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/

The Walmsley (Anne) Collection is named for the person that formerly owned the books. It contains poetry and prose by Caribbean and black British writers, including Kamau Brathwaite, Derek Walcott (the Nobel Prize for Literature winner), Olive Senior and Samuel Selvon. Some of the books contain additional material such as correspondence and some of the books are inscribed to Anne by the authors.

The Wallis Collection contains books on mathematics and maths education and includes works by Robert Record (the man who introduced the = symbol), such as The grounde of artes: teaching the perfecte worke and practise of arithmetike (1582) and works by and about Isaac Newton, such as Newton's Principia in its first American edition (1846).

The books were formerly owned by Peter Wallis (1918-1992), a lecturer in the School of Education. There are almanacs, works on algebra and geometry, school text books, works on astronomy including J.F.W. Herschel's Astronomy (1835), guides to measuring, book-keeping, ready reckoners, treatises, Euclid's Elements and manuals.

The papers of Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870-1949), relate chiefly to his political career, but also include material concerning his personal and professional life. They cover his election campaigns and his political career, during the years 1894-1938, and in particular they cover the different political offices he held, as a Liberal M.P. and Cabinet Minister, and as a member of the Board of Education, 1908-11, and the Board of Trade, 1914-16 and 1931-37. There is also material relating to Runciman's attempt to solve the 1938 Sudeten crisis through his mission to Czechoslovakia.The collection also includes the diaries and some correspondence of Walter's wife, Hilda Runciman, herself briefly an M.P. Hilda's diaries have been found to be of particular value to researchers, providing as they do an insight into the world and circles in which she and her husband moved, sometimes revealing insider knowledge about the current talk in London Society, a classic example being Hilda's remarks in her 1936 diary about the abdication crisis and the King's intentions. In addition, there are 114 volumes of press cuttings, plus material relating to Walter Runciman's father, the 1st Baron Runciman, as well as documents relating to Sir Walter Leslie Runciman (1900-1989).

A large collection of articles in Russian, German, and French, on a range of subjects, primarily concerning history.

A collection of documents relating to financial matters. Primarily comprises receipts for travel and accommodation. Also includes Wilcox's Second World War Ration book and life insurance policy, as well as receipts and bills from Wilcox's later life in Newcastle upon Tyne.

An assortment of articles and publications collected by Wilcox. One file comprises a collection of book reviews from the Times on subjects primarily relating to history. Other items include Chansons D'Oiseaux, a collection of French poems; R.G. Collingwood's 'A Guide to the Roman Wall'; a report from The Committee of Public Accounts [c. 1901?]; two copies of 'The Light Green' periodical, two copies of The National Trust list of properties for 1946-47, cuttings from the Spectator and other papers, A Scheme for Rendering Immediate Economic Assistance to Russia, and three maps of France.

Primarily consists of approximately 160 photographs. Most are black and white portrait photographs or group photographs of friends and family. Also includes a number of photographs of English and French landmarks, picture postcards and a pencil drawing of newspaper editor J.L. Garvin.

Concerning recent events, addressed to the Russian armies.

Concerning the Army at the Galician front, the preparation of the Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd, and the actions of the Provisional Government.