A rich collection of mainly English, Scottish and American poetry and publications relating to the craft of producing verse. The presentation inscriptions point to Roddy Lumsden role as mentor to younger poets on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Marine Technology Special Collection (MTSC), is a unique historical resource of marine technical documents from British shipbuilding, including the less well documented marine engine building, ship repairing, and ship breaking industries. The collection spans the mid-19th century to 2000, with an emphasis on North East England. The collection includes company documents, technical publications and ‘British Shipbuilding Database’, which is a database of 80,000 British-built ships of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Newcastle University has made a significant contribution to this industrial heritage, while its School of Marine Science and Technology is renowned throughout the world. For over a century, it has played a leading role in the teaching and research of the marine technologies including naval architecture, shipbuilding, and marine engineering.

The MTSC, formerly managed by the School of Marine Science and Technology was transferred to the University Library in September 2024. Visit MTSC’s website to find out more details. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/about-us/facilities/marine/

A collection of 20th century British and American authors, including avant-garde local author Barry MacSweeney and “Black Mountain poet” Robert Creeley: the ephemeral and rare nature of the “hasty editions” and the presentation inscriptions attest to the authors’ closeness with Ric and Annie Caddel, whose Pig Press played an important part in the British Poetry Revival.

A rich collection of mainly Anglo-American poetry with authors’ presentation inscriptions which offer a glimpse into the vast interpersonal network of relationships which Tom Pickard established around the Morden Tower venue over four decades with modernist poets including Basil Bunting, Barry MacSweeney and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The collection spans the poet’s entire creative life and includes journal issues, volumes and ephemeral “hasty editions” associated with spoken word events. Presentation inscriptions in many items attest to the friendship between Barry MacSweeney and his former journalist colleague Terry Kelly.

The collection documents the author’s published poetry in pamphlet, book and journal format and includes French, Norwegian, German, Serbian and Swedish translations of some of her work.

Bloomsbury: A Strategic Vision. Cover Report (possibly a draft version). Farrells.
Bloomsbury: A Strategic Vision - Traffic Studies and Street Clutter Survey. Hyder. (with original traffic study drawings).
Bloomsbury: A Strategic Vision - Quality Appraisal of Public Realm Proposals. Space Syntax Ltd
Bloomsbury: Street Design Manual. EDCO Design Ltd.
Bloomsbury: A Strategic Vision - Illustrative Schemes for Public Spaces. EDC Design Ltd.
Camden Urban Realm Analysis: Bloomsbury Project - Photographic Views.
The Bloomsbury Project. UCL Bartlett School of Planning.
Bloomsbury: A Strategic Vision (Digital Version)
Digital Object File ID: TF-2022-07-11-013

Survey result graphs, and raw survey data (original data held on 10 CD's).
Digital File IDs:
TF-2022-07-11-003 to TF-2022-07-11-012.

File 1: Correspondence with M3 Consulting, June 2005 - November 2006.
File 2: Correspondence with M3 Consulting, January 2006 - July 2007.
File 3: Correspondence with EDCO Design (landscaping) October 2005 - July 2006. Includes 1 digital file. Content of digital file contains pdf document of street design manual.
Digital Object File ID: TF-2022-07-11-001
File 4: Correspondence with Hyder Consulting (Traffic). February 2005 - October 2006.
File 5: Correspondence with Space Syntax (pedestrian), January - October 2006.

The papers and photographs of Gertrude Bell mainly consist of the letters Gertrude Bell sent home to her family whilst on her travels, of the diaries she kept when abroad, and the photographs taken whilst she was away.

The papers consists of sixteen thousand letters, sixteen diaries, seven notebooks and forty-four packets of miscellaneous material; whilst the photographic collection is about 7000 in number, and consists of photographs taken by her between c.1900-1918. Those of Middle Eastern archaeological sites are of great value because they record structures which have since been eroded or, in some cases, have disappeared altogether, while those of the desert tribes are of considerable anthropological and ethnographical interest.

Her competence as a field archaeologist and photographer means that the papers are indispensable for archaeological research of parts of the Middle East.

The items in the Bell Miscellaneous Papers contain material relating to Bell's work and travels, including contemporary articles, notes by Bell on various topics (archaeological sites, Arab tribes, etc.), letters concerning the publication of Bell's letters by Lady Richmond and letters to and from Gertrude Bell, maps and plans, literary manuscripts, lecture notes and copies of letters from Gertrude Bell held elsewhere. There is also a series of the letters known as the Doughty-Wylie letters, 1913-1915. These are the letters between Gertrude Bell and Charles Doughty-Wylie, an army officer with whom Bell was in love. The letters were returned to Gertrude Bell after his death at Gallipoli in 1915.