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Holocaust Collection
A developing collection of books on the history of the Jewish Holocaust in Europe in the early 1940s.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
IFSBAC Collection (Institute for Folklore Studies in Britain and Canada)
A collection of books and journals covering the topics of Canadian language, tradition and history.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Incunabula and Early Manuscripts
A collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (books printed up to the year 1500).
The manuscripts include a twelfth-century Psalterium and a thirteenth-century charter. Among the incunabula is a French Book of Hours from 1494 and Hartmann Schedel´s "Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493.
For a full list of items please see the external documents section below.
Innes Smith Collection
A collection of books on the history of medicine. The books range in date from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, all bearing the somewhat macabre Innes Smith bookplate. There is a strong bias towards medical biography.
For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.
Madeleine Blaess Documents
Mendelson Collection
Winnington Papers
Notebooks, reports (published and unpublished), correspondence, photographs, manuscripts and personal documents created by the journalist and author Alan Winnington. The material is mainly focussed on his professional career as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker in China, Korea and Berlin between 1949 and 1980. It also contains material relating to his later activities as an author of fictional works.