- Alexander Ireland collection
- Bellot Chinese collection
- Broadside Ballads
- Chapbooks
- Coleridge collection
- De Quincey collection
- Early children's books
- Fuller collection
- Gaskell collection
- Gleave Brontë collection
- Henry Watson music library
- Shorthand
- Sound archive
- Sutton Witchcraft collection
- Theatre collections
- Tracts