Research materials on microform

The following can be found in the Microform Research Room or the cabinets on Level 3

  • Early English Books 1485-1700 (indexed in the 'English Short Title Catalogue'.
    Also available as Early English Books Online(EEBO))
  • Early British Periodicals
  • Annual Register 1758-1974
  • Gentlemans magazine 1731-1907
  • Macmillans magazine 1859-1907
  • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1834-1927
  • Eighteenth century provincial newspapers Newcastle 1710-1800
  • Popular newspapers in the Second World War
  • The Times newspaper 1905-

  • Conditions and politics in occupied Western Europe 1940-45
  • Women's Suffrage Collection from the Manchester Central Library

  • Witchcraft in Europe and America
  • Crown Servants - papers of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl of Strafford
  • Earl of Strafford's letters and dispatches
  • Registers of the Archbishops of York 1215-1650

  • British Literary Manuscripts 1500-1700
  • English Linguistics 1500-1800
  • A Concordance to Old English

  • Music from the great collections - unpublished English music manuscripts before 1850
  • Music from the great collections unpublished continental music manuscripts from the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  • Archives of the Soviet Communist Party Russian Revolutionary Literature collection
  • Russian Archives - intercepted letters of the Russian revolutionaries 1883-1917

  • History of the United States Civil War
  • The Index 1862-1865
  • Business and Financial Papers 1780-1939: selected titles
  • Civil War and the Confederacy: the business records

  • Abolition and Emancipation
  • Slavery prior to 1850.
  • Papers of Frederick Douglass

  • Archives of the Federal Writers Project, Series one 1933-1943
  • Civil Rights during the Kennedy Administration 1961-63
  • Stetson Kennedy collection on civil rights
  • Crisis: a record of the darker races 1910-75
  • Colored American Magazine 1900-1909
  • East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917
  • Liberation 1956-71
  • New South 1946-70
  • Southern Patriot 1942-1968
  • Black Enterprise 1970-1975
  • Ebony 1945-1957
  • Tan 1950-1971
  • Black World
  • Arkansas Gazette 1948-1957
  • Arkansas State Press 1941-1959
  • Birmingham News 1955-1958
  • Black Panther 1969-1971
  • Black Scholar 1969-1975
  • Negro Labor Committee Record Group

  • Akten der Principalkommission des Immerwahrenden Reichstages zu Regensburg 1663-1806)
The following can be found in the cabinets on Level 4
  • 1881 Census of England and Wales
  • 1851 Census of England and Wales: a national sample
  • 1841, 1861,1891 Census some local records
  • Home intelligence reports on opinion and morale 1940-1944
  • Northumberland Record Office local births, baptisms, marriages and deaths registers
  • Northumberland alehouse recognizances 1822-1826
  • Northumberland poll books 1710, 1721, 1722, 1734, 1747, 1748, 1774, 1826, 1841
  • A transcription of the Return of Owners of Land 1873 for the county of Northumberland
  • Goods directory of Berwick 1806
  • Parish censuses Northumberland 1841-1891
  • 1881 census of Scotland