War

Our collections are a superb resource for the study of history and contain useful material for researchers studying past wars. Relevant material may be found across our collections. Please use the rare books search (for printed material) and the manuscripts search (for unpublished material including notebooks, papers, photographs and drawings) using keywords and date limits to target your search.

We have particularly strong holdings of material relating to the following:

English Civil War

• Ogilvie: some 1,500 pamphlets printed during the English Civil War period

Franco-Prussian War

• Caricatures: 3,188 political caricatures (mainly lithographs) covering the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris Commune of 1871 and the later years of the 1870s

Spanish Civil War

• Bissett: includes pamphlets on the Spanish Civil War

World War One

• Alec Lawrence Macfie Papers: includes letters written between 1917-18 describing military training and World War I service in France
• MS Gen 1376 & MS Gen 532: Papers relating to the 6th Cameron Highlanders in World War I

Web resources relating to world war one:

• Guide to finding primary resources on World War One in Special Collections
• The Bookman Christmas Special, 1918 (Book of the Month: December 2008)
• Sixth Battalion Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1915 (Book of the Month: September 2005)

and other periods of war:

• Poliorcetici Graeci: Treatises on Engines and Weapons, Italy, c 1510 (Book of the Month: August 2008)
• Japanese Prints of the Russo-Japanese War, 1903-1904 (Book of the Month: March 2008)
• Livy: Third Decade of the Roman History (relating to the Second Punic War, 218-201BC), Milan c 1450 (Book of the Month: October 2005)
• Diego Muñoz Camargo: Historia de Tlaxcala, including the Spanish conquest of the region, Mexico: 1585 (Book of the Month: January 2003)