Resources for Local History

  • Miscellaneous Manuscripts (coal mining records)
  • John and Thomas Bell Collection (Port of Tyne, local book trade)
  • Diaries of William Brewis, Northumbrian farmer (1833-1850)
  • Diaries of Thomas Sopwith, mining engineer (1803-1879)
  • Papers relating to Dr. Charles John Gibb (1824-1916)
  • Robert White Papers
  • Edwin Clarke Local Collection
  • Robert White Collection, including illustrative materials
  • Bell-White Collection
  • Chapbooks and Broadsides
  • Hartlepool Printer's Collection
  • Hindson-Reid, University printer (1870s-1960s)
  • Hospital Archives
  • Local Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Otterburn Enquiry Reports into the Army's application to extend its use of the National Park
  • Playbills, mostly for the Theatre Royal and dating from its opening in 1788
  • University Publications Archive
  • Walton Collection
  • Hindson-Reid Woodblocks
  • Burman-Alnwick Collection
  • Papers of the Trevelyan family
  • Papers of Robert Spence Watson
  • Heslop Collection of Dictionaries R. Oliver Heslop's dictionaries
  • Maurice Bell Collection relating to industry in the North East
  • 1801-1850 Collection containing local histories