Covers Loebl's academic career from his BSc in Electrical Engineering (awarded 1949 by King's College, Durham University, now part of Newcastle University), MPhil (awarded 1978 by Durham University), Phd (awarded 1985 by Newcastle University) and a series of lecture courses on Jewish history which Loebl delivered at Newcastle University in the 1980s. Contains certificates and degree ceremony photographs, early student notebooks on electrical engineering, research notes and source material relating to his doctoral thesis and Jewish history research.

Group papers, sales and marketing files, finance files and general correspondence files for the various engineering enterprises with which Herbert Loebl was involved in his lifetime.

The Joyce Loebl and Co files also contains a number of annotated scrapbooks which trace the history of Loebl's engineering enterprises through photographs, newspaper cuttings and other ephemera.

Correspondence files and brochures for New Business North, incorporating the TechSearch initiative and Newcastle Technology Centre files. The collection also holds various research files relating to technology transfer in Europe and a number of governmental reports and publications on the subject.

Herbert Loebl received various awards during his lifetime and his personal collection includes photographs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and letters of congratulations regarding his many honours.

Loebl's personal papers also contain various items of ephemera relating to his life and early escape from Nazi Germany and a large collection of annotated scrapbooks spanning the years c.1900 - 2012. The scrapbooks contain photographs, ephemera from events, letters, newspaper clippings and other personal items. They cover a large range of topics including family events and interests, local events in Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumbria, events within the local Jewish community, vists to Herbert Loebl's hometown of Bamberg in Germany, Herbert Loebl's many awards and achievments and items relating to the many local organisations with which Herbert Loebl was involved during his lifetime.