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Senate House Library

Subject guides

Discover and navigate the amazing richness of our collections with our expert subject guides

Select a specific theme for further information, to contact a Librarian, or to schedule an online meeting.

Browse the subject guides

Art and Art History

The Art collection provides rich material for students and scholars across the humanities.

Commonwealth Studies

The library holds outstanding Commonwealth related material, offering an exceptional opportunity to study its continuing development and history.

Digital Humanities

Explore the libary's resources for digital humanities

English

Discover our extensive, varied, and sometimes surprising, collections of English language literature available in numerous formats and editions.

Environmental Humanities

Explore the library's collections to study and research Environmental Humanities

Exile, Migration and Cultural Memory

Explore diverse materials in literature, philosophy, history, music, and visual culture, reflecting how exilic figures have created new modes of expression and resistance

Germanic Collections

Senate House Library is home to one of the UK’s leading collections for the study of Germanic languages and cultures.

History

Discover one of the foremost collections in the UK supporting studying and researching history.

Latin American Studies

The Library holds a unique collection of printed, archives and electronic material on Latin America and the Caribbean linked to CLACS at SAS.

Music

Senate House Library’s Music Collections support the study of music from the early modern period to the present.

Palaeography, Manuscript and Book Studies

Explore over 1000 years of the creation, use and dissemination of manuscripts, documents, books and print media.

The paranormal, the occult and the magical

Discover the strange and unexpected: traditions of belief, practice and investigation in the occult, unexplained and magical.

Philosophy

Explore the Senate House Library’s extensive Philosophy collection

Psychology

Explore our Psychology Library, a premier national resource for the study of psychology, incorporating the library of the British Psychological Society

Romance Language Collections

Senate House Library offers a wide-ranging and globally relevant collection in the Romance languages

Social Sciences

Explore our considerable holdings across three large subject collections covering Sociology, Politics and Economics, and several smaller collections

United States Studies

Explore our interdisciplinary collections for researching the history, institutions and culture of the United States