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- 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH, England, UK
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- There are two Special Collections Reading Rooms. One is located at The John Rylands Library on Deansgate in the city centre. The other is at the Main Library on the Oxford Road campus.
- Opening Hours
- John Rylands Research Institute and Library Monday to Saturday, 10-5pm Thursdays 10-7pm
- Main University Library Monday to Friday, 10-5 pm
- For further information, please see our website.
- Closing Hours
- Easter, Christmas to New year, Bank holidays
- Access Information
- Researchers can book appointments to access material in the Special Collections Reading Rooms. Please note that collections may be held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, the Main Library or the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE (Race Archives and Community Engagement) Centre.
- We also offer hour long digital appointments where you can view some of our Special Collections via a Zoom call.
- To book an in person or online appointment, please use our booking request form https://forms.library.manchester.ac.uk/public/form/5ca60337f85e57c3bbc9e522. If you have any trouble with this form, please email the reading room team at: uml.special-collections@manchester.ac.uk.
- Please be aware that access restrictions may apply.
- Limited spaces are available, and you must book a place in advance before coming to the reading room. We ask for three days' notice to view most items, except for those requiring curatorial approval or delivery from off-site which may take longer. A member of staff will check the status of the material and confirm the date and location of your appointment.
- Advance Orders
- It is essential to contact us in advance of any visit. We can then retrieve the materials you want before you arrive. This is particularly important on your first visit.
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- Archival and Other Holdings
- The University of Manchester Library holds one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. Both The John Rylands Library and Victoria University of Manchester Library had built up outstanding Special Collections. After their merger in 1972, these collections were concentrated in the magnificent Deansgate Building of The John Rylands Library, in the centre of Manchester.
- The printed collections encompass almost all the landmarks of printing through five centuries: magnificent illustrated books, examples of fine printing, landmark works in typography, key historical texts and exquisite bookbindings.
- We hold over 4,000 incunables, including the largest collection of Aldines in the world and the second largest collection of works printed by Caxton.
- The collections cover a wide range of subjects: theology and philosophy; literature, drama and music; art and archaeology; science and medicine; economic, social, political and military history; travel and exploration. The vast majority of the Special Collections printed books are recorded in our online printed-book catalogue.
- The Library's manuscript collections cover more than fifty languages, including all the major European and Middle Eastern languages, and numerous Far Eastern ones. They span five millennia, and are written on virtually every medium ever employed. The subject range is vast, encompassing literary, historical, antiquarian, genealogical, biblical, devotional, ritualistic, medical, scientific, legal and administrative texts.
- The Library holds several hundred archives of companies, business associations, trade unions, charities, social organizations and religious institutions, as well as landed families.
- Particular strengths include Nonconformist archives (especially of Methodism); archives of recent and contemporary literature and drama; the archives of the University of Manchester; and the papers of individual scientists and academics.
- Most Special Collections are held at The John Rylands Library.
- Other collections are held at the Main Library on the Oxford Road campus. These include the archives of the University of Manchester, Christian Brethren Archives, many scientific and medical archives, and post-1800 medical books.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Annie Horniman Papers
- The Bible in Basic English Collection
- The Bill Beswick Papers
- The Clavis or Key to Unlock the Mysteries of Magick of Rabby Solomon
- The David Wright Collection of Norman Nicholson Papers
- The Diary of Elizabeth Hitchcock
- The Early Preachers Collection
- The Edward Peacock Papers
- The Fielden papers
- The Fletcher-Tooth Collection
- The Fletcher-Tooth Collection, Correspondence
- The Frank Owen Salisbury Papers: collection-level description
- The Fry Collection relating to Benjamin Wills Newton, S.P. Tregelles, F.W. Wyatt and A.C. Fry
- The George Gissing Collection
- The George R. Sims Collection
- The Hayloft Press Archive
- The Hugh Bourne Papers
- The John Dalton Manuscripts
- The Languishing Saint's Request
- The Letters of William Seward
- The Manchester Medical Collection: Sections 3-16
- The Manchester Medical Collection: Collection-level Description
- The Matt Simpson Collection of Norman Nicholson Papers
- The Michael Kennedy Collection
- The Military Journal of G.H.Gough
- The Motions, Pleadings, and Proceedings in the Courts of Westminster
- The Mountaineers, A play in three acts
- The Oldknow Papers
- The Orford Papers
- The Papers of Clapton Hall
- The Papers of Cross Road Hall, Wimbledon
- The Papers of Dr Adam Clarke
- The Papers of Dr Thomas Coke
- The Papers of Gerald West
- The Papers of Joseph Benson
- The Papers of Sydney John Hickson
- The Papers of the Rattenbury Family
- The Papers of the Rev. Dr Rupert E. Davies
- The Personal Papers of Samuel Bardsley: Correspondence and Diaries
- The Peter Slade Collection
- The Reginald Cordingley Papers
- The Richard Goulden Collection
- The Robert Crozier Collection
- The Royalists' Letany; Second Part
- The Spielmann Collection
- The Strines Journal
- The Tabley Muniments
- The Tom Kelly Collection of Norman Nicholson Letters
- The Victor Hugo Collection
- The Victoria Institute Archive
- The Walter Strachan Collection
- The Wesley Family Papers
- The Wesley Guild Manuscript Collection
- The William Clowes Papers
- A History of the Parish of Stillingfleet
- A Journey through England and Wales
- A Voyage for Whaling and Discovery round Cape Horn into the Pacific Oceans
- Abecedario Pittorico, or the Virtuoso's Companion
- Abraham Farrar, Transcripts Notebook
- Abstract of Plans for the Government of India
- Account Book for Cross Street Chapel, Manchester
- Account Book of Joseph Gifford
- Accounting Standards Committee Archive
- Accounts and Journal of George Heywood
- Accounts of Brentford Estates
- Accounts of the Bishop of Winchester
- Additional Correspondence of John Nelson Darby
- Admiralty Computing Service Collection
- Alan Turing Collection
- Alan Turing Papers (Additional)
- Album Amicorum of Richard Burdekin of York
- Album of Correspondence and Photographs of Henry Dresser, Ornithologist
- Alexander and Irene Ewing Papers
- Alfred Darbyshire Collection
- Alison Uttley Papers
- Alphabet of Arms
- Althorp-Spencer Bibliographical Letters and Papers
- Amable Tastu Collection
- American National Standards Insititute: X3J3 Fortran Committee
- Andrew D. Booth Collection
- Archive of Carcanet Press - Administrative Papers
- Archive of Carcanet Press - Editorial Papers
- Archive of Dalton-Ellis Hall
- Archive of Hodgson, Robinson & Company
- Archive of Society of Medical Officers of Health, North Western Branch
- Archive of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners
- Archive of the Association of Certifying Factory Surgeons
- Archive of the Charles White Club
- Archive of the Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian)
- Archive of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance
- Archive of the Manchester and District Society of Anaesthetists
- Archive of the Manchester and Salford College for Women
- Archive of the Manchester branch of the Association of University Teachers
- Archive of the Manchester Joint Research Council
- Archive of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution
- Archive of the Manchester Medical Society
- Archive of the Manchester Odontological Society
- Archive of the Manchester Paediatric Club
- Archive of the Manchester Philological Club
- Archive of the Manchester Surgical Society
- Archive of the Manchester Technology Association
- Archive of the Manchester University Engineering Society
- Archive of the Manchester University Settlement
- Archive of the National Medical Union, Manchester branch
- Archive of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society
- Archive of the Oldham Textile Employers' Association
- Archive of the Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners' Provincial Association of Bolton and Surrounding Districts
- Archive of the Parliamentary Committee for Women's Suffrage
- Archive of the Pathological Society of Manchester
- Archive of the Royal Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester and the Northern Counties
- Archive of the Senate of the University of Manchester
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Department of Zoology
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Theology
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Medicine
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Department of Botany
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Law
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Department of Extra-Mural Studies and Centre for Continuing Education
- Archive of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Students Union
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Technology
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Arts
- Archive of the University of Manchester Adviser to Women Students
- Archive of the University of Manchester Music Club
- Archive of the University of Manchester, Faculty of Music
- Archive of the University of Manchester Faculty and Department of Education and related bodies
- Archives of James Woolley, Sons & Co. Ltd.
- Archives of the Sessional Committees of Senate and Council and Joint Committees of the Victoria University of Manchester
- Arderne Deeds
- Armorial
- Armorial
- Armorial
- Armorial
- Armorial of Knights During Edward II's Reign
- Arthur Milnes Marshall Papers
- Ashburne Hall Archive
- Ashburnham Wycliffe Collection
- Ashworth Cross Family Papers
- Astrological Chronology
- Auditing Practices Committee Archive
- Autobiography of a cavalryman in the Scots Greys
- Autobiography of Arthur Henry Gibson, New Zealander
- Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
- Autograph Album from the Royal Jubilee Exhibition in Manchester
- Autograph Letters
- Autograph Letters Collection
- Autograph manuscript of John Armitage's History of Brazil
- Autographs of the King's Judges and other leading Commonwealth men
- B.R. Faunthorpe Papers relating to Sir Joseph Whitworth
- Bagshawe Family Muniments
- Barlow Family Genealogical Papers
- Barnard Street Church Archive
- Basil Dean Archive
- Bearwood Chapel Archive
- Beaumont Charters
- Bellot Papers relating to the Bradshaw Family
- Bills from Manchester Manufacturers
- Bolton Mechanics Document Book
- Booth Family Genealogies
- Bostock Hall, Chester: Account Book
- Botfield Papers
- Bowring Papers
- Brethren Lantern Slides
- Brethren Photograph Collection
- Bright Hall Assembly Eccles Archive
- British Armorial
- British Armorials
- Brut Chronicle (1346 Continuation)
- Brut Chronicle (1413 Continuation)
- Bryan Higman Papers
- Burney Family Manuscripts Collection
- Business Correspondence of Pietro Tealdi
- C.F. Sixsmith Collection of Miscellanea
- C.F. Sixsmith Collection of Printed and Photographic Material
- C.F. Sixsmith Collection of Traubel Correspondence
- C.F. Sixsmith Edward Carpenter Collection
- C.F. Sixsmith Walt Whitman Collection
- Calligraphic Manuscript of The Breastplate of Saint Patrick
- Calligraphic Manuscripts of Hesba Dora Webb
- Canon Jackson's Copy of Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections
- Canterbury Tales Fragment
- Cardiff and South Wales Bible Ministry Conferences Collection
- Case Papers concerning Tinkler Ducket
- Catalogue of Alnwick Parochial Library
- Catalogue of English Gentry
- Catalogue of English Nobility and Royal Officials
- Catalogue of Poulton-le-Fylde Parochial Library
- Catalogue of St Mary's Nantwich Parochial Library
- Catalogue of the Books Printed Upon Vellum in the John Rylands Library, Manchester
- Catalogue of the John Lindsay Coin Collection
- Catalogue of the Library at Toft Hall, Cheshire
- Catalogue of the Library of George Cumberland
- Catalogue of the Sunderland Library
- Catalogues of the Spencer Library
- Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Archive
- Charles O'Neill Medical Club Archive
- Charles Wesley Papers
- Charles Wesley, Volume of Shorthand Hymns
- Charlotte Brontë Letter
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other works
- Cheshire Estate Book
- Cheshire Pedigrees
- Christopher Feake: Sermons
- Church of God in Belfast Archive
- Church Wardens Accounts: Frodsham, Cheshire
- Clayton and Morris Papers
- Clowes Deeds
- Collation of the Printed Mainz Psalter of 1457
- Collection of Engravings of Portraits of Painters
- Collection of Medical Recipes, Charms, etc.
- Collections for a History of the Stafford Family
- Committee for Penicillin Synthesis Collection
- Commonplace Book
- Commonplace Book of Abraham Broomhead
- Commonplace Book of Robert Hassall
- Commonplace Book of Thomas Worthington
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Collection
- Computers in Survey Analysis Collection
- Connor Missionary Manuscripts
- Convocation of the Victoria University and the Victoria University of Manchester Archive
- Cooper Collection of Thomas Carlyle Letters
- Copies of the Diaries of William G. Sloan
- Copinger-Hartland Manuscripts Collection
- Copy Letterbook of Thomas Ashton and Sons
- Copy of John Pringle's Survey of Roads in the Carnatic
- Cornish-English Vocabulary
- Cornwall-Legh Muniments
- Correspondence and Papers of Sir James Leith
- Correspondence between Sir Syed Maratib Ali and Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck
- Correspondence of John Micklethwaite
- Correspondence of Morgan Philips Price, 1941-1964
- Correspondence of Rev. Henry Raikes
- Correspondence of Rev. Philip Doddridge
- Correspondence of Sir William Henry Pringle
- Correspondence of Theodorico Pietrocala Rossetti and Piero Guicciardini
- Cotton and Allied Textile Industrial Training Board Collection
- Council of Principals of Schools for the Deaf Archive
- Court Book for the Manor of Kirkby Ireleth, Lancashire
- Court rolls of Barton Manor, Lancashire
- Crawford Genealogical Miscellany
- Crawford Historical Miscellany
- Crawford House of Lords Papers
- Critical Quarterly Archive
- Crutchley Muniments
- Dale Papers
- Daniel Dougal First World War Diaries
- Darbyshire Heraldic Collection
- Dave Cunliffe Collection
- David Forbes' Analysis Books
- David Garrick: Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades
- David Winstanley Notebook
- Davy's Armory of Suffolk and Gipps'Antiquitates Suffolcienses
- Delia Derbyshire Day Archive
- Derek Tulloch Papers
- Descriptions of the Canary Islands and of the Azores
- Diary of William Edward Rawlinson
- Dick Starling Collection
- dom sylvester houédard Archive
- Donald Cardwell Papers
- Donat Family Letters
- Dorothy Davison Sketches
- Dorothy Richardson Papers
- Douglas Rayner Hartree Collection
- Durward Cruickshank Papers
- Early Methodist Personal Papers: Volume 1: (Thomas Adam - Thomas Barber)
- Echoes of Service Archive
- Edgar Morton Archive
- Editorial Correspondence of C.P. Scott
- Edward Carpenter Papers and Labour Movement Correspondence
- Edward Fiddes Papers
- Edward Johnston's Calligraphic Testimonial to Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
- Egerton of Tatton Muniments
- Eleazer Gidney Papers
- Election Expenses of Thomas Egerton
- Elizabeth Gaskell Manuscript Collection
- Elizabeth I's New Year's Gifts of 1559
- Elizabeth Wilson Collection
- Ellis Llwyd Jones Hall Archive
- Ely Devons Papers
- English Armorial
- English Armorial by John Philipot, Somerset Herald
- English Armorial by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald
- English Theological Manuscript
- Engravers' Trade Unions Archive
- Enriqueta Augustina Rylands: Freedom of the City of Manchester
- Epicycloidal Cutting Frame
- Eric John Papers
- Eric Sunderland Papers
- Eugène Vinaver Papers relating to Dikran Garabedian
- Eva Hibbert Collection
- Exchequer Warrants (17th Century)
- Fairfax Murray Papers
- Fifteenth-Century Sermons Collection
- Finney of Fulshaw Deeds
- Florence Hunter Collection
- Florence Nightingale Letters to Thomas Worthington
- Fordyce Gospel Hall Archive
- Forme of Cury
- Francis Robert Raines Papers
- Francis Walshe, Michael Polanyi Collection
- Frank Sumner Papers
- Frederic Madden Collection
- Frederick Crace-Calvert Correspondence
- Frederick Tatford Papers
- Freud Family Papers
- G. A. G. Mitchell Papers
- G.V. Wigram Correspondence
- Gaelic Songs
- Gaskell Family Papers
- General Thomas Perronet Thompson Letters
- Geoffrey Jefferson Case Notes
- Geographical Association, Manchester Branch archive
- George Cheetham and Sons Archive
- George Daniels papers
- George Dunlop Papers relating to the Chindit Campaigns
- George Dunn Brut Chronicles
- George Müller Collection
- George Rigby Collection
- Gilbert White Correspondence
- Glebe Christian Fellowship
- Glossary of South Lancashire Dialect
- Gordon Scarrott Papers
- Great War Letters of Arthur Powell
- Greater Manchester Textile Mills Survey Archive
- Grey (Stamford) of Dunham Massey Papers
- Guardian Newspaper European Foreign Correspondence
- Gurney Miscellanea I
- Gurney Miscellanea II
- H S Raper Papers
- Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown
- Hankinson Antiquarian Notes and Transcriptions
- Harold Roberts Papers
- Harold Rowdon Papers
- Harringtons of Exton Heraldic Family Tree
- Harry Street Papers
- Haselgrove-Leech Collection
- Heald Family Papers
- Henry Baker Correspondence
- Henry Brierley Collection
- Henry Ling Roth Papers
- Henry Lipson Papers
- Henry Maule's Notes on the Peerage of Scotland
- Henry Roscoe Papers: Additional
- Herbert Hulme Cheshire History Collection
- Hester Adrian Research Centre Collection
- Hibbert-Ware Papers
- Historical Essays on the Magna Carta
- History of Computing Collection: Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Meteorological Office Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Technical Manuals Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Admiralty Research Laboratory Collection
- History of Computing Collection: United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Collection
- History of Computing Collection: National Physical Laboratory Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Bibliographies
- History of Computing Collection: Ferranti Ltd Collection
- History of Computing Collection: English Electric Company Limited Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Trade Catalogue Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Scientific Computing Service Ltd
- History of Computing Collection: Armament Research Establishment Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Ministry of Supply Collection
- History of Computing Collection: University of London Institute of Computer Science Collection
- History of Computing Collection: International Computers Ltd (ICL) Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company Ltd: Working Papers and Reports
- History of Computing Collection: The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Miscellaneous Publications
- History of Computing Collection: Weapons Research Establishment (Australia) Collection
- History of Computing Collection: Imperial College of Science and Technology Collection
- History of the Phoolkian Family
- Holman Hunt Manuscripts
- Home Workers Fund Archive
- Horace Lamb Notebooks
- Hugh Hunt Papers: Collection-level Description
- Hulme Hall Archive
- Humphrey Chetham Papers
- ICI Dyestuffs Division and predecessor companies archive
- Illuminated Manuscript of Dickens'A Christmas Carol
- Index to General Conway's Pamphlet Collection
- Index to Hymn Melodies
- Index to the Works of Joanna Southcott
- Institute for Development Policy and Management Archive
- J W Aldred Boer War diary
- J.W. Biederman's Letter-Book
- Jack Keiser Papers
- Jackson family papers
- James Bone correspondence
- James Prescott Joule Manuscripts
- James Renwick Collection
- Jevons Family Papers
- Joan and John Travis Papers
- Jodrell Bank Observatory Archive
- Jodrell Muniments
- John Birch Commonplace Book
- John Caley's Augmentation Office Indexes
- John Charles Mason Collection of East India Company Papers
- John Charnley/William Waugh Collection
- John Frederick Wilkinson Papers
- John Graham Papers
- John Howard Nodal Archive
- John Hunter Letter
- John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes
- John Lydgate, The Siege of Troy
- John Nelson Darby Letterbook
- John Radcliffe: Notes on Family Crests and Mottoes
- John Rushton's Notes on Nonconformist Churches and Chapels
- John Ruskin Papers
- John Smith Roskell Papers
- John Stopford Papers
- John Webster Bride Papers
- Joseph Green Collection of Medieval Religious Manuscripts
- Joseph Higginson: Illuminated Addresses
- Joseph Mayer Collection
- Journal of John Walsh's Visit to France in 1772
- Journal of Parliamentary Speeches on the Petition of Right in 1628
- Journal of Thomas Crewe Dod
- Journal of William Johns, Unitarian Minister and Author
- Juvenile Papers of Delia Derbyshire
- Kanarese Conference Collection
- Kelly Irish Manuscripts in English
- Kents Road Papers
- L.P. Hartley Papers
- Lady Mary Booth's 'La Catechisme de l'Eglise Expliqué'
- Lady Mary Booth's Plant Specimen Book
- Lancashire and Cheshire Letters of Roman Catholics
- Lancashire Legal Commonplace Book
- Langdale Hall Archive
- Later Version Wycliffe Bible
- Later Version Wycliffe Psalms
- Lecture: Twenty-Five Years of Theological Study
- Lectures of Daniel Dougal
- Lectures on Animal Œconomy by John Allen
- Legal Formulary of Edward Bucknall
- Leigh Family Deeds
- LEO Computers Collection
- LEO Computers Photographic Collection
- LEO computers: Ernest Lenaerts Papers
- Leonard Behrens Papers: Collection-level Description
- Letterbook of Sir Thomas Cholmondeley, Sheriff of Cheshire
- Letters and Manuscripts of Charles Dickens
- Letters from John Heath-Stubbs to Peter McNair
- Letters from John Lee to John Crossley Concerning Measures Against a Possible French Invasion
- Letters from John Marriott to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe
- Letters from Richard Cobden
- Letters from Sir Joseph Whitworth to Sir James Emerson Tennent
- Letters of Margaret Compton, Marchioness of Northampton
- Lewis Court Bible Christian Collection
- Lewis Namier Papers
- Leycester Ship Logbooks Collection
- Li Yuan-Chia Archive
- Libelle of English Policy
- List of Records in the Tower of London
- London Village Workers additional
- London Village Workers Collection
- Longford Hall Library Catalogue
- Louis Siebold Lecture on Atomic Theory
- Macclesfield Copper Company, Minute Book
- Mainwaring Court Book for the Manors of Baddiley and Peover
- Malcolm Hay Papers relating to Orde Wingate
- Manchester Airport plc, Second Runway Inquiry Archive
- Manchester Art Gallery: Correspondence
- Manchester Business School Archive
- Manchester Cathedral Misericords
- Manchester Churchwarden Accounts
- Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive
- Manchester Geographical Society Archive
- Manchester Medical Collection: Publications Series H-Q
- Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files H-Q
- Manchester Medical Collection: Publications Series A-G
- Manchester Medical Collection: Publications Series R-Z
- Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files A-G
- Manchester Medical Collection: Biographical Files R-Z
- Manchester Men's League for Women's Suffrage Archive
- Manchester Museum Archive
- Manchester Pharmaceutical Association Archive
- Manchester Radium Collection
- Manchester School of Management Archive
- Manchester Society of Architects Archive
- Manchester State-Church Discussion
- Manchester Transvaal Committee Archive
- Manchester University Geographical Society Archive
- Manchester Working Men's College Archive
- Manual on Shorthand
- Manuscript Itinerary of Henry III of England
- Manuscript of Hardy's A Tragedy of Two Ambitions
- Manuscript of Hilaire Belloc's The Unpleasant Room
- Marlborough Brut Chronicle (1377 Continuation)
- Mary Hamilton Papers
- Mathematical and Astronomical Notes of Richard Tate
- Maurice Powicke Papers
- Medical Illustrations of Dorothy Davison
- Medical Manuscripts Collection
- Meditations on the Life of Christ and other 15th-century manuscripts
- Melville Papers
- Memorial Volume of G.W. Wood, MP
- Merrion Hall Dublin Collection
- Methodist Division of Education and Youth
- Metrical Bible
- Miles Irving Papers
- Military Papers of Major-General Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan
- Minute Book and Documents, Illustrative of the Dedham (Essex) Classis, 1582-89
- Minute Books of the Excavation Committee of the Manchester Classical Association
- Mirror of the Life of Christ
- Miscellaneous Autograph Collection II
- Miscellaneous Autograph Collection I
- Miscellaneous Autograph Letters
- Miscellaneous Literary and Political Letters Collection
- Mitchley Hill Chapel Records
- Mitford-Talfourd Correspondence
- Moberly Hall Collection
- Mont Follick Papers
- Monumental Inscriptions from Salisbury Cathedral
- Moravian Church Manuscripts
- Mordaunt Letter-Book
- Mount Stuart Collection
- Mrs Betsy Westhead's Receipt Book
- Namier Political Manuscripts Collection
- Nasmyth, Wilson and Co. Locomotive Specification Book
- National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Archive
- Neil Dickson Collection
- Neild Family Papers
- News letters to Sir William Temple and others
- Nicholas Papers
- Nicholls Local History Collection
- Nicholson Papers
- Niels Vang Collection
- Norfolk Poll Book
- North of England Ophthalmological Society Archive
- North Sankuru Mission Archive
- North West Playwrights Archive
- Northampton Annuity Tables
- Notebooks of Herbert Walter Nunn
- Notes and Transcriptions of Stockport Parish Registers
- Notes of Sermons by William Gaskell and other Unitarian ministers
- Notes on Clairvoyantes who have Read in Nutshells
- Notes on Lancashire Cotton Mills
- Notes on Magic
- Notes on the Burton Family of Leicestershire
- Oliver Madox Brown: Novels and Stories
- Theological Discourses by John Lewis
- Theological Notebooks of Arthur Samuel Peake
- Theological Treatises by Arthur Hildersham
- On Urines
- Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Standardized Archives
- Order of the Garter Manuscript
- Owen Owens and Son Archive
- Owens College Archive
- Owens Park Tutors Committee minutes
- P.W. Petter Collection
- Pain Book for Thornthwaite, Westmorland
- Papers from the Norman Nicholson Book Collection
- Papers of A.B. Railton
- Papers of Alan Vyvyan Symons
- Papers of Alfred Cyril Ewing
- Papers of Allan Monkhouse
- Papers of Allen Freer
- Papers of and relating to George Unwin
- Papers of and relating to John Gray
- Papers of and relating to Marc André Raffalovich
- Papers of and relating to Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
- Papers of and relating to Sir Geoffrey Jefferson
- Papers of Brian Cox
- Papers of C.E. Montague
- Papers of Claude Wilson Wardlaw
- Papers of David Arkell
- Papers of Dawson Jackson and Papers relating to Dawson Jackson and Joan Hart
- Papers of Delia Derbyshire
- Papers of Dennis and Joan Welland
- Papers of Derek Guttery
- Papers of Donald Elms Core
- Papers of Doreen Cornthwaite relating to Norman Nicholson
- Papers of Dr Dietrich G. Prinz
- Papers of E.H. Broadbent
- Papers of Edward Augustus Freeman
- Papers of Edward Petter
- Papers of Elaine Feinstein
- Papers of Elim Gospel Hall
- Papers of F.F. Bruce
- Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck
- Papers of Frederick Rose
- Papers of Geoffrey Taylor Bull
- Papers of George Goring Campion
- Papers of George Norman Burkhardt
- Papers of Giovanni Pontiero
- Papers of Gordon W. Simmonds
- Papers of Grevel Lindop
- Papers of Handley Bird
- Papers of Harold Blundell (George Bellairs)
- Papers of Heinrich Simon
- Papers of Henry Pettitt
- Papers of Herbert Lomas
- Papers of Ian Isherwood
- Papers of J.B. Watson
- Papers of J.G. Sharps
- Papers of James Maurice Wilson
- Papers of James Tait
- Papers of John B. Potts
- Papers of John Heath Stubbs
- Papers of John Nelson Darby
- Papers of John Peter Smith
- Papers of John Turner Walton Newbold: Collection-level Description
- Papers of Joy Guy
- Papers of Katharine Tynan and Pamela Hinkson
- Papers of Kingsley Melling
- Papers of Leonard Sheldrake
- Papers of Leslie Theodore Hilliard
- Papers of Madeleine Lucette Ryley
- Papers of Margaret Collin
- Papers of Margaret Grace Cutler
- Papers of Margaret Pilkington
- Papers of Mark Hovell
- Papers of Mary Bateson
- Papers of Max Gluckman
- Papers of McConnel & Kennedy and McConnel & Co.
- Papers of Norman Nicholson
- Papers of Open Brethren Assembly, Woolpit, Suffolk
- Papers of Professor Marcia Pointon
- Papers of Professor Peter Walter Rowe
- Papers of R.H. Wilenski
- Papers of Robert Donat
- Papers of Robert Rendall
- Papers of Robert Salmon Hutton
- Papers of Rodney Harris
- Papers of Ronald Epey Lane
- Papers of Sir Arthur Schuster
- Papers of Sir Harry Platt
- Papers of Sir Henry Roscoe
- Papers of Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth
- Papers of Sir Raymond Streat: Collection-level Description
- Papers of Sir William Boyd Dawkins
- Papers of Southcroft Hall, Streatham
- Papers of the Agecroft Rowing Club
- Papers of the Christian Brethren Research Fellowship
- Papers of the Gospel Literature Service
- Papers of the Hudson Watt Family
- Papers of the Jamison Family
- Papers of the Manchester Reform Club
- Papers of the Nilgiri Prayer Fellowship
- Papers of Thomas Coglan Horsfall
- Papers of Thomas Frederick Tout
- Papers of Tony Dyson and Cliff Tucker
- Papers of Vivian Bowden, Lord Bowden of Chesterfield
- Papers of W.M. Christy & Sons Ltd
- Papers of William Stirling
- Papers on the Revenue of the Future James II as Duke of York
- Papers relating to Cheshire Board of Health and the Aston family of Cheshire
- Papers Relating to Dorothy Isaac
- Papers Relating to Harold St.John
- Papers relating to J.W. Wallace and the Bolton Whitman Fellowship
- Papers Relating to Ransome Wallace Cooper and "Gospel to Britain's Guests"
- Papers relating to the Lancashire Cotton Industry
- Papers relating to the Manchester Guardian and the First World War
- Papers relating to the Peninsular War, Portugal
- Papers relating to The Twentieth Century New Testament
- Papers relating to Wallace Stevens and the Cummington Press
- Parkside Spinning Company Archive
- Parliamentary Proceedings
- Partnership (UK) Ltd Archive
- Paternoster Press Papers
- Pedigree and Grant of Arms of Charles Dauntesey Langley Greenhalgh
- Pedigrees of Families of Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire
- Percy Society Minute Books
- Peter Mead Papers
- Peter Wexler Papers
- Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book
- Phillipps Charters
- Phillipps Collection of East India Company Papers
- Phillipps Manuscripts Collection on Anglo-Ottoman Trade
- Phillipps Treasury Records
- Pit Prop Theatre Company Archive
- Pitt Collection
- Plantation Records from Dominica, British West Indies
- Playscript: The Man of Pleasure
- Pluscarden Charters
- Poems and Translations of Francis Dukinfield Astley
- Poems by George Crabbe
- Poems of Rev. Thomas Harrison Collinson
- Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
- Precedency Book
- Pricke of Conscience Manuscripts Collection
- Prideaux Papers
- Proceedings in Legal Cases
- Process of þe Passion; The Gospel of Nicodemus
- Professor J.G. Greenwood: Illuminated Address
- Queen Edith Chapel Collection
- Railway Accidents Book
- Railway Share Subscription Contracts
- Ramsay MacDonald Papers
- Ramsey Parish Workhouse Bills and Receipts
- Rawson / Wilson Anti-Slavery Papers
- Raymond English Anti-Slavery Collection
- Recipe Book
- Recipe Book of John Southam of Ashton under Lyne
- Recipe Book of Mary Bennet
- Records of Henshaw's Society for the Blind
- Records of the Ashton Textile Employers' Association
- Records of the Bibliographical Society of Lancashire
- Records of the Knutsford District of Foresters Friendly Society and Predecessor Bodies
- Records of the Medici Family of Florence
- Reddell Armorial
- Remarks on Collier's Ecclesiastical History
- Richard Lanceter's Theological Manuscripts
- Robert Adamson Papers
- Robert Bakewell, An Introduction to Geology
- Robert Bruce Cotton Miscellany
- Robert Dunlop Papers
- Robert James Wilding Collection
- Robin Ridgway Papers
- Roger Cotes and William Whiston, Lectures and Experiments
- Roger Payne Papers
- Royal Radar Establishment Collection
- Rural and Other Poems of Mary Chadwick
- Rylands and Sons Archive
- Rylands Charters
- Salford Hundred Lay Subsidy Roll of 1641
- Sam Gamble Scholarships Records
- Samuel Alexander Papers
- Samuel Finer Papers: Collection-level Description
- Samuel Hird Papers
- Scotland: Presbyterianism
- Scottish Armorial Bearings
- Scrapbook: Symbols and Sacred Emblems
- Sequestration Committee Receipts: Wirral Hundred
- Sermons of Philip Henry
- Sermons of Thomas Lambarde
- Sermons of William Benn
- Shirley Lerner Papers
- Shorthand New Testament
- Sir Henry Irving's Faust Prompt Book
- Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy Papers
- Songs of Allan Ramsay
- South Trafford Postgraduate Medical Centre Archive
- Spencer Manuscript: Notes and Statistics on the Slave Trade
- Spring-Rice Collection
- St Anselm Hall Archive
- Stanley Family Papers
- Stephen Joseph Papers
- Stirland Public Health Collection
- Students' Lecture Notes Collection
- Study Group on Computers in Survey Analysis Collection
- Subscription List for Brydson's Order of the Peerage
- Sun Mill Archive
- Supplementary Papers of John Nelson Darby
- Survey of Lancashire Estates Belonging to Edward Chetham of Castleton
- Sutcliffe Papers
- Sydney Alexander Henry papers: a collection-level description
- Sydney Chapman, "Some memories and reflections"
- Sylvia Guthrie Papers
- TANKS Group Archive
- Tatton of Wythenshawe Muniments
- Temperance Movement Autograph Collection
- Thomas Alcock, Zoology Lectures
- Thomas Carlyle Letters to John Ruskin
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin Collection
- Thomas Helsby Papers Relating to Cheshire
- Thomas Hope, Lectures on Chemistry
- Thomas Legge Papers
- Thomas Raffles Collection
- Thomas Walker's Book of Miscellanies
- Thomas Willan papers
- Thomson-Byrom Collection
- Thornely Papers
- Thrale-Piozzi Manuscripts
- Thursfield-Smith Wesleyan Collection
- Tobias Theodores Papers
- Tom Kilburn Papers
- Tomlynson Brut Chronicle (1415 Continuation)
- Town Book of Newton by Daresbury
- Towneley Arms and Seals
- Towneley Manuscripts Collection
- Townshend Papers
- Tract Against Tithes
- Transcript of an Early Version of Wyclif's New Testament
- Transcript of Gressingham Township Accounts, 1709-1781
- Transcript of Henrick Niclaes's Terra Pacis
- Transcript of James Henry Lewis's Guide to Shorthand
- Transcript of John Wesley's Collection of Psalms and Hymns
- Transcript of Sir Richard Gipps'Antiquitates Suffolcienses
- Transcript of the Charter of the City of Gloucester
- Transcript of The Chronicles of Scotland
- Transcript of the Council Minute Book for the Barbados Colony
- Transcription of The Guide of Honour
- Transcripts of Correspondence between George III and William Pitt
- Translation of Socrates Scholasticus
- Travel Journal of Rev. John Warner
- Treatise on Arabic Numerals
- Treatise on Magic
- Treatise on Thorough Base
- Treatises on Manorial Law
- Typescript Thesis on The Oxford Movement in a Manchester Parish
- Typescript: Miscellaneous Works of Colin Lindsay
- U.M.I.S.T. and predecessor bodies Publications Collection: Newspapers, Magazines and Newsletters
- UMIST Athletic Union Archive
- UMIST Cuttings Collection
- UMIST Department of Building Archive
- UMIST Department of Computation Archive
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- UMIST Governing Bodies Archive
- UMIST Honorary Awards Collection
- UMIST Library Archive
- UMIST Official Publications Collection
- UMIST Prospectuses Collection
- UMIST, Department of Languages and Linguistics archive
- UMIST, Principal's Archive
- Unitarian College Collection
- Unitarian Papers of Rev. J. Arthur Pearson
- Unitarian Van Mission
- University Day Nursery Collection
- University of Manchester Architecture & Planning Students Society Archive
- University of Manchester Assembly Archive
- University of Manchester Benefactions Registers
- University of Manchester Biological Society Archive
- University of Manchester Bursar's Archive
- University of Manchester Careers Service Archive
- University of Manchester Cuttings Collection
- University of Manchester Department of Computer Science Archive
- University of Manchester Department of Computer Science Collection
- University of Manchester Department of Computer Science (additional)
- University of Manchester Exam Papers Collection
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- University of Manchester Library Archive: Collection-level Description
- University of Manchester Literary Society Minute Book
- University of Manchester Official Publications Collection
- University of Manchester Postgraduate Society Archive
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- University of Manchester Registrar's Archive
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- Verse Miscellany
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- W O Henderson Papers
- W. and J. Galloway Letter Books
- W.D. Pink's Research Papers on Members of Parliament
- W.P. Crozier Papers
- W.P. Crozier's Confidential Foreign Affairs Correspondence
- Wadsworth Manuscripts
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- Wedanayaga Sastry: Certificates and Testimonials
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- Westby Family Pedigree
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- William Warren Vernon's Dante Collection
- William Windham Farr Letters
- Willoughby Legal Manuscripts
- Wood Street Mission Archive
- World Refugee Year Collection
- Wycliffe Gospels
- Wycliffe Old Testament
- Zdenĕk Kopal Papers