Special Collections and Archives at Aberdeen University
very impressive and attractive suite contains information about its digitisation projects which include the Aberdeen Bestiary, the Burnet Psalter and the papers of the philosopher Thomas Reid along with images from the MacBean Stuart and Jacobite Collection

Angus Archives
contains a summary of its holdings, a series about its archival gems and notes for those conducting genealogy research .

Armagh Observatory
contains an informative history of the Observatory, and a detailed description of its archives relating to the period 1790-1916.

Ayrshire Archives
contains an introduction to the repository, a list of the County Council records held and an information sheet about the 'Commissioners of Supply'.

Balliol College, Oxford
contains a detailed history of the College and information regarding material in the College archives for genealogists and biographers regarding past members of the College.

Bank of England
contains a summary description of the Bank's holdings.

Barnsley Archive Service
contains summary information about the aims and holdings of the Barnsley Archive Service.

Berkshire Record Office
contains a summary of the records held, information about its services to the public, donors and depositors. It also contains a useful page of essential information and details of sources for family history.

Birmingham City Archives
contains an outline of the records held, with a comprehensive guide to the Church of England records held, including a breakdown by parish. It also has a link to a useful page of information for those conducting genealogical research in the Birmingham area.

Birmingham University Special Collections
contains a fairly comprehensive introduction to its collections which include the Church Missionary Society archive and the Chamberlain Papers and details of its printed book collections.

Bodleian Library, Oxford
contains descriptive accounts of the various parts of the library including the Map Room

Borthwick Institute of Historical Research (York)
contains a comprehensive series of pages which include a summary guide to its holdings and information about its publications and its searching service for those unable to conduct their own research.

University of Bristol, Special Collections
contains information about its archival holdings, with a very detailed description of it's Brunel collections.

British Bryological Society Photographic Archives
contains brief information about the collection.

British Library
contains information about its services, exhibitions and its collections with dedicated pages relating to manuscripts , maps, Oriental and India Collections, and the sound archive. Its Digitial Library initiatives include the Magna Carta and the Electronic Beowulf OPAC97 is also available for free.

British Library of Political and Economic Science
contains a guide to holdings detailing its collections relating to modern British political, economic and social history, the history of the social sciences with particular reference to economics and social anthropology and the history of the London School of Economics, includes information for researchers, and a searchable OPAC

British Telecom
contains a brief description of its main collections and its library.

Buckinghamshire Records & Local Studies Service
contains an introduction to the service and a number of guides concerning visiting the record office and family history

Cambridge University Library (Dept of Manuscripts and University Archives)
contains a detailed series of pages describing the extensive holdings of the University, its named collections include those of Stanley Baldwin, Charles Darwin, the Ely Diocesan Archives and some College manuscript collections.

Canterbury Cathedral Archives
contains summary details about the archives, further information is also available on Kent County Council's website

University of Central Lancashire archive collections
contains a brief description of the archive collections held in the Library and a fuller description of the Livesey Collection and the Livesey Project. The Livesey Collection focuses on the temperance movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also includes material on a variety of social issues, for example, public and personal health, prison reform and child welfare.

Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature
contains information about the centre at the University of Kent at Canterbury and its collections and an online Andy Capp exhibition.

Centre of South Asian Studies (Cambridge)
contains information about the Centre's extensive holdings including a list of its principal collections of papers and the memoirs of individuals who have lived and worked in India.

Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service
contains information about the new joint service for the County of Cheshire and the City of Chester including its holdings, services and publications. It also contains a link to an index of Cheshire wills proved between 1492-1857 which is hosted by the Family History Society of Cheshire. The Chester Community History and Heritage Service is also available.

Churchill Archives Centre (Cambridge)
this site provides both a Select Guide and Master Guide to its holdings. Besides containing personal papers and correspondence relating to all areas of Sir Winston Churchill's life, it also contains over three hundred other collections of private papers of scientists, public servants, diplomats, soldiers, sailors and airman.

City Ark
this site contains

Corporation of London Records office

Design Council Archive
contains an introduction to the archive and details of the picture library.

Dorset Record Office
contains a brief introduction to the record office.

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Archives and Local History Service
contains information about the area it covers, a summary of its holdings and the research service it offers.

Dundee City Archive and Record Centre
contains a list of the Official Records held and those retransmitted from the Scottish Record Office aswell as its famiily, business and private records that have been deposited.

Dundee University
revamped and extended series of pages provides general information about its opening times and its publications. There are also some summary descriptions of its holdings arranged by subject.

Durham County Record Office
contains basic information about the record office and its opening times and a link to the online tribute County Durham Remembers

Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
contains a very useful, and easy to use, guide to a number of its collections . These descriptions include notes on the content, origin and nature of the collection and an indication as to its size. There are also very useful notes regarding access and links to related deposits held in the University.

University of East Anglia Archive Collection
contains information about the libraries collections relating to art and design and the theatre it also contains details of the The History of Advertising Trust Archive (HAT Archive) and the East Anglian Film Archive.

Edinburgh University Library (Special Collections)
This site contains summary descriptions of its holdings and a users guide to its manuscript collections.

Essex Record office
contains a very impressive suite of pages detailing its holdings, its sevices and its publications.

University of Essex Special Collections
This page contains a general introduction to over twenty collections held in the Albert Sloman Library at the University. These include personal papers and correspondence to local and national organisations including that of the SDP archives.

University of Exeter Special Collections
This site contains summary information about the collections it holds, with a link to details about Exeter Cathedral Library

Fawcett Library (London Guildhall University)
contains general information about the national research library for women's history. There is an outline guide to its collections which can be accessed either alphabetically or thematically. The library includes theJosephine Butler Society Library which has its own guide for researchers.

GEC archives
Provides summary details about the archives, it also includes a timeline chart showing the development of the various component companies.

Glasgow Caledonian University Library
Contains a brief description of the collections held at the University, including the Norman and Janey Buchan Collection of books and pamphlets and the Children 1st archive.

Glasgow City Archives
contains an introduction and summary of its holdings with a guide for family histroians on tracing your ancestors.

Glasgow School of Art archives
This site contains information about both the School's archival and photographic collections which includes material deposited by former pupils and staff.

Glasgow University Archives
Detailed and impressive series of pages containing information and lists about the collections archives, the Scottish Brewing Archive, the Greater Glasgow Health Board archive , the Business Records Centre . There is also information about SUSCAG the Scottish University Special Collections and Archives Group which has arranged a number of conferences between archivists to discuss ISAD(G) and SGML.

Glasgow University Library (Special Collections)
Contains a provisional, yet highly detailed catalogue of over 300 manuscripts from the library of John Ferguson who was Professor of Chemistry at the University between 1874-1915. These manuscripts and over 7000 volumes relate in particular to alchemy, although more diverse subjects including the occult, witchcraft and gypsy literature are represented in his library.

Gloucestershire Record Office
Contains basic information about the record office, how to get there and the range of services it offers.

Gonville and Caius College Archive (Cambridge)
very impressive site containing a summary guide to its holdings and an on-line exhibition to celebrate its 650th anniversary.

Guernsey Archives Service
Contains summary details of its holdings, especially those relating to the Occupation and material of interest to the family and local historians. It also includes brief notes about conducting research in the Channel Islands

Guildhall Library Manuscripts section
A series of pages hosted by the Institute of Historical Research containing a clear yet detailed guide to its holdings . It is particularly strong on material relating to the City of London and has a large collection of business records.

Hackney Archives Department
Contains a useful guide to its holdings, along with subject based guides including sources for family history and business records.

Hammersmith and Fulham Libraries
Contains general information about the archives and includes a very informative short guide to its collections

Hampshire Record Office
contains a series of pages providing basic information about the Record Office.

Heriot-Watt University archives
contains background information about the University and its archive collections.

HSBC Group
contains an introduction to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Group archives which includes those of Midland Bank and the British Bank of the Middle East and the former Mercantile Bank of India.

HTV Wales
contains brief details about its tape archives.

University of Huddersfield
contains brief information about the archives and special collections deposited at the University.

Hull University
contains details of its opening hours and access, with its collections arranged both alphabetically and by subject . It also contains news from the archives about recent deposits and publications, and access to its manuscripts and archives database.

Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London)
contains information about the Institute and a guide to its holdings. Detailed descriptions of many of its collections can be accessed either by collection name or by the geographical region(s) to which the material relates.

Institute of Germanic Studies (London)
contains information about collections from individuals and organisations which provide an insight into both the history and progress of Germanic studies in the UK.

Institute of Historical Research (London)
contains information about the Public Record Office that is not currently available elsewhere. Also provides links to Bodleian Library (Oxford) and Guildhall Library Manuscripts section (the City of London).

Institution of Civil Engineers
very sleek site provides information about the Institution, its library and its archives. It also holds material about numerous historical engineers including the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, James Brindley, George and Robert Stephenson and Thomas Telford.

Institution of Electrical Engineers
details not only its own archives, but also those of deposited collections relating to Michael Faraday and Sir Francis Ronalds, and its collection of photographs, prints and drawings, with information about the National Archive for Electrical Science and Technology. There is also a link to its Library online catalogue.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers
contains information including a detailed guide about its collections relating to the Institute and the development of mechanical engineering.

Jersey Archives Service
contains summary information about the archives, including details of its holdings relating to the occupation 1940-1945, and material deposited by the State of Jersey Education Department

John Rylands University Library (University of Manchester)
contains information about its manuscript and printed book collections, including the Methodist Archives and Research Centre. It also has pages about current and forthcoming exhibitions and a WWW version of the John Rylands Research Institute's Newsletter which highlights work in progress and recent acquisitions.

Resources for Genealogists in Kent
contains information, including opening hours, details of genealogical and other resources and notes for visitors, for the Centre for Kentish Studies, Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Rochester upon Medway Studies Centre.

University of Kent at Canterbury
contains summary information about a number of its collections, including its theatre collections, the Weatherill Papers and material relating to wind and watermills

King's College, Cambridge
The Modern Archive Centre holds a number of collections relating to literature, fine art and economics of the early twentieth century, including some of the Bloomsbury artists; the writer E.M. Forster; the poet T.S. Eliot and the economist J.M. Keynes. Summary information is available from a list of its main collections.

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough
contains a series of pages detailing the sources held for those tracing their family history and an innovative Local History website containing over 600 photographs from its collections.

Lancashire Record Office
contains details about the office, its opening hours and a brief introduction to its holdings.

Liddell Hart Centre for Miltary Archives (Kings College, London)
contains descriptions of the archives held and access to detailed catalogues to some of the collections.

Lincolnshire Archives
contains an introduction to the record office and its holdings including details of its family history enquiry service. A list of Australian convicts (1787-1840) taken from its collections arranged alphabetically by surname.

Liverpool City Record Office
contains a summary of its main holdings and notes regarding access to the records.

Liverpool University
contains details of the main collections held by the University, including the Social Work archives the Cunard Line the Glasier Papers and the Gypsy Collections. It also contains a very useful summary of the Archives on Merseyside produced by the Merseyside Archives Liaison Group, detailing each repository and their main collections.

London Metropolitan Archives
contains information about its services - including Family History Research; Enquiry Service and Reprographics. Also contains a series of leaflets which can be downloaded.

Greater Manchester County Record Office
contains information about the office, a guide to its collections and detailed information about the genealogical records that they hold. It also has a link to a very useful guide to repositories in Greater Manchester and the Documentary Photography Archive.

Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex
contains background information about the mass observation project, details of its holdings, access to the archive and publications produced by, and based-on the archive. In addition to this there is now the ability to search the File Report catalogue and to contribute to the current work of the project

Middle East Centre, (Oxford)
contains general information about the library and archives, its opening hours, access, etc along with a Guide to the Private Papers Collection.

Modern Records Centre (Warwick)
contains information about its opening hours, its collecting policy, its holdings and its publications. A Summary Guide relating to its holdings of trade union records, employers' organisations, pressure groups and political parties are currently accessible and can now be searched

National Archives of Scotland
a prototype site is now available - a more complete version will be launched on 30th November (St Andrew's Day)

National Archive for the History of Computing (University of Manchester)
contains information about the NAHC, who are attempting to produce a list of records relating to the history of computing in Britain and to encourage their preservation. There is a detailed catalogue to its manuscript and photographic holdings.

National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists
The NCUACS specialises in listing the material and arranging for their deposit in a suitable national or local repository. This site contains lists of the collections they have worked-upon arranged chronologically, alphabetically and by subject.

National Gas Archive
contains a history of the gas industry, a summary guide to its collections along with details of the supporting material held and its photographic archive .

Natural History Museum (London)
contains details of its extensive library holdings, with its catalogue accessible through telnet. Also worth a look are its images from its picture library .

National Library of Scotland
contains information about the library and details about its collections and a number of exhibits including an early map of Scotland.

National Library of Wales
contains summary information about its collections arranged alphabetically and by type of record .

National Maritime Museum (London)
Amongst the Museum's excellent pages is this one highlighting the opportunities for research at the National Maritime Museum including its manuscripts, photographs and artefacts.

National Railway Museum
contains summary information about the Jack Simmons Library and Archive.

National Register of Archives (Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts)
contains detailed information on the activities of the Historical Manuscripts Commission, including the Manorial Documents Register. A telnet link to the NRA indexes (login as "public") allows searches on its Personal, Business and Organisations indexes. There is a thematic digest of its 1994 acquisitions and a guide to its 1995 acquisitions which is arranged by repository. It also contains a number of links to other repositories.

NatWest and NatWest Group Archives
contains an illustrated history relating to the development of banking in England and Wales, information regarding the foundation and establishment of the NatWest bank and an outline of some of the archival material held.

Newcastle University Library
contains an introduction to over seventy of its manuscript and book collections held in the library. There are also details of its HEFCE projects which include work on the Gertrude Bell and Runciman Papers.

Norfolk Record Office
contians a brief outline of its main records held, along with information and maps for visitors.

Northamptonshire Record Office
contains a brief summary about the record office and how to get there, and a copy of the annual report for 1995-1996.

North West Film Archive
contains details about the NWFA, based at Manchester Metropolitan University, and its collections of over 25,000 reels of film and videotape dating back to 1897. The site includes a database of its holdings which can be searched by subject, keyword or date.

University of Nottingham (Dept of Manuscripts and Archives)
contains a detailed introduction to its holdings including the D.H. Lawrence collection and its large collection of personal and estate records, including many described at collection level; it also contains descriptions of its current projects funded by HEFCE.

Nottinghamshire Archives
contains a summary of the archives held, and an outline of useful sources for family historians

Oxford University Archives
contains a historical note about the University archives and a list of its catalogues, there is also a link to Ashmolean Museum Beazley Archive

Planned Environment Therapy Trust
A small archive and study centre devoted to therapeutic communities and the therapeutic community approach to problem solving in penal, psychiatric, educational, and other settings. The site contains a summary introduction highlighting its main collections, with work in progress and latest accessions outlined in the newsletter.

Post Office Archives and Record Services
contains information about the archives and its holdings, along with a very detailed guide to the key sources for family historians.

Powys County Archives Office
contains information about their holdings with guides to material relating to Brecknockshire , Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire. It has also mounted two on-line resources from an Electronic Imaging Project. It also includes details of sources for family history and the history of your house.

Public Record Office
revamped and redesigned site containing a wealth of information including useful advice on planning a visit. A good starting point for many will be the Records Information Leaflets it also has links to its pilot online catalogues PROcat and its bookshop.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (Belfast)
contains details of the records it holds and provides answers to some common questions along with information regarding access, photocopying and copyright.

Royal Society Library and Archives
contains a summary of its resources for the history of science since 1660 when the Society was founded.

Rural History Centre (Reading)
contains a background history of the Centre and basic information about its location, opening hours and its holdings.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
contains summary details of its library and archive collections.

St Andrews University
contains brief descriptions of the manuscript, rare books and photograph collections. A more detailed information is available for those with an Adobe Acrobat reader. There is also a telnet link to its MSSA catalogue (login as mssa).

St Hilda's College Archive, Oxford
contains a history of both the college and its archive. It also contains links to Internet Resources for Historians and for Women's Studies

Save the Children archives
contains a detailed history of the organisation and an informative breakdown of its archival holdings.

School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London)
contains an on-line guide providing summary information about its collections which number over 170. They include those of the historian R.W. Seton-Watson (1879-1951), G.D. Naci (1907-1992) the private secretary to King Zog of Albania and the photograph albums of Countess Brasova (1888-1952) the sister-in-law of the last Tsar of Russia.

School of Oriental and African Studies
contains a useful summary of its holdings, information about its reprographics services and an image gallery.

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Stratford)
contains information about the records held by the Trust and its library in collections relate to all aspects of Shakespearian study including pictures, videos and some early printed books along with the archives of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Sheffield University Library
contains details of the work of the Hartlib project on the papers of the seventeenth century polymath Samuel Hartlib, whose extensive collection comprises his working papers, correspondence and diaries.

Shropshire Records and Research Centre
contains information about the office and its holdings.

Somerset Record Office
The first local government repository to establish a series of pages on the Internet. Contains a guide to tracing your family history in the Somerset Record Office highlighting the main types of records including parish registers, the census and wills and how they can be used. It also provides a list of books which provide a general introduction to family history and some more specific texts.

Southampton University Library
contains an Introductory Guide to its holdings which are particularly strong in areas of nineteenth and twentieth century political and military history, and archives of Anglo-Jewry. There is a very useful guide to Sources for research. The University holds the collections relating to the First Duke of Wellington and those of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a database of index terms used in cataloguing the Mountbatten papers is now also available.

Strathclyde University archives
contains a brief history of the University, and information about its main holdings, includes a detailed guide to the papers of Sir Patrick Geddes.

Suffolk Record Office
contains an introduction to its main collections at each of its three sites, along with a series of images from its picture gallery and an update of its use of CALM 2000

Surrey History Services
contains a number of information leaflets including notes for family historians, Non-conformist records and details about the Local Studies Library with contact details about the Surrey Record Office. There is also a search-form allowing direct access to its archives database.

University of Sussex Manuscript Collections
contains searchable details of over sixty collections housed in the University Library, of particular note are those relating to the Bloomsbury Group, and to Rudyard Kipling. It also has collections which cover the Sciences, Social Sciences and the history of the University itself. Also of interest are the Library's its rare book collections.

Sutton Archive & Local Studies
contains summary information about the Borough's collections.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge
contains guides, accessible alphabetically or by subject, to both its early manuscript and rare book collections and to its archive and modern manuscript collections which include amongst others the papers of Sir Isaac Newton, Alfred Tennyson, A.A. Milne and R.A. Butler.

Tyne and Wear Archives Service
Informative site containing a large number of user guides on a wide range of subjects including parish registers, church records, medicine, schools, and shipbuilding. It also details its research service.

University College London
contains a directory of its collections with summary descriptions, although.some collections including the George Orwell archive, the Bentham Collection and the Little Magazines collection and Poetry store are described in more detail.

University of Wales, Swansea Archive
contains summary information about its various local collections and details about its South Wales Coalfield Archive project.

Uttoxeter History
new site designed to provide a database of information about the history of Uttoxeter & District and also to enable people to research their own family histories and provide information towards family trees etc.

Warwickshire County Record Office
contains general information about the repository with further information for those trying to trace their ancestors.

Wellcome Institute Library
contains summary information about the library and its collections, including the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre and details about its Medical Photographic Library

West Yorkshire Archives Service
contains information for researchers including sources for the family historian and information about it's IT projects, along with summary descriptions of the collections at each of the district offices at Wakefield (HQ), Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Leeds, and details of the records of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society

Wolverhampton Archives & Local Studies
contains information about the archives and local history resources including a number of pamphlets to sources which can be downloaded.

Worcestershire Record Office
this site contains a brief overview of its collections with maps and details concerning the location of the repositories.

University of York Special Collections
contains summary information about the various collections held at the University, which also hosts the extensive series of pages relating to the collections at the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research. There are also summary notes about the collections relating to York Minster Library and a brief history.