Research papers and other material on several topics: English language and literature, theatrical history, nursery rhymes, World War One battles in 1918, and Anglo-Saxon cross fragments of the Sheffield area.

The archive is in several distinct sections, and consists of research material in manuscript, with some printed material, often with ms. annotations. The sections include:

Hamer Research Collections on English language and literature (MS 62); Manuscript notes on nursery rhymes (MS 63); British Battles on the Western Front from 18 August - 11 November 1918 (MS 72A); Scott-Hamer Mss. on Anglo-Saxon monuments in the Sheffield area (MS 77); Robert Henryson Poems and fables, 1933, with ms. annotations (MS 107); Temple Edition of Shakespeare, ed. W. Aldis Wright, c. 1900, with ms. annotations (MS 135); Miscellaneous literary notes (MS 136); Theatre collection of lantern slides; The Towneley Hall Mss: The Spending of the Money of Robert Nowell of Reade Hall, Lancashire. Edited By A.B. Gossart, 1877, 'with annotations and corrections from the MS (Chetham Library, Manchester), by Douglas Hamer, 1950-2'; Manuscript notes and cuttings on Chaucer, and archaeology and antiquities (MS 345)

The nursery rhyme material, researched to academic standards, was intended for publication, but was pre-empted by the publication of the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes in 1951.