Salford Digital Archives
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Find something new today. From photos to literary manuscripts, Salford Digital Archives provides access to a wide selection of unique original material for you to explore. We are growing our content offer, always looking for new opportunities to work in partnership to surface and bring rare and otherwise hidden archive content to new audiences online.
Worsley New Hall
Discover a wonderful array of artefacts relating to the Hall.
Mike Craig Archive
Mike Craig wrote sketches for some of the greats of British comedy.
University Photographic Collection
Photographs covering the changing times at the University.
Bridgewater Department Photographic Collection
Get an insight into the workings of the Bridgewater Canal during the first half of the 20th century.
Working Class Movement Library Collection
A range of digitised photographs from circa 1910 to 1980.
Richard Badnall Papers
Letters and documents about the invention of an undulating railway between 1832 and 1836.
Brass Band News
A unique and unrivalled resource for the history of brass bands and brass banding activities across the United Kingdom between 1881 and 1958.
Stanley Houghton Collection
Hindle Wakes was controversial for its portrayal of a mill girl who chooses independence rather than marriage to the mill owner's son who has made her pregnant.
University Audio-Visual Collection
Footage from events at the University filmed between 1950 and 2000.
University estate plans and drawings
A curated collection of plans and architectural drawings relating to the University of Salford and its precursor, the Royal College of Advanced Technology, dating from c1950 to 1976.
Students' Union Archive
The Archive reveals what's been occupying our students' minds throughout the years.
Vikas Shah Archive
In his interviews with the people shaping our century, including conversations with Nobel Prize winners, business leaders, politicians, artists and Olympians, Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL has been in the privileged position of questioning the minds that matter on the big issues that concern us all.
Walter Greenwood Collection
A curated collection of unpublished manuscripts of novels, plays and film scripts, published first editions and photographs.
Salford Parks Report Books
A set of report books dating from 1874 through to 1967 detailing the work and activities of the Head Gardeners and Park Superintendents for the city of Salford.
Arthur Hopcraft Papers
Well known for his TV plays such as The Nearly Man, and for his small screen adaptations such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Hard Times and Bleak House, Arthur Hopcraft is the focus for this digital collection which is curated from our physical collection.
Harold Brighouse Collection
Harold Brighouse was an English playwright and author born in Eccles, Salford in 1882. His most successful and well-known play was Hobson’s Choice, a comedy about gender and social class conventions which premiered in New York in 1915.
Duke of Bridgewater Archive
Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803) enabled the construction of England’s first true canal from Worsley to Manchester and Salford for transporting coal from his mines to market.
Maxwell Hall Archive
The University hosts a music venue with a rich history.
