Special Collections A to Z
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A
- Windmill and Watermill Collection of Edward Mitford Abraham
- Accounting Standards Committee Archive
- Robert Adamson Papers
- Agecroft Rowing Club Archive
- William Harrison Ainsworth Book Collection
- William Harrison Ainsworth Papers
- Alexis Aladin Papers
- Aldine Collection
- Samuel Alexander Papers
- Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners Archive
- American Sunday School Union Collection
- Ancoats Social Survey Archive
- Anvil Press Archive
- Anvil Press Printed Collection
- Arabic Manuscripts
- Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Archive
- Architectural Printed Works
- Arderne Deeds
- Lodovico Ariosto Printed Works
- David Arkell Papers
- Armenian Manuscripts
- Ashburne Hall Collection
- Ashton Textile Employers' Association Archive
- Ashworth Cross Family Papers
- Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons Archive
- Astle Deeds
- Auchinleck Papers
- Auction Catalogues
- Audenshaw Foundation Archive
- Auditing Practices Committee Archive
- Axon Papers
B
- Bagshawe Family Muniments
- Henry Baker Papers
- Bannatyne Club and Maitland Club
- Baskerville Press
- Mary Bateson Papers
- Beaumont Charters
- Leonard Behrens Papers
- Bellot Papers
- Hugh H. Bellot Book Collection
- Benson Collection
- Joseph Benson Papers
- Bible Collection
- Bible in Basic English Collection
- Handley Bird Papers
- Joseph Black Manuscripts
- David Blamires Alphabet Book Collection
- Harold Blundell (George Bellairs) Papers
- Giovanni Boccaccio Printed Works
- Giambattista Bodoni Printed Works
- Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association Archive
- Booker and Mills Map Collections
- Botfield Papers
- Hugh Bourne Collection
- Vivian Bowden Papers
- Bowring Papers
- Alison Brackenbury Papers
- Dr Bray Clerical Lending Library
- Britain in Pictures Collection
- British Victorian Photography Collection
- Brockbank Cricket Collection
- Linda Brogan Archive
- Bromley Davenport Muniments
- George L. Brook Drama Collection
- George L. Brook Theology Collection
- Brooke of Mere Muniments
- Bullock Collection
- John Bunyan Printed Works
- E. L. Burney Book Collection
- Lord Byron Printed Works
C
- Café Royal Books
- Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre Archive
- Carcanet Press Archive
- Carcanet Press Book Collection
- Carrington Papers
- Olga X. Casdagli Book Collection
- James Cassedy Book Collection
- David Chadwick Photography Collection
- John Charnley Collection
- Children's Printed Collection
- Chinese Collection
- Christian Brethren Archive
- Christian Women's Information and Resource Service Archive
- Christie Collection
- W. M. Christy and Sons Ltd. Archive
- Richard Church Papers
- Adam Clarke Papers
- Classical Literature
- Clayton and Morris Papers
- Clinton Papers
- Clogher Diocesan Library Collection
- Clowes Deeds
- William Clowes Papers
- Richard Cobden Letters
- Alvin Langdon Coburn Photography Collection
- Thomas Coke Papers
- Margaret Collin Papers
- Congregational College Archives
- Congregational College Printed Collection
- William Mansfield Cooper Papers
- Copinger-Hartland Manuscripts Collection
- Coptic Manuscripts
- Cornwall-Legh Muniments
- County Histories
- Lewis Court Bible Christian Collection
- Brian Cox Papers
- Brian Cox Printed Collection
- Jack Cox Papers
- Jack Cox Printed Collection
- Walter Crane Archive
- Crawford Collection
- Critical Quarterly Archive
- Robert Crozier Collection
- W. P. Crozier Papers
- Durward Cruickshank Papers
- Crutchley Muniments
- Cuban Women Writers Collection
- Kevin Cummins Archive
- Cuneiform Tablets
- Dave Cunliffe Collection
- Neil Curry Papers
- Ian Curtis Archive
D
- Dale Papers
- John Dalton Manuscripts
- Dante Alighieri Printed Works
- John Nelson Darby Papers
- Alfred Darbyshire Collection
- John Davies Photography Collection
- Rupert Davies Papers
- Richard Davis Photography Collection
- Sir William Boyd Dawkins Papers
- Deaf Education Collection
- Basil Dean Archive
- Basil Dean Book Collection
- Delia Derbyshire Papers
- Ely Devons Papers
- Bob Dickinson Archive
- Robert Donat Archive
- Daniel Dougal Diaries
- Anthony Dowd Bindings Collection
- Ducie Muniments
- Robert Dunlop Papers
- Dutch Manuscripts
- Tony Dyson Papers
E
- Early Preachers Collection
- East India Company Papers
- Echoes of Service Archive
- Egerton of Tatton Papers
- Egyptian Manuscripts
- Eighteenth-Century Literary Publications
- Election Literature Collection
- English Manuscripts
- English Tract Collection
- Raymond English Anti-Slavery Collection
- Engravers' Trade Unions Archive
- Esperanto Collection
- Ethiopic Manuscripts
- Alfred Cyril Ewing Papers
- Excavating The Reno Archive
F
- B. R. Faunthorpe Papers relating to Joseph Whitworth
- Elaine Feinstein Papers
- Frederick S. Ferguson Book Collection
- Fielden Brothers Papers
- Samuel Finer Papers
- Finney of Fulshaw Deeds
- First World War Printed Collection
- Ray Fitzwalter Archive
- Fletcher-Tooth Collection
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office Pamphlet Collection
- Foulis Press
- Frankland Papers
- Edward Freeman Papers
- Edward Freeman Printed Collection
- Allen Freer Book Collection
- Allen Freer Papers
- French Manuscripts
- French Revolution Collection
- Freud Family Papers
- Norman Frisby Archive
- Fry Collection
G
- Elizabeth Gaskell Manuscript Collection
- Elizabeth Gaskell Printed Works
- Moses Gaster Collection
- Moses Gaster Manuscripts Collection
- Moses Gaster Papers
- Rylands Cairo Genizah Collection
- German Manuscripts
- George Gissing Collection
- Max Gluckman Papers
- Richard Goulden Collection
- John Graham Papers
- Greater Manchester Mill Survey Archive
- Greek Manuscripts
- Green Anti-Methodist Collection
- Rob Gretton Archive
- Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers
- Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive
- Giovanni Battista Guarini Printed Works
- Derek Guttery Papers
H
- Mary Hamilton Papers
- Rodney Harris Papers
- Hartley Victoria College Collection
- L. P. Hartley Book Collection
- L. P. Hartley Papers
- Haskalah Collection
- Hayloft Press Archive
- Heald-Hall Family Papers
- John Heath-Stubbs Book Collection
- John Heath-Stubbs Papers
- Hebrew Manuscripts
- Gustave Adolphe Hemsalech Papers
- Henshaws (Henshaw’s Society for Blind People) Archive
- Hibbert-Ware Papers
- Sydney Hickson Papers
- Leslie Hilliard Papers
- Samuel Hird Papers
- History of Computing Collection
- Hobill Collection
- Hodgson, Robinson and Company Archive
- Hiero von Holtorp Collection
- Annie Horniman Papers
- dom sylvester houédard Book Collection
- dom sylvester houédard Papers
- Mark Hovell Papers
- Peter Huchel Collection of German Literature
- Victor Hugo Book Collection
- Victor Hugo Collection
- Holman Hunt Papers
- Hugh Hunt Papers
- Robert Salmon Hutton Papers
I
- Icelandic Manuscripts
- ICI Dyestuffs Division Archive
- Illustrated Books
- Incunabula Collection
- Indian Empire and East India Company Printed Works
- Industrial Mission Association Archive
- Irish Manuscripts
- Ian Isherwood Papers
- Italian Manuscripts
J
- Jackson Family Papers
- Dawson Jackson Papers
- Jamison Family Archive
- Japanese Collection
- Sir Geoffrey Jefferson Papers
- Elizabeth Jennings Papers
- Jevons Family Papers
- Jewsbury Papers
- Jodrell Bank Observatory Archive
- Jodrell Muniments
- Adam Johnson Papers
- George Johnson Wood-Engraving Collection
- Samuel Johnson Printed Works
- Stephen Joseph Papers
- James Prescott Joule Papers
K
- James Kay-Shuttleworth Papers
- Jack Keiser Papers
- Stephen Kelly and Judith Jones Archive
- Michael Kennedy Papers
- Trevor Key Archive
- Claude Kinder Papers
- Gordon Kinder Collection
- Zdenek Kopal Papers
L
- Walter Savage Landor Papers
- Ronald Lane Papers
- Latin Manuscripts
- League of the Good Samaritan Archive
- CP Lee Archive
- Legh of Lyme Muniments
- Papers of C. A. Lejeune
- Leycester of Toft Muniments
- Li Yuan-chia Archive
- Grevel Lindop Papers
- Lloyd Roberts Collection
- Jan Łukasiewicz Papers
M
- James Ramsay MacDonald Papers
- Niccolò Machiavelli Printed Works
- Mainwaring Manuscripts
- Manchester Airport Second Runway Inquiry Archive
- Manchester and Salford College for Women Archive
- Manchester Classical Association, Excavations Committee Records
- Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive
- Manchester Geographical Society Archive
- Manchester Geographical Society Collection
- Manchester Geographical Society Photographic Slides Collection
- Manchester Joint Research Council Archive
- Manchester Masonic Research Collection
- Manchester Mechanics' Institution Archive
- Manchester Medical Collection
- Manchester Medical Society Archive
- Manchester Museum Archive
- Manchester Pharmaceutical Association Archive
- Manchester Reform Club Archive
- Manchester Settlement Archive
- Manchester Society of Architects Archive
- Thomas Manson Papers
- John P. Marmion Book Collection
- Marmorstein Collection
- Arthur Milnes Marshall Papers
- Mathematical Printed Works
- Mazarinades Collection
- Anthony McCarthy Collection
- Grigor McClelland Papers
- McConnel and Kennedy Archive
- Chris McCully Papers
- Medical Manuscripts Collection
- Medical Printed Collections
- Records of the Medici Family of Florence
- Melville Papers
- Methodist Printed Book and Periodical Collections
- Micklethwaite Correspondence
- Midgley Reference Library
- K. G. Millward Collection
- John Milton Printed Works
- George Mitchell Papers
- Allan Monkhouse Papers
- C. E. Montague Papers
- Moravian Church Manuscripts
- Edgar Morton Papers
- Mo-So (Na-khi) Manuscripts
- Mount Stuart Collection
- Douglas Munro Alexandre Dumas père Collection
- Thomas Munro Papers
- Charles Fairfax Murray Papers
- Music Collections
N
- Lewis Namier Papers
- Nantwich Parochial Library
- National Medical Union Archive
- Natural History and Ornithology Printed Works
- Sir John E. Neale Book Collection
- Francis Neilson Papers
- Newbold Papers
- Nicholas Papers
- Nicholson Papers
- Andrew Nicholson Book Collection
- Norman Nicholson Book Collection
- Norman Nicholson Papers
- J. R. Allardyce Nicoll Drama Collection
- Nineteenth-Century Fiction
- John Howard Nodal Archive
- Marie Riefstahl Nordlinger Proust Collection
- North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society Archive
- North West Playwrights Archive
- North West Printing Collection
- Northern Baptist College Archive
- Northern Baptist College Printed Collection
- Jeff Nuttall Papers
O
- Dorman O’Gowan Papers
- Oldham Textile Employers' Association Archive
- Oldknow Papers
- Orford Papers
- Owen Owens and Son Archive
P
- Pali Manuscripts
- Martin Parr Photography Collection
- Parsi Manuscripts
- Partington Collection
- Arthur Samuel Peake Papers
- Persian Manuscripts
- Francesco Petrarch Printed Works
- Henry Pettitt Papers
- Phillipps Charters
- Photography Collection
- Mike Pickering Archive
- Margaret Pilkington Papers
- Pink Papers
- Pit Prop Theatre Company Archive
- Pitt Collection
- Sir Harry Platt Papers
- Pluscarden Charters
- Papers of Professor Marcia Pointon
- British Political Pamphlets
- Poll Book Collection
- Giovanni Pontiero Papers
- Ronald Preston Papers
- Private Press Collection
- Humphrey Procter-Gregg Archive
- Protestant Reformation Printed Works
R
- Thomas Raffles Book Collection
- Thomas Raffles Collection
- Railway Collections
- Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury Papers
- John Ernest Rattenbury Papers
- John Rattenbury Papers
- Stephen Raw Papers
- Rawson/Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers
- Eve Reymond Papers
- Dorothy Richardson Papers
- Michael Robbins London Collection
- Henry Roscoe Papers
- Frederick Rose Papers
- William Michael Rossetti Papers
- Henry Ling Roth Papers
- Roundell Muniments
- Peter Rowe Archive
- Roxburghe Club Collection
- Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester and the Northern Counties Archive
- John Ruskin Papers
- John Ruskin Printed Works
- Rylands and Sons Archive
- Rylands Charters
- Rylands Printed Collections
- Hymn Collection of John Rylands
- John Rylands Library Archive
- Madeleine Lucette Ryley Papers
S
- Frank Owen Salisbury Papers
- Samaritan Manuscripts
- Michael Schmidt Papers
- Arthur Schuster Papers
- Richard Scott Archive
- Sedbergh School Library Collection
- Seventeenth-Century Literary Publications
- Shackleton Collection
- William Shakespeare Printed Works
- Norman Shrapnel Archive
- John Geoffrey Sharps Papers
- William Arthur Shaw Manuscripts
- Pete Shelley Archive
- Simon Engineering Group Archive
- Heinrich Simon Papers
- George R. Sims Collection
- Edward Allatt Upton Sinclair Book Collection
- Jon Savage Situationist Collection
- Peter Slade Collection
- Smith Memorial Collection and Schunck Library
- Grafton Elliot Smith Papers
- Social Pamphlets
- Society of Medical Officers of Health, North Western Branch Archive
- South-East Asian Manuscripts
- Spanish Manuscripts
- Spencer Collection
- Edmund Spenser Printed Works
- Spielmann Collection
- Andy Spinoza Archive
- Howard Spring Book Collection
- Howard Spring Manuscripts
- Spring-Rice Collection
- Stanbrook Abbey Press Collection
- Stanley of Alderley Deeds and Papers
- Stapleton Manuscripts
- Bill Stephenson Photography Collection
- Wallace Stevens and the Cummington Press Collection
- Richard F. Stewart Book Collection
- Stirland Public Health Collection
- Marie Stopes and Birth Control Collection
- John Strachan Book Collection
- John Strachan Papers
- Walter Strachan Collection
- Raymond Streat Papers
- Street Literature Collection
- Sun Mill Archive
- Sutherland Collection
- Syriac Manuscripts
T
- Tabley Book Collection
- Tabley Muniments
- Alan Tabor Calligraphy Collection
- James Tait Papers
- Tanks Group Archive
- Torquato Tasso Printed Works
- Amable Tastu Papers
- Tatton of Wythenshawe Muniments
- Roger Taylor: Photographic Historian
- Tealdi Correspondence
- Corporate Archive of Granada Television
- Teltscher Collection
- Nigel Temple Book Collection
- Tobias Theodores Papers
- There is a light that never goes out
- Francis Thompson Collection
- Thomson-Byrom Collection
- Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts
- Tibetan Manuscripts
- Tout Family Archive
- Tregaskis Bindings Collections
- Alan Turing Collections
- Turkish Manuscripts
- Dame Mabel Tylecote Papers
- Dame Mabel Tylecote Printed Collection
- Tynan-Hinkson Book Collection
- Moses Tyson Papers
U
- Unitarian College Archives
- Unitarian College Printed Collection
- University of Manchester Archives
- University of Manchester Halls of Residence Archives
- University of Manchester Student Ephemera Collection
- University of Manchester Students' Union Archive
- University Printed Collections
- George Unwin Papers
- Sir Raymond Unwin Papers
- Urwick Library
- Alison Uttley Book Collection
- Alison Uttley Papers
V
- Eugène Vinaver Collection
- George H. Viner Bookplate Collection
- Elfrida Vipont Papers
- Eric Voegelin Book Collection
- Voyages and Travels Printed Works
W
- Wadsworth Manuscripts
- Warburton of Arley Muniments and Related Collections
- Claude Wilson Wardlaw Papers
- Mark Warner Photography Collection
- Wedgwood Correspondence
- Dennis and Joan Welland Papers
- Dennis Welland, Wilfred Owen Book Collection
- Wesley Collection (Rylands)
- Wesley Family papers (Methodist Collections)
- Charles Wesley Family Library
- Charles Wesley Papers
- Charles White Club Archive
- Walt Whitman Book Collection
- Walt Whitman Manuscript Collections
- Whitworth Art Gallery Archive
- Wickstead Papers
- R. H. Wilenski Papers
- John T. Wilkinson Book Collection
- John Wilkinson Papers
- William Temple Foundation Archives
- W. M. Wills Home Front Diaries
- Wilmslow Quaker Collection
- Anthony Wilson Archive
- Papers of D. A. Wilson
- Ernest Wilson Papers
- H. J. Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection
- Orde Wingate Collections
- Thomas J. Wise Printed Works
- Women in Theology Group Archive
- Women's Suffrage Movement Archives
- Wood Street Mission Archive
- James Woolley, Sons and Co. Ltd Archive
- Sir Hubert Worthington Papers