www.imeche.org/library-archive

Founded in 1847, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is a learned society and membership organisation representing mechanical engineers. The Institution strives to improve the world through engineering by developing engineers, promoting engineering, informing opinion and encouraging innovation.

The archive collection includes the records of the Institution and records of mechanical engineers and engineering firms providing a perspective on the history of the Institution and the history of mechanical engineering.

Online archive catalogue: http://archivecat.imeche.org/calmview/

Virtual Archive: https://archives.imeche.org/

Vision: for the UK to be a world leader in technology for education and research

Mission: to power and empower our members with the technology and data they need to succeed

Our learning and research resources support UK academics, teachers, students and researchers by providing access to a wide range of learning and research resources and content services.

The Archives Hub enables you to search across the archives held at over 350 institutions across the UK. It covers most UK universities, many specialist repositories, national, local authority, museum and business archives, and includes physical and digital archives.  Search for specific materials, search by name and topic, or browse and take advantage of the huge potential for serendipitous discovery.  

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/

The Historical Texts and Journal Archives services deliver high quality digitised content for research, learning and teaching, in a way that enables cross-searching of collections and supports discovery and access. Historical Texts provides access to almost half a million digitised historic books, from the birth of printing in England to the early twentieth century. Journal Archives contains over five and a half million facsimile articles, more than half as part of the British Periodicals collection of publications from the nineteenth century or earlier, and the rest from scholarly journals across a wide range of subject areas.

https://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/

https://journalarchives.jisc.ac.uk/

Library Hub Discover allows you to quickly discover and locate material across the holdings of 172 UK national, academic, and specialist libraries. A freely available service to help you find what you need for your research, learning, and teaching, including Open Access material you can use immediately online.

https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/

The British Association for the Advancement of Science: Collections on the History of Science 1830s-1970s is a new digital archive that brings together under one roof about 1m pages of manuscripts, papers, images, maps and correspondence of important scientists drawn from the BAAS and over 10 UK universities. The digital archive is free to all UK Jisc members thanks to a collaboration between Jisc and Wiley.

https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/catalogue/2442

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/special-collections

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives

Online exhibitions: https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/home

Archives and Special Collections blog: https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/kingscollections/

Storymaps exhibition by a recent Archives intern: https://bit.ly/3vGig4u

King’s Libraries offer a huge multidisciplinary information resource base including over 1.2 million printed books and ebooks; more than 60,000 journals, reference tools, statistical data, official publications, maps, music scores, multimedia resources, photographs and manuscripts, as well as Archives (5 million items) and Special Collections of international standing.

Digital Scholarship https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/digital-scholarship

UK Medical Heritage Library project https://archive.org/details/kingscollegelondon

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/history-and-heritage/london-metropolitan-archives

Located in Clerkenwell, London Metropolitan Archives is home to an amazing range of documents, images, maps, films and books which chart your London history from 1067 to today.

Whether you’re tracing your family history or researching the history of your neighbourhood, if you’re interested in London or Londoners, it is the place to visit!

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/library-archives-service/archives

The LSHTM Archives hold documents, letters, photographs, maps, publications and objects relating to tropical and infectious diseases and public health issues. Collections date from the mid-nineteenth century. The Archives also includes material on the history and development of the School since its foundation in 1899.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

The National Archives is a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales. We are the guardians of over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. The records reflect the culture and heritage within Britain since the 11th century.

Alongside the rich archival holdings of The National Archives there is a large, comprehensive and interesting research library that is accessible to all. It contains thousands of printed and online sources that compliment and support research into the archives.

https://wellcomecollection.org/

Located on Euston Road, Wellcome Collection features permanent and temporary exhibitions, as well as the Library. The subjects covered include: spiritualism, sexology, climate, anatomy, herbals, psychology, addiction, diet, pain and disease. The items are part of a global collection around the broad topic of health and the human condition.  We house an eclectic art collection featuring Goya, Van Gogh, Yinka Shonibare and art created by patients.

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