- Archive directories
- Bataillard gypsy collection
- Books on local history
- Businesses
- Census records
- Commonwealth Games 2002
- Ethnic minorities
- First World War
- Historical maps
- Historical newspapers
- Immigration records and passenger lists
- Jewish records
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) history
- Manchester bomb 1996 and the city's regeneration
- Manchester regiment
- Nazi collection
- Parliamentary papers
- Photographs and posters
- Poor Law, workhouses and industrial schools
- Second World War
- Sound archive