Our Collections

This collection includes books on crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry, for food and non-food products

This collection contains books on all aspects of archaeology from the paleolithic through to the Anglo-Saxon periods.

This collections includes books about the art and design of buildings, and their designers.

This collection includes books on painting, drawing, printmaking, illuminated manuscripts, the decorative arts, book illustrations, and sculpture.

This collection includes books by and about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

This collection includes books about organisations based on membership: private clubs, trades associations, societies formed around common interests, secret societies, etc.

This collection contains books on where and how beer was produced, the companies that produced it, the places where it was drunk, and the advertising material associated with the industry.

This collection includes bibliographies, catalogues, guides, and finding lists.

This collections includes memoirs, reminiscences, biographies, and autobiographies

This collection contains items on all aspect of the printed word from design and production, through sales and acquisition, to collection, description and use. It also includes items on manuscripts and archival material.

This collection contains books discussing specific sectors, services, and trade.

This collection contains books written for children and teenagers, and studies of specific genres and authors.

This collection includes books about the design, development, and maintenance of public buildings, transport infrastructure, utilities, and sports venues.

This collection includes histories of companies, public bodies, cultural organisations, charities, and educational establishments.

This collection includes books about criminal actions and their detection, prevention, judging, and punishment.

This collection includes fiction featuring professional, private, or amateur detectives, and criminous acts.

This collection contains scripts for productions on the stage, television, radio, and screen, and critical studies.

This collection includes books on economic theory, labour, trade, and the financial sector.

This collection includes books on educational theory and practice, and primary, secondary, further, and higher educational establishments.

This collection includes works by and about Jean Cocteau, and contriubutions to other works.

This collection includes books on grammar, etymology, wordlore, linguistic theory, and the teaching of languages.

This collection includes books about specific authors, audiences, and  literary forms, genres, movements, and periods.

This collection includes books on the history of localities in England, Wales, and Ireland.

This collection includes books on industrial processes and their organisation from extraction of raw materials to finished products.

This collections includes maps and books about map-makers or map-making.

This collection includes books on pure, applied, and recreational mathematics.

This collection includes books on the organisation and training of military units, regimental histories, weapons, and accounts of conflicts.

This collection includes tales involving supernatural persons, actions, or events, folk tales, and traditional tales which have an element of historical fact.

This collection includes books relating to reputed sciences which claim to involve knowledge of a secret and mysterious nature.

This collection contains books by and about Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.

This collection includes books discussing observed phenomena or powers in nature which operate outside of currently known scientific laws or scientific understanding.

This collection includes books on metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and logic, and from both an occidental and oriental perspective.

This collection includes poems, ballads, and limericks, and critical studies.

This collection includes books on political parties and ideologies, individual politicians, political apparatus, and political trials.

This collection includes books on the nature, functions, and phenomena of the mind.

This collection contains books on local, regional, and national government and governance.

This collection includes books on systems of faith and worship, places of worship, and religious figures.

This collection includes imaginative and futuristic stories, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial.

This collection contains books on the national history of Scotland, its governance its topography and geography; and key historical, military, and political figures.

This collection contains items on the people, places, events, businesses, institutions, natural history, and topography related to specific communities and regions.

This collection includes the original stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, literary studies, parodies, pastiches, adaptations, and dramatisations.

This collection includes books signed by the author or illustrator, published in a numbered limited edition, or known to have been in the library of a person of note from an ownership inscription or bookplate.

This collections includes books on social structures, the lived experience of the individual and distinct groups of individuals, and interactions between such groups and with the state.

This collection includes books on railways, shipping, cars, trams, buses, and aeroplanes, and associated infrastructure.

This collection contains books on where and how wine and spirits were produced, the companies that produced it, and the advertising material associated with the industries.