The Special Collections Blog brings you news of developments, exhibitions and events in Special Collections. It also highlights treasures from our collections.

Digital Special Collections & Archives provides access to selected series from various manuscript and discrete book collections in Special Collections & Archives. Collections include rare music manuscripts, medieval fragments and selections from our Chinese and Jewish collections. 

Our exhibitions web page features a number of online exhibitions curated by Special Collections staff and Queen's academics. Topics include Thomas Moore, Children's literature, Somerville & Ross and Sir Robert Hart. 

ACLS Humanities E-Book Project (HEB) is a digital collection of over 5400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences. These titles are presented in collaboration with more than 120 publishers and Michigan Publishing. Books in the HEB collection have been recommended and reviewed by scholars and constituent learned societies of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Developed in cooperation with Queen's University Belfast, the Ireland Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of materials from and about Ireland. When complete, it will contain a minimum of 75 journals, including journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years and ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Over 200 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages will also be included.

The North China Herald is the prime printed source for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to 1940s. No other newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety. 

World War had a significant and long-lasting impact on the University. Many staff, students and the local community joined the University's Officer Training Corps and fought in the war.

The Queen's and World War One exhibition offers an insight into those times and provides access to research resources. 

RASCAL is an electronic gateway to research resources relating to Ireland. The site can be used to search or browse information about a wide range of research and special collections held in libraries, museums and archives in Ireland and abroad.

Special Collections & Archives hold a large number of subject areas including Ulster, Ireland, History, Politics, Economics, Theology, Philosophy, Literature and Language. Our subject guides highlight key subject strengths within our collections and give an overview of the resources within that subject area. 

The University Archive Catalogue is structured to reflect the work of Queen's College Belfast, the Queen's University of Ireland, the Royal University of Ireland and the Queen's University of Belfast.

The Book of Remembrance is an illuminated bound volume in manuscript which records the names of the members of Queen's University and its Officers' Training Corps and Air Squadron who died on active service during World War One and World War Two.  Please contact us for further information on accessing this resource.