Whether you are working on a student assignment, engaged in a scholarly enquiry, exploring your family history, or seeking inspiration for a creative project, our collections pages can help you get started with your research. Alternatively, contact our expert staff who will be able to assist you with any enquiries.

You can explore some of Special Collections’s own research activities and collections projects below. Further case studies can be found on the University’s Heritage and Creativity website.

Modernist Archive Publishing Project

A critical digital archive of early twentieth-century publishers, beginning with Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press.

The legacies of Stephen Dwoskin

A 3 year interdisciplinary AHRC project to preserve and promote the material in the archive of the acclaimed experimental filmmaker, director and cinematographer

Staging Beckett

A research project to assess the impact of productions of Samuel Beckett’s drama on theatre practice and cultures in the United Kingdom and Ireland, resulting in a searchable database of these productions

DEGW Archive – the research project

Read more about DEGW Archive – the research project