What special (printed) collections does the University hold?
Architecture, landscape and environment
- Aerial photographs
- History of architecture
- Albert Booth - list available from the Archivist.
- David Canter - environmental psychology - list available from the Archivist.
- Norman Culley - list available from the Archivist.
- Geoffrey Rowe
Diet, nutrition
- The Yudkin Collection 1645-1938
This collection of historical books on diet and nutrition was donated to the University Library by Professor John Yudkin, the eminent nutritionalist. It contains many items of interest to social historians, sociologists and all those interested in the history of diet and nutrition.
List available from the Archivist. - Bottomley collection
Design & technology
- Empire Stores
- Gas
- Ogle collection (needlework)
- Textiles collection
Education
- Cedric Cullingford collection - list available from the Archivist.
- Holly Bank library
- Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution library
Health, nursing
- Health collection
- Hepworth collection
Music
- Gosling collection (jazz)
- Viol music collection - list available from the Archivist.
Newspapers and journals
A full list of historic newspapers and journals is available for reference.
Politics
- Arthur Gardiner collection
- Labour history newspapers (20th century) including: Socialist Worker: 1968 – 2006; Tribune: 1947 – 1992; Socialist Review: 1978 – 1997; Socialist Marxism Today: 1957 – 1983;The Democrat: 1997 – 2006; International Socialism: 1969 – 1977; Labour Research: 1937 – 1998; The Leveller: 1976 – 1982; The Economist: 1957 – 1966; New Statesman: 1960 – 1991; New Workers Press: 1969 – 1974; Labour Weekly: 1980 – 1987; Libertarian; CIS Reports; Print: 1968 – 1991; New Dialogue: 1994; New Dialogue News: 1995 – 2004
- Left Book Club
- Garth Pratt collection (co-operative movement) - list available from the Archivist.
- Alistair Wilson collection (left-wing publications)
- Whittaker collection (Conservative party ephemera)
Religion
- John Lancaster collection (Christadelphianism) - list available from the Archivist.
- Leonard Smith collection (Unitarianism)
- Wesley Historical Society (Yorkshire) library
Comprises over 13,000 printed items and some manuscripts accumulated by the WHS has been deposited. This includes histories of many chapels (but no registers), the Methodist Recorder and other journals and much material relating to the Wesley family. It is a nationally important research resource for Methodist history.
List available from the Archivist.
For biograpical information about Methodism, consult the Dictionary of Methodism http://dmbi.wesleyhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
Sport
- Cricket collection - list available from the Archivist.
- Rugby Football League collection
G. H. Wood Collection
The famous statistician G. H. Wood (1874-1945) was the Secretary for Huddersfield and District Woollen Manufacturers and Spinners Association from 1907. He was a free thinker and an associate of A. L. Bowley, who read widely and was active in a variety of local radical movements. He collected wage statistics over a broad field and published much of his collected material. His extensive library, first loaned to Huddersfield Technical College in c.1925, includes manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women's history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
Yorkshire/local history
- Stanley Chadwick collection - list available from the Archivist.
- Taylor Dyson Library - list available from the Archivist
- Yorkshire Collection - includes parish histories, transcripts of parish registers, some local maps, theses, as well as the publications of learned societies including the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, the Thoresby Society and the Surtees Society.
