Guides and catalogs to specific archival and manuscript collections

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Alston, R.C. Handlist of finding aids to the London Collections of the British Library. London: The British Library, 1991.

SML, Main Reference Room Z921 B86 A47 1991 (LC)

Bodleian Library (University of Oxford). On-line catalogues of Western manuscripts.

British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts. Manuscripts catalogue

This site is designed to serve as the single access point to information on the "mainstream" catalogs of the Department, which cover acquisitions of the British Library from 1753 to the present. A list of the catalogues included is found here. Printed editions of the catalogs are also held by Yale, for example:

British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts. Index of manuscripts in the British Library. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1984- . 10v.

SML, Main Reference Room Z6621 B837 +B75 (LC)

British Library manuscript collections

An excellent introductory site to the catalogs, collections, services, and projects of the British Library's manuscript collections.

British and Irish women's letters and diaries.

Churchill College. Churchill Archives Centre

This archive is home to almost 600 collections of personal papers and archives documenting the history of the Churchill era and after.

Modern Records Centre (University of Warwick)

The most important collection in Britain of trade union and industry papers.

Moore, Keith. A guide to the archives and manuscripts of the Royal Society. London: Royal Society, 1995.

SML, CD1069 ;L76 M66X 1995 (LC)

Scottish Documents: Scotland's Written Legacy

Created and maintained by the Scottish Archive Network, or SCAN, "Scottish Documents: Scotland's Written Legacy" offers a unique glimpse of the past through scanned copies of documents contained within the Scottish National Archives. Included in the selection posted by SCAN are more than 300,000 names of deceased Scots linking to more than two million scanned images of wills and death certificates covering a span of nearly four hundred years (1500-1875).

Yale Finding Aid Project

Inventories, indexes, or guides created by archival and manuscript repositories at Yale to provide information about specific collections held.

Guides and catalogs to archival and manuscript collections of specific types

Guide to British naval papers in North America. Compiled by Roger Morriss. New York: Mansell, 1994.

SML, Stacks VA454 G85X 1994 (LC)

Guide to the location of collections described in the Reports and Calendars series, 1870-1980 / Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. London: H.M.S.O., 1982.

SML, Stacks, LC Classification Z2019 G84X 1982 (LC)

Haslehurst, Cameron. A guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers, 1900-1964. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

SML, Main Reference Room Z2020 H39X 1996 (LC)

Huff, Cynthia. British women's diaries: a descriptive bibliography of selected nineteenth-century women's manuscript diaries. New York: AMS Press, 1985.

SML, Main Reference Room Z7964 G7 H84 1985 (LC)

The manuscript papers of British scientists, 1600-1940 / Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. London: H.M.S.O., 1982.

SML, Main Reference Room Z6611 M36X 1982 (LC)

Matthews,William. British diaries: an annotated bibliography of british diaries written between 1442 and 1942. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1950.

SML, Main Reference Room Z2014 D5 M37 (LC)

Papers of British cabinet ministers, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O., 1982.

LAW, BiblA P199

Papers of British churchmen, 1780-1940. London: H.M.S.O., 1987.

SML, Stacks Z6611 C59 P36X 1987 (LC)

Papers of British politicians 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O., 1989.

SML, Main Reference Room Z2018 P27 1989 (LC)

Principal family and estate collections. London: HMSO, 1996- . 2v.

SML, Main Reference Room CD1069.5 A1 P756 1996

Private papers of British colonial governors, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O., 1986.

SML, Stacks JV1061 G74 (LC)

Private papers of British diplomats, 1782-1900. London: H.M.S.O., 1985.

SML, Stacks Z6465 G7 P74 1985 (LC)