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Featured collections
Featured collections
The Library and Archives hold an extensive range of items which support teaching, learning and research.
We hold significant collections centred on 18th- and 19th-century British copper and steel engravings, and the York Art Gallery Collection.
Our music collections include online audio recordings, audio-visual collections and collections of scores and books.
Our Yorkshire collection contains material relating to the social, economic, and cultural life of Yorkshire particularly from the 18th- to 20th-centuries.
Our medical collections form an important resource, providing information on disease in pre antibiotic times and on less medically advanced societies.
We hold an extensive collection of books and images on stained glass which support the teaching and research undertaken in stained glass studies, a University centre of excellence.
The Library and Archives collections cover a vast range of religious, social, and local history, primarily focusing on the activities of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and the Church of England.
The University of York and York Minster Library holds a substantial amount of material relating to the British Civil War period.
Literature and poetry are well represented in our Rare Books collection, with examples ranging from the 17th- to 20th-centuries and from drama to detective fiction.
These collections chart the history of Southern Africa, blending gritty records of colonial industries with the inspiring personal diaries and poems of the people who led the fight against apartheid.
From pioneering research into poverty to the birth of the modern welfare state, these collections reveal the many ways we have tried to create a fairer society for everyone.
We hold material on architecture, city planning, historic buildings, building conservation and other related subjects.
Explore the history and politics in India over the last two centuries, and find out more about the social and cultural identities of the country.
A unique look at our natural and designed world, featuring everything from personal diaries of 19th-century head gardeners to Yorkshire’s heritage parks.
These collections chart the rise and fall of the confectionery industry of York and its impact on Britain and the wider world.
