Special Collections & Archives
An Accreditated Archive Service and home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
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Find everything you need to know about how to request items, plan your visit and copying and reusing our collections.
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Illustration of Grainger Street depicting Grey's Monument and surrounding buildings (Local Illustrations, ILL/11/26)
Collection highlight: Photograph of Gertrude Bell and group on camels involved in the Cairo Conference (Gertrude Bell Archive, GB/PERS/F/002)
Collection highlight: Old Aunt Elspa's ABC (Joseph II Crawhall Collection, Crawhall 50)
Collection highlight: Postcard from Thomas Baker Brown to his father from a prisoner of war camp in Limburg during WWI (Thomas Baker Brown Archive, TBB/1/1/1/1/289)
Collection highlight: A Frog he would a-wooing go (Sarah Chorley Collection, Chorley 109)
Collection highlight: Breviary manuscript (Mediaeval Manuscripts, MS 8)
