Special Collections & Archives
An Accredited Archive Service and home to Newcastle University's archive and rare book collections.
How to use our collections
Find everything you need to know about viewing material in person in our Reading Room, or remotely through our Virtual Reading Room Service. Also find how to request items, plan your visit and about copying and reusing our collections.
Teaching, research and engagement
Special Collections can support and enhance your teaching, research and engagement activities in a variety of inspirational and innovative ways.
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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)