These subject and resource guides provide details of our archive and rare book collections for specified topics, which are an excellent starting point for research.
If you know of material held at the Cadbury Research Library that could be added to our resource guides, or you'd like to suggest a theme for a new guide, please email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk
- Black History resource guide: (DOC 143KB) or (PDF 299KB)
- Chamberlain family resource guide
- Chamberlain sisters: Beatrice, Ida, Hilda, and Ethel resource guide: (DOC 995KB) or (PDF 281KB)
- Church Missionary Society research guide: (DOC 12,976KB) or (PDF 7,246KB)
- Cricket books resource guide
- Disability History resource guide
- LGBTQ resource guide
- Mason Science College: (DOC 1,597KB) or (PDF 731KB)
- Medieval manuscripts: (DOC 1,604KB) or (PDF 324KB)
- History of medicine: (DOC 115,347KB) or (PDF 1544KB)
- National Athletics: (DOC 3,623KB) or (PDF 455KB)
- Olympic Games: (DOC 7,570KB) or (PDF 784KB)
- Save the Children Fund archive guide (PDF 4,034KB)
- Theatre and drama: (DOCX 101KB) or (PDF 301KB)
- Toc H archive: (DOC 3,400KB) or (PDF 545KB)
- University of Birmingham Guild of Students
- University of Birmingham student accommodation: (DOC 2,384KB) or (PDF 942KB)
- West Midlands history, archival resources: (DOC 9,754KB) or (PDF 1,000KB)
- World War One, archival resources: (DOC 30,072KB) or (PDF 1,445KB)
- World War Two, archive resources: (DOC 8,576KB) or (PDF 598KB)
- YHA and YMCA resource guide (PDF 368KB)
- Further archives and material held at other University of Birmingham libraries.