Collection guides

Western illuminated manuscripts

Approximately 9,000 manuscripts with decoration or illumination

Western prints

We have a vast number of prints in Rare Books, Manuscripts and Maps

Wildlife and environmental sounds

The largest collection of its kind in Europe and the most comprehensive in the world

Women in Science: archives and manuscripts, 1600 -...

Archives and manuscripts authored by women in the Library collections

Women Social Reformers: Archives and Manuscripts

Archives and Manuscripts of women who have contributed to campaigns for social reform in the United Kingdom, dating from...

Women's archives and manuscripts, 1600 - present

Archives and manuscripts authored by women in the Library collections

Women's Suffrage: Archives and Manuscripts

Archives and manuscripts relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom in the 19th and 20th centur...

World and traditional music collection

We hold one of the world's largest collections of recordings variously described as traditional, folk or world music

Yates Thompson manuscripts

Illuminated manuscripts collected by Henry Yates Thompson

Zweig manuscripts

Musical scores, fragments, and literary and historical items collected by Stefan Zweig (1881–1942).