Printed research materials

The Library holds many collections of documents that can be used as primary research material. These include nineteenth century journals, authors letters, literary texts, scientists papers, government documents, reprints of historical documents, collected works of authors and composers.

You can search the catalogue using keywords or the names of authors to find these materials. Facsimiles of manuscripts can be found by doing a subject or keyword search for facsimiles manuscripts. Or ask your Liaison Librarian for advice.

Some examples follow:

  • The Engineer 1856-1984 Level 1 compact shelving Per 620 ENG
  • Engineering 1866-1944 Level 1 compact shelving Per 620 ENG
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1671-1913. Research Reserve periodical.(1776-1886 online).
  • Illustrated London News 1842-1944 - in Special Collections see catalogue for details.

History

  • Camden Society publications Per 900 CAM - historical documents
  • Dugdale Society publications Per 900 DUG - historical documents
  • Publications of the Surtees Society Per 900 SUR - North East history
  • Publications of the Lincoln Record Society Level 1 compact shelving Per 900 LIN
  • Thoresby Society Publications Per 900 THO
A useful guide to these collections and series is Texts and Calendars: an analytical guide by E.L.C. Mullins - Reference 016.942 MUL that indexes series of printed texts and calendars that were published up to 1982.
  • Domesday Book in facsimile - Special Collections
  • Documents on British foreign policy 1919-1939

Voyages and travels

  • Hakuylt Society publications Per 900 HAK

English literature

  • Early English Text Society publications 820.8 EAR

Collected works

You can search the catalogue using keywords such as collected works or complete papers to find authors writings, for example:
  • Complete works of George Orwell
  • The works of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Bodleian Shelley manuscripts
  • Blake's illuminated books
  • Collected papers of Albert Einstein
  • Collected papers of R.A. Fisher
  • Collected papers of Sigmund Freud
  • Collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister
  • Collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson
  • Collected works of Walter Bagehot
  • The papers of Martin Luther King Jnr

Correspondence

You can search the catalogue using correspondence and a personal name as keywords to find for example:
  • Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • The Born - Einstein letters
  • The correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
  • The George Eliot letters
  • Collected letters of Thomas Hardy
  • The correspondence of Edmund Burke
  • Correspondence Issac Newton
  • The correspondence of Michael Faraday

Manuscripts

  • Early English manuscripts in facsimile
  • Palaeographical Society facsimiles of manuscripts and inscriptions