University of Leicester Special Collections
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- University of Leicester
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- Address
- Archives and Special Collections, David Wilson Library, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, England, UK
- Directions
- Archives and Special Collections is located in the basement of the David Wilson Library on the main University of Leicester campus. Campus map: .
- Opening Hours
- For our current opening hours please visit: https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/access
- Closing Hours
- Closed on public holidays and over the Christmas period. Check our website for details.
- Terms of Use
- All visitors must comply with our Searchroom regulations: •All coats, bags and umbrellas should be left outside of the reading room (lockers available). •Pencils and laptops only may be used to take notes. •Pens and highlighters are not permitted in the reading room. •Food and drink may not be brought into the reading room. •Digital photography is permitted, subject to the completion of a signed copyright declaration form.
- Access Information
- Users are required to book an appointment and obtain a Library ticket prior to their visit. To discuss arrangements please contact us via email or telephone.
- Advance Orders
- Photographs Allowed
- No
- Accessible
- Yes
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- The Alfred Jewel replica
- The Andrew Waterman Collection
- 'The Beleevers Burden, and his rest', collection of 17th century sermons and prayers
- The Caroline Holden Archive
- The Chaproniere Collection
- The David Campton Collection
- The Fairclough Collection
- The Gorrie Collection: Labour movement memorabilia, c.1889-1909
- The Harold James Dyos Collection
- The history of schools in Leicestershire: PGCE dissertations submitted to University of Leicester
- The Joan Skinner Archive
- The Joan Thirsk Collection
- The Kevin Laffan Archive
- The Orton Collection: records relating to Joe Orton, playwright (1933-1967)
- The Reg and Ann Cartwright Archive
- The Rene MacColl Collection
- The St. Albans Chronicle [The Brute Chronicle, or The Chronicle of England]
- The Sue Townsend Collection: records relating to Sue Townsend, author and playwright (1946 - 2014)
- The Thomas Ford Papers
- The Watermark Collection
- A collection of classical and early Christian writings
- Advices given by the Society of Friends (Quakers) in London, 1672-1776
- Album of nineteenth century devotional verses and extracts
- Benjamin Burrows: Music Collection
- Book of Devotions and Prayers
- Book of Hours
- Chapter extracts from Ludolphus of Saxony's 'Life of Christ' (Vita Christi)
- Character studies copied from Clarendon's 'History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars', 1704-1707
- Collection of Victorian Letters
- 'Compendium de vita Job' ('The Life of Job') by Peter of Blois
- Copies of a 'Discourse of prayer' by John Wilkins (1614-1672) and 'A sacrament' by Richard Vines (1600-1656)
- Correspondence of Laura (Riding) Jackson
- Correspondence of William Greenfield, philologist (1799-1831)
- Declaration against subscribing to the Articles of the Church of England
- Diaries and notebook compiled by Robert Benson Dockray, railway engineer
- Edward Neville da Costa Andrade papers.
- Evidence submitted to the Royal Commission on the Press.
- Funeral sermon preached at the Independent Chapel, Melbourn, Derbyshire by George Collishaw
- Grants of estates sequestered during the Interregnum
- Historica quaedam: documents relating to the reign of King Edward III
- Joan Walker Papers
- John Hersee Collection of Manuscript Exercise Books
- John Tydeman Papers: Sue Townsend and the Adrian Mole series, 1981-2017
- Leicester Medical Society
- Literary and Personal Papers of Hans Majut
- Manuscript accounts of excursions by William Fry (1763-1849)
- Manuscript letter from Philip Doddridge, 1735
- Manuscript letter from Philip Doddridge to Samuel Clarke, 1750
- Nineteenth Century Scrapbook
- Notebook containing a list of members of the Church of Christ located on Mark Lane, London
- Notebook of Rev. Thomas Kaye Bonney Nevinson (1851-1930)
- Papers of Helga and Irene Bejach, 1930s - 1990s
- Papers of Norman Lockyer relating to the Hill Observatory/Norman Lockyer Observatory
- Proceedings of the reformation of the University of Cambridge and depositions against Essex ministers in 1644
- Rebecca Dixon's Recipe Book (19th century)
- Records of the Association of Independent Museums (AIM)
- Rose Griffiths Archive, 1980-2011
- Sandhurst Royal Military College: reports, newspaper cuttings and correspondence
- Sermons of Martin Luther, 1540
- Spens Committee on Secondary Education
- Sudeley Committee Papers
- 17th - 19th Century nonconformist ministers and evangelicals: scrapbook containing letters, press cuttings and portrait prints/autographs
- 19th Century Anglican clergy: album containing letters, press cuttings and portrait prints/ autographs
- 16th century Antiphonal
- 14th century Book of Hours
- 15th century Book of Hours
- 15th century Book of Hours
- 15th century Book of Hours
- 15th century Book of Hours in Netherlandish
- 12th century Book of Psalms ('In Psalterium') Vol. 2
- 12th century Book of Psalms ('In Psalterium') Vol. 1
- 19th century Commonplace Book relating to nonconformist churches
- 15th century Gradual
- 15th century Gradual
- 19th Century Nonconformist Ministers: album containing letters, press cuttings and portrait prints
- 13th century Vulgate Bible
- 13th century Vulgate Bible (Vol. 2)
- 13th century Vulgate Bible (Vol. 1)
- 13th century Vulgate Bible, with medicinal recipes
- 5th Northern General Hospital, Leicester: Photographs and postcards of staff and views of wards
- University of Leicester Institutional Archive
- University of Padua: Doctorate diploma awarded to John Bon in 1707
- University of Pisa: Doctorate diploma awarded to James Branengus in 1616
- University of Siena: Doctorate diploma awarded to Matthias de Veltronibus in 1630
- World War II ephemera