A collection of miscellaneous and small accessions of manuscripts and papers received by the University since the establishment of the University College of North Wales in 1884. The collection is an artificial assemblage of documents that has been acquired by gift, purchase or in some cases deposited.
In some instances, collections have been received at different times from the same source and are, as a result, not numbered or grouped together.
The items within the collection are bound together by one common factor - their relevance to the history, people and topography of North Wales. However, their subject areas are very wide-ranging and are of national as well as local historical interest.
The collection consists of the records of Bangor University, papers of various University professors and lecturers, historians, antiquaries, farmers, businessmen and ministers; chapel records and the papers of local attorneys and solicitors.
The format of the documents can vary greatly. They can be deeds, rentals, accounts, surveys, diaries, correspondence, election ephemera, maps and plans, photographs, postcards and transcripts of manuscripts.
The whole collection consists of over 40,000 items and continues to grow. The in-house tradition of producing paper catalogues of the collection when approximately 1000 items had been listed is reflected in the online catalogue which is divided according to the catalogue volume number.