Special Collections A to Z
Our Guide to Special Collections provides the best overview of our outstanding collections of printed books, manuscripts and archives. Over 350 descriptions are available.
A | B | C | D| E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | PQ | R | S | T | U | V | WXYZ
A
- Abraham, E. Mitford, Windmills and Watermills Collection [MS]
- Accounting Standards Committee Archive [MS]
- Accrington Conservative Club Archive [MS]
- Adamson, Robert, Papers [MS]
- Agecroft Rowing Club Papers [MS]
- Akkadian Clay Tablets [MS]
- Aladin Papers [MS]
- Aldine Collection [Pr]
- Alexander, Samuel, Papers [MS]
- Allardyce Nicoll Drama Collection [Pr]
- Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners of Lancashire and Cheshire [MS]
- American Sunday School Union Collection [Pr]
- Anti-Slavery Collection (Raymond English) [MS]
- Anti-Slavery Collection (H.J. Wilson) [Pr]
- Arabic Manuscripts [MS]
- Architectural Books [Pr]
- Arderne Deeds [MS]
- Ariosto, Lodovico, Collection [Pr]
- Armenian Manuscripts [MS]
- Ashburne Hall Collection [Pr]
- Ashton Textile Employers' Association Archive [MS]
- Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons Archive [MS]
- Astle Deeds [MS]
- Auchinleck Papers [MS]
- Audenshaw Foundation Archive [MS]
- Auditing Practices Committee Archive [MS]
- Axon Papers [MS]
B
- Bagshawe Muniments [MS]
- Baker, Henry, Papers [MS]
- Balinese Manuscripts [MS]
- Bannatyne and Maitland Collection [Pr]
- Baptist College Archive [MS]
- Baptist College Printed Collection [Pr]
- Baskerville Collection [Pr]
- Batak Manuscripts [MS]
- Beaumont Charters [MS]
- Behrens, Leonard, Papers [MS]
- Bellot Papers [MS]
- Bellot Printed Collection [Pr]
- Bengali Manuscripts [MS]
- Benson Collection [Pr]
- Benson, Joseph, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Bible Collection [Pr]
- Bible Christian Collection ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Black, Joseph, Papers [MS]
- Blundell, Harold, (George Bellairs) Collection [Pr/MS]
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, Collection [Pr]
- Bodoni Collection [Pr]
- Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association Archive [MS]
- Booker Map Collection [Pr]
- Botfield Papers [MS]
- Bourne, Hugh, Collection ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Bowring Papers [MS]
- Dr Bray Clerical Lending Library [Pr]
- Brockbank Cricket Collection [Pr]
- Bromley Davenport Muniments [MS]
- Brook, G.L., Drama Collection [Pr]
- Brook, G.L., Theology Collection [Pr]
- Brooke of Mere Muniments [MS]
- Brown, Kenneth, Collection (See the Railway Collections) [Pr]
- Buginese Manuscripts [MS]
- Bullock Collection [Pr]
- Bunyan, John, Collection [Pr]
- Burkhardt, George, Papers [MS]
- Burmese Manuscripts [MS]
- Burney, E.L., Collection [Pr]
- Byrom Collection [MS]
- Byron Collection [Pr]
C
- Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre Archive [MS]
- Carcanet Press Archive [MS]
- Carcanet Press Book Collection [Pr]
- Carrington Papers [MS]
- Casdagli Collection [Pr]
- Cassedy Collection [Pr]
- Charles White Club Archive [MS]
- Chemistry Department, University of Manchester, Archive [MS]
- Children's Literature Collections [Pr]
- Chinese Collection [Pr/MS]
- Christian Brethren Collections [MS & PR]
- Christie Collection [Pr]
- Christy, W.M., & Sons Ltd Archive [MS]
- Church, Richard, Papers [MS]
- Clarke, Adam, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Classical Literature Collection [Pr]
- Clinton Papers [MS]
- Clogher Diocesan Library [Pr]
- Clowes Deeds [MS]
- Clowes, William, collection ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Coke, Thomas, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Congregational College Archives [MS]
- Congregational College Printed Collection [Pr]
- Cooper, William Mansfield, Papers [MS]
- Coptic Manuscripts [MS]
- Cornwall-Legh Muniments [MS]
- County Histories Collection [Pr]
- Court, Lewis, Bible Christian Collection ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Cox, C.B., Archive [MS]
- Cox, Jack, Collection [Pr/MS]
- Critical Quarterly Archive [MS]
- Crozier, Robert, Collection [MS]
- Crozier, W.P., Papers [MS]
- Cruickshank, Durward, Papers
- Crutchley Muniments [MS]
- Cuban Women Writers Collection [Pr]
D
- Dale Papers [MS]
- Dalton, John, Papers [MS]
- Dante Alighieri Collection [Pr]
- Davies, Rupert, Collection (See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Dawkins, Sir William Boyd, Papers [MS]
- Deaf Education Collection [Pr]
- Dean, Basil, Archive [MS]
- Derbyshire, Delia, Papers
- Donat, Robert, Archive [MS]
- Dowd, Anthony, Collection of Modern Bookbindings [Pr]
- Ducie Muniments [MS]
- Dumas, Alexandre, Collection of Douglas Munro [Pr]
- Dutch Manuscripts [MS]
- Dyckhoff, Eric, collection (See the Railways Collections)
E
- Early Preachers Collection (See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- East India Company Papers [MS]
- Edmondson, Thomas, Collection (See the Railway Collections)
- Egerton of Tatton Papers [MS]
- Egyptian Manuscripts [MS]
- Eighteenth-Century Literary Publications Collection [Pr]
- Election Literature Collection [Pr]
- English, Raymond, Anti-Slavery Collection [MS]
- English Manuscripts [MS]
- English Tract Collection [Pr]
- Engravers' Trade Unions Archive [MS]
- Esperanto Collection of Neil Salvesen [Pr]
- Ethiopian Manuscripts [MS]
F
- Fairfax Murray Papers [MS]
- Far Eastern Manuscripts [MS]
- Farrar Deaf Education Collection [Pr]
- Faunthorpe, B.R., Collection re Joseph Whitworth [MS]
- Ferguson Collection [Pr]
- Fielden brothers, Papers of [MS]
- Finer, Samuel, Papers [MS]
- Finney of Fulshaw Muniments [MS]
- Foulis Press Collection [Pr]
- Freeman, Edward, Papers [MS]
- Freeman, Edward, Printed Collection [Pr]
- French Manuscripts [MS]
- French Revolution Collection [Pr]
- Freud, Sigmund, Papers [MS]
G
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, Manuscript Collection [MS]
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, Printed Collection [Pr]
- Gaster, Moses, Collection [MS/Pr]
- German Manuscripts [MS]
- Gissing, George, Collection [Pr]
- Graham, John, Papers [MS]
- Greater Manchester Mill Survey Archive [MS] View online catalogue
- Greek Manuscripts [MS]
- Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers [MS]
- Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive [MS/Pr]
- Guarini, Giovanni Battista, Collection [Pr]
H
- Hartley, L.P., Book Collection [Pr]
- Hartley, L.P., Papers [MS]
- Hartley Victoria College Collection ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Hartog, Philip, Papers [MS]
- Haskalah Collection [Pr]
- Heald Family Papers [MS]
- Hebrew Manuscripts [MS]
- Henshaw's Society for the Blind Records [MS]
- Hibbert-Ware Papers [MS]
- Hindustani Manuscripts [MS]
- Hobill Collection [Pr]
- Hodgson, Robinson & Co. Archive [MS]
- Holtorp, Hiero von, Collection [Pr]
- Horniman, Annie, Papers [MS]
- Houédard, Dom Silvester, Book Collection [Pr]
- Houédard, Dom Silvester, Papers [MS]
- Huchel, Peter, Collection of German Literature [Pr/MS]
- Hugo, Victor, Book Collection [Pr]
- Hugo, Victor, Papers [MS]
- Hunt, Holman, Papers [MS]
- Hunt, Hugh, Papers [MS]
- Hutton, R.S., Papers [MS]
- Hymn Collection of John Rylands [Pr]
I
- Icelandic Manuscripts [MS]
- Illustrated Books [Pr]
- Incunabula Collection [Pr]
- Indian Empire Collection [Pr]
- Industrial Mission Association Archive [MS]
- International Woman Suffrage Alliance Archive [MS]
- Irish Manuscripts [MS]
- Italian Manuscripts [MS]
J
- Jackson Family Papers [MS]
- Japanese Collection [Pr/MS]
- Javanese Manuscripts [MS]
- Jefferson, Sir Geoffrey, Papers [MS]
- Jevons Family Papers [MS]
- Jodrell Bank Archive [MS]
- Jodrell Muniments [MS]
- Johnson, Adam, Papers [MS]
- Johnson, Samuel, Collection [Pr]
- Joseph, Stephen, Papers [MS]
K
- Kannada Manuscripts [MS]
- Kawi Manuscripts [MS]
- Kay-Shuttleworth Papers [MS]
- Keiser, Jack, Papers [MS]
- Kinder Collection [Pr/MS]
- Kennedy, Michael, Collection [MS]
- Kopal, Zdenek, Papers [MS]
L
- Landor, Walter Savage, Papers [MS]
- Latin Manuscripts [MS]
- League of the Good Samaritan Archive [MS]
- Lee, Prince, Collection [Pr]
- Legh of Lyme Muniments [MS]
- Leycester of Toft Muniments [MS]
- Lloyd Roberts Collection [Pr]
M
- McConnel & Kennedy Archive [MS]
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, Papers [MS]
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, Collection [Pr]
- Madurese Manuscripts [MS]
- Mainwaring Manuscripts [MS]
- Makasarese Manuscripts [MS]
- Malay Manuscripts [MS]
- Malayalam Manuscripts [MS]
- Manchester Airport Second Runway Inquiry Archive [MS]
- Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive [MS]
- Manchester Geographical Society Collection [Pr]
- Manchester Guardian Archive [MS/Pr]
- Manchester Medical Collection [MS/Pr]
- Manchester Medical Society Archive [MS]
- Manchester Medical Society Manuscripts [MS]
- Manchester Men's League for Women's Suffrage Archive [MS]
- Manchester Odontological Society Archive [MS]
- Manchester Paediatric Club Archive [MS]
- Manchester Pathological Society Archive [MS]
- Manchester Pharmaceutical Association Archive [MS]
- Manchester Reform Club Archive [MS]
- Manchester Society of Architects Archive [MS]
- Manchester Surgical Society Archive [MS]
- Manchester University Archives [MS]
- Manson, Thomas, Papers [MS]
- Marathi Manuscripts [MS]
- Marmorstein Collection [Pr]
- Marshall, Arthur, Papers [MS]
- Mathematical Printed Collection [Pr]
- Mazarinades Collection [Pr]
- Medical Printed Collections [Pr]
- Medici Records [MS]
- Melville Papers [MS]
- Methodist Archives ( See the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Methodist Archives Printed Book Collections ( See the Methodist Collections) [Pr]
- Micklethwaite Correspondence [MS]
- Midgley Reference Library [Pr]
- Mills and Booker Map Collections [Pr]
- Millward, K.G.,Collection [Pr/MS]
- Milton, John, Collection [Pr]
- Minor Sixteenth-Century Italian Writers Collection [Pr]
- Modern Indian Languages Manuscripts [MS]
- Monkhouse, Allan, Papers [MS]
- Montague, C.E., Papers [MS]
- Moravian Church Manuscripts [MS]
- Mo-So Manuscripts [MS]
- Mount Stuart Collection [MS]
- Munro, Douglas, Dumas Collection [Pr]
- Munro, Thomas, Papers [MS]
- Murray, Charles Fairfax, Papers [MS]
- Music Collections [Pr/MS]
N
- Namier, Lewis, Papers [MS]
- National Archive for the History of Computing [MS]
- National Medical Union, Manchester Branch, Archive [MS]
- National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Archive [MS]
- Natural History and Ornithological Collection [Pr]
- Neale, Sir John, Collection [Pr]
- Near Eastern Manuscripts [MS]
- Newbold Papers [MS]
- Nicholas Papers [MS]
- Nicholson, Norman, Archive [MS]
- Nicholson, Norman, Book Collection [Pr]
- Nicoll, Allardyce, Drama Collection [Pr]
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction Collection [Pr]
- Nordlinger, Marie Riefstahl, Proust Collection [Pr]
- Northern Baptist College Archive [MS]
- Northern Baptist College Printed Collection [Pr]
- Northern Congregational College Archives [MS]
- Northern Congregational College Printed Collection [Pr]
O
- O'Gowan, Major-General Eric Edward Dorman, Military Papers [MS]
- Oldham Textile Employers' Association Archive [MS]
- Oldknow Papers [MS]
- Orford Papers [MS]
- Oriya Manuscripts [MS]
- Owen Owens & Sons Archive [MS]
PQ
- Pali Manuscripts [MS]
- Parkinson, Roger, Papers [MS]
- Parliamentary Committee for Women’s Suffrage Archive [MS]
- Parsi Manuscripts [MS]
- Partington Collection [Pr]
- Pashto Manuscripts [MS]
- Pathological Society of Manchester Archive [MS]
- Peake, Arthur Samuel, Papers [MS]
- Pearce, Preston, Collection [Pr]
- Pearson, J. Arthur, Papers [MS]
- Persian Manuscripts [MS]
- Petrarch, Francesco, Collection [Pr]
- Pettitt, Henry, Papers [MS]
- Phillipps Charters [MS]
- Pilkington, Margaret, Papers [MS]
- Pink Papers [MS]
- Pit Prop Theatre Company Archive [MS]
- Platt, Sir Harry, Papers [MS]
- Pluscarden Charters [MS]
- Poll Book Collection [Pr]
- Prince Lee Collection [Pr]
- Private Press Collection [Pr]
- Proust, Marcel, Collection of Marie Riefstahl Nordlinger [Pr]
- Punjabi Manuscripts [MS]
R
- Raffles, Thomas, Collection [MS]
- Railway Collections [Pr]
- Rattenbury, Harold Burgoyne, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Rattenbury, John, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Rattenbury, John Ernest, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Raw, Stephen, Papers [MS]
- Reformation Collection [Pr]
- Reymond, Eve, Papers [MS]
- Rice, Spring, Collection [MS]
- Richardson, Dorothy, Papers [MS]
- Roberts, Lloyd, Collection [Pr]
- Robbins, Michael, Collection (See the Railway Collections)
- Roscoe, Henry, Papers [MS]
- Rose, Frederick, Papers
- Roundell Muniments [MS]
- Rowe, Peter, Archive [MS]
- Roxburghe Club Collection [Pr]
- Ruskin, John, Book Collection [Pr]
- Ruskin, John, Papers [MS]
- Rylands, John, Hymn Collection [Pr]
- Rylands and Sons Archive [MS]
- Rylands Charters [MS]
- Rylands Library Archive [MS]
S
- Salisbury, Frank O., Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Salvesen, Neil, Esperanto Collection [Pr]
- Samaritan Manuscripts [MS]
- Sanskrit Manuscripts [MS]
- Satterthwaite Collection [Pr]
- Schmidt, Michael, Archive [MS]
- Schunck Library [Pr]
- Schuster, Arthur, Papers [MS]
- Sedbergh School Library [MS]
- Seventeenth-Century Literary Publications Collection [Pr]
- Shackleton Collection [Pr]
- Shakespeare Collection [Pr]
- Sharpe Chapbook Collection [Pr]
- Sharps, J.G., Papers of
- Siamese (Thai) Manuscripts [MS]
- Simon Papers [MS]
- Sinclair, Upton, Collection [Pr/MS]
- Sinhalese Manuscripts [MS]
- Sixsmith Collection of Miscellanea (English MS 1330) [MS]
- Sixsmith Collection of Photographic and Printed Material (English MS 1331) [MS/Pr]
- Sixsmith Collection of Traubel Correspondence (English MS 1172) [MS]
- Sixsmith Edward Carpenter Collection (English MS 1171) [MS]
- Sixsmith Walt Whitman Collection (English MS 1170) [MS]
- Slade, Peter, Collection [MS]
- Smith, Sir Grafton Elliot, Papers [MS]
- Smith Memorial Collection [Pr]
- Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Archive [MS]
- Society of Medical Officers of Health, North Western Branch [MS]
- South-East Asian Manuscripts [MS]
- Spanish Manuscripts [MS]
- Spencer Collection [Pr]
- Spenser, Edmund, Collection [Pr]
- Spielmann Collection [MS]
- Spring, Howard, Manuscripts [MS]
- Spring Rice Collection [MS]
- Stamford Papers from Dunham Massey [MS]
- Stanley of Alderley Deeds and Papers [MS]
- Stapleton Manuscripts [MS]
- Stevens, Wallace, Collection [MS]
- Stirland Public Health Collection [MS]
- Stopes, Marie, and Birth Control Collection [Pr]
- Strachan Book Collection [Pr]
- Strachan, John, Papers [MS]
- Students Union, University of Manchester, Archive [MS]
- Sumerian and Akkadian Clay Tablets [MS]
- Sun Mill Archive [MS]
- Sutherland Collection [Pr]
- Syriac Manuscripts [MS]
T
- Tabley Book Collection [Pr]
- Tabley Muniments [MS]
- Tait, James, Papers [MS]
- Tamil Manuscripts [MS]
- TANKS Group Archive [MS]
- Tasso, Torquato, Collection [Pr]
- Tastu, Amable, Papers [MS]
- Tatton of Wythenshawe Muniments [MS]
- Tealdi Correspondence [MS]
- Teltscher Archive [Pr]
- Telugu Manuscripts [MS]
- Thai (Siamese) Manuscripts [MS]
- Thompson, Francis, Collection [Pr]
- Thomson Byrom Collection [MS]
- Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts [MS]
- Tibetan Manuscripts [MS]
- Tout, T.F., Papers [MS]
- Tregaskis Collections[Pr]
- Turkish Manuscripts [MS]
- Tylecote, Dame Mabel, Papers [MS]
- Tylecote, Dame Mabel, Printed Collection [Pr]
- Tynan, Katharine, Collection [MS]
- Tyson, Moses, Papers [MS]
U
- Unitarian College Archives [MS]
- Unitarian College Printed Collection [Pr]
- University of Manchester Archives [MS]
- Urwick Library [Pr]
- Uttley, Alison, Papers [MS/Pr]
V
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester Archive [MS]
- Vinaver, Eugène, Collection [Pr]
- Viner Bookplate Collection [Pr]
- Vipont, Elfrida, Collection [MS/Pr]
- Voyages and Travels Collection [Pr]
WXYZ
- Wadsworth Manuscripts [MS]
- Walker, Arthur D., Music Collection [Pr/MS]
- Warburton of Arley Muniments and Related Collections [MS]
- Wardlaw, Claude Wilson, Papers [MS]
- Wedgwood Correspondence [MS]
- Wesley, Charles, Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Wesley Collection (Rylands) [Pr]
- Wesley Family Papers ( See the Manuscripts and Archives of the Methodist Collections) [MS]
- Western (European) Manuscripts [MS]
- White, Charles, Club Archive [MS]
- Whitman, Walt, Book Collection [Pr]
- Whitman, Walt, Manuscript Collections [MS]
- Whitworth, Joseph, Collection of B.R. Faunthorpe [MS]
- Wickstead Papers [MS]
- William Temple Foundation Archives [MS]
- Wills, W.M., Home Front Diaries [MS]
- Wilson, D.A., Papers [MS]
- Wilson, H.J., Anti-Slavery Collection [Pr]
- Windmills and Watermills Collection of E. Mitford Abraham [MS]
- Wingate, Orde, (Burma Campaign) Collections [MS]
- Wise, Thomas J., Collection [Pr]
- Women in Theology Group Archive [MS]
- Women's Suffrage Movement Archives [MS]
- Wood Street Mission Archive [MS]
- Woolley, James, Sons & Co. Ltd Archive [MS]
- Worthington, Sir Hubert, Papers [MS]
