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 89 KB) or (PDF 352 KB)
- Chamberlain family resource guide
- Chamberlain sisters: Beatrice, Ida, Hilda, and Ethel resource guide: (DOC 995 KB) or (PDF 281 KB)
- Church Mission Society research guide: (DOC 10,619 KB) or (PDF 5,127 KB)
- Cricket books resource guide
- Disability History resource guide
- LGBTQ resource guide
- Mason Science College: (DOC 1,597 KB) or (PDF 731 KB)
- Medieval manuscripts: (DOC 1,604 KB) or (PDF 324 KB)
- History of medicine: (DOC 115,347 KB) or (PDF 1544 KB)
- National Athletics: (DOC 3,623 KB) or (PDF 455 KB)
- Olympic Games: (DOC 7,570 KB) or (PDF 784 KB)
- Save the Children Fund archive guide (PDF 4,034 KB)
- Theatre and drama: (DOCX 101 KB) or (PDF 301 KB)
- Toc H archive: (DOC 3,400 KB) or (PDF 545 KB)
- University of Birmingham Guild of Students
- University of Birmingham student accommodation: (DOC 2,384 KB) or (PDF 942 KB)
- West Midlands history, archival resources: (DOC 9,753 KB) or (PDF 597 KB)
- Women's history resource guide: (DOC 150 KB) or (PDF 571 KB)
- World War One, archival resources: (DOC 30,072 KB) or (PDF 1,445 KB)
- World War Two, archive resources: (DOC 8,576 KB) or (PDF 598 KB)
- YHA and YMCA resource guide (PDF 368 KB)