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Special Collections

Special Collections holds a wealth of primary source materials in a variety of formats and media – ranging from medieval times to the modern age – and with exceptional strengths in literature and the arts, sociology, politics and economics.

The Special Collections Reading Room is open weekdays, Monday to Friday, 11:00 - 17:00.

Request Special Collections & Archives items via the catalogue. Find out more about the Special Collections Reading Room.

Archives & Manuscripts (find and request items) Catalogue (find and request items)
Heures a l'usaige de Rome (Paris: Germain Hardouyn, c. 1516). A Book of Hours printed on vellum, with manuscript illustrations and rubrication.

Special Collections

Special Collections holds a wealth of primary source materials in a variety of formats and media – ranging from medieval times to the modern age – and with exceptional strengths in literature and the arts, sociology, politics and economics.

The Special Collections Reading Room is open weekdays, Monday to Friday, 11:00 - 17:00.

Request Special Collections & Archives items via the catalogue. Find out more about the Special Collections Reading Room.

Archives & Manuscripts (find and request items) Catalogue (find and request items)

  • Shakespeare’s First Folios, 1623

  • Johann Gottlieb Georgi, Description de toutes les nations de l’empire de Russie, c.1776-1777

  • Hocus Pocus Junior, 1634

  • Manuscript of William Langland, Piers Plowman, early 15th century

  • Auserlesene Schnecken, Muschelen und andre Schaalthiere by Franz Michael Regenfuss, 1758

  • University of London Supplemental Charter, 1867

Library 150

Senate House Library in 150 items

From ground-breaking scientific texts to great works of literature, this is a selection of items from the first major collections that established Senate House Library on 18 June 1871...

Senate House Library in 150 items