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Whitby Museum Full of amazing treasures
Whitby Museum is unusual and quite wonderful! Revealing the life of our historic coastal town from the Jurassic era to the present day, our collections are fascinating – even quirky. Come and see our fossils, our costumes, our model ships and our curiosities for yourself. Whatever your age, whatever your interests, Whitby Museum is a precious treasure trove.
Then wander into the Hugh Kendall Reading Room - wall-to-wall cabinets filled with books to fulfil a vicarious moment, satisfy historical research, or delve into our archive that is stacked high with Whitby historical collections!
Have you ever thought about looking into your family history? We have a wealth of resources to support your search including volunteers that can guide you through Find My Past and Ancestry.com. The cabinets are filled with books and documents including parish registers, pre-prepared family trees, detailed maps and books that can provide information about buildings, streets and yards in Whitby and surrounding villagers. To compliment your search access the Digital Whitby Gazette – here you will lose yourself in articles and stories; sending you down rabbit holes unearthing the past.
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Women Artists of the General Post Office This gallery explores the works of twelve of the General Post Office's resident poster artists
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Women Rediscovered: Denbigh, Gwyneth/ Ann Owen, The Mothers This video tells the story of two women's experiences of postpartum psychosis
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Women’s History Month 2025: Celebrating Women’s Voices in the IHR Collections This blog was written by Sarah Admans, graduate trainee librarian at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Wohl Library 2024/25. It has been curated in celebration of Women’s History Month 2025.
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Working-Class History A guide to researching working-class history in our collections.
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World AIDS Day 2024 Blog on World AIDS Day 2024 which highlights material from the eight HIV and AIDS collections at LSHTM including the NAZ London Project
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Yale University Press London Visit our stand and sign up to our history email newsletter and take away a free book!
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York Army Museum We hold the collections and archives for the Royal Dragoon Guards and the Royal Yorkshire Regiment and their antecedent regiments - telling our soldiers' stories through over 300 years of military history from 1685 to the present day.
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Yorkshire and North East Film Archive The Yorkshire and North East Film Archive is a unique pan-regional resource which comprises 75,000 reels of film, video, and digital content capturing life in Yorkshire and the North East over the past 135 years.
At the heart of our Collection are films made by, and for, local people which reflect the diversity of the people living in our communities, conveying a strong sense of place and regional identity in a way only moving pictures can. The films reflect multiple aspects of life in the region from the 1890s to the present day, documenting major changes in employment, industry, culture, leisure, and the changing landscape and architecture of Yorkshire and the North East of England.
As a registered charity, our work is to collect, preserve, and make these extraordinary collections accessible for everyone.
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Zoological Society of London ZSL Library contains a wide range of books and journals on all types of animals and their conservation. It has:
More than 200,000 volumes
5000 journal titles, 1300 of which are current
Free wireless internet access
Document supply and copying services
Archives of ZSL
Books dating from 16th century to the present, ranging from popular to technical
Holdings located on-site
Modern books on open access in our Reading Room
Special collection relating to information on zoos
The ZSL drawings and prints collection
Image collection
Collection on the impacts of climate change