Archives & Special Collections

Digitised collections

With millions of pages of unique and distinctive collections to make available for study, we have only made a start with sharing them online.

Most is being carefully preserved on shelves for future use.

Selections and stories from our collections are available digitally in a number of ways. Some, like our blogs and online exhibitions, we have created ourselves.  Others have been created in partnership with academic colleagues or with funding bodies.

We aim to make as much as possible freely available but occasionally third party agreements or other legal considerations will prevent this.

Please note, not everything on the following pages is to the current accessibility standards.

NEW: Digital Research Collections: enhanced digital access to selected unique and distinctive collections

Discover selected collections available via JSTOR Collections

Browse our virtual exhibitions & online collections (Subject index)

Browse our Flickr albums (A-Z index)

Browse our Book of the Month Archive