Special Collections

Publicly available documents covering research in the arts and cultural industries, which have been collated and abstracted in the journal Arts Research Digest.  

Over 200 titles published in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Many are moralising tales, published by Christian Societies and presented to individual children for good attendance, good behaviour at school or Sunday School. Fables, fairy tales, poetry, chap books, adventure stories, a few non-fiction (nature books, historical figures) are also included. Several items have fine binding and coloured illustrations.

A selection of historical and current annual reports from the FTSE 100.

This Collection consists of three sets of archives containing materials  associated with the setting up and running of each of the following:

English Regional Arts Boards (ERAB)
Includes policy documents, research papers and reports; minutes of meetings of chief officers and other committees; conference papers; correspondence, press releases and publicity.

Visual Arts UK 1996 (VAUK)
Includes publicity material, press cuttings and published items; administrative files, committee papers and correspondence; artists records (including original works of art); conference and seminar programmes, papers and transcripts; audience research data; photographic slides and prints and videotapes (including broadcast quality tapes from BBC, Tyne-Tees and Border Television) .

Year of the Artist (YOTA)
Includes correspondence and committee papers, marketing and publicity material, information on arts residencies and images of artist' work.

Selected bound volumes of the T.G.W.U. Record; Annual Reports and Balance Sheets of the T.G.W.U; Minutes and Records of T.G.W.U. Delegate Conferences; selected bound volumes of the Socialist Standard; numbers 4-18 of the video Northern Newsreel, and a small collection of general monographs and texts relevant to labour history.

The European Documentation Centre (EDC) at Northumbria University was established in 1973, since when it received one copy, in English, of all official publications from the Office for Official Publications, Luxembourg.
The EDC contains a large quantity of monograph publications; a complete collection of the Official Journal containing all the EU Directives and Regulations; a substantial quantity of statistical publications from the Statistical Office, Eurostat, and over 100 EU journal titles.
The majority of the collection is shelved on Floor 2 of the City Campus Library, with earlier material being located in the Library Sub-Basement.  Many EU documents and publications are now freely available on the internet, accessible via the NORA databases and websites, or via the EDC’s guide to sources, Finding EU Information.

A collection of printed material from a variety of sources, including journal supplements, of potential interest to those studying health, community studies and education. This material is indexed in Northumbria’s in-house HSWE database which covers the disciplines of health, community studies and education, refers to journal articles and other materials available at Coach Lane Library and provides full text links to government publications, from 1997 to date.

Microfilms of 19th and early 20th century newspapers and documents, and other selected material including Beehive, The George Howell Collection, British Labour History Ephemera, Northern Star, Women’s Dreadnought, Workers Dreadnought etc. The collection includes several printed newspapers and one or two more recent journals.

A collection of the fundamental encyclopaedic works; the principal law reports and a selection of subject law reports; a broad and in-depth collection of loose-leaf encyclopaedic works, many in multiple copies. The Collection is principally intended for use by Legal Practice Course and Bar Professional Training Course students.

Local Acts of parliament 1765 to 1954; a selection of Private Acts of Parliament; an edited collection of General Acts of Parliament from Magna Carta (1215) to 1765.

A collection of material donated from the North East Centre for Playwork Education between 1991 and 2006.

The School Resources Collection is a collection of children’s books and non-book material to support education students on placement in schools.  It is also useful to those studying Children's Literature and Librarianship.