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BBC Heritage Collection

The British Broadcasting Company was established in October 1922 as a private enterprise and was renamed in 1927 as the British Broadcasting Corporation as it moved to a public service model.

Daily Herald Archive

The Daily Herald, established in 1911 as a socialist daily, was once the world’s largest selling newspaper.

Monotype Corporation Collection

The Monotype Corporation made the printed word far easier to produce by mechanising the process of casting and composing metal type for printing.

Stephen Hawking’s Office

The entire contents of the last office of Stephen Hawking in Cambridge University, and associated awards, documents, mobility and communications equipment.

The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers - founded in London by Royal Charter in 1631 - began assembling its collection of clocks, watches and extraordinary objects in 1814, and continues to do so to…

Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

American-born pharmacist and philanthropist Sir Henry Wellcome assembled over one and a half million historical objects and books relating to the history of medicine from around the world.

Kodak Collection

Assembled from 1927 onwards, the Kodak Museum Collection contains around 10,000 items of photographic and cine equipment dating from around 1820 to the present.

Pollock Pipe Collection

The Manchester clay tobacco pipe manufacturer John Pollock & Co was founded by Edward Pollock in 1879 and operated across three generations of the family.

Jane and Howard Ricketts Collection

The Jane and Howard Ricketts Collection consists of prints, albums, ephemera and objects assembled by Howard and Jane Ricketts.

Arthur Frank Collection

The Arthur Frank Collection contains a selection of cameras, photographic lenses and related equipment.

Lancashire Coal Mining Collection

Transferred from Salford Museum and Art Gallery, the Lancashire Coal Mining Collection includes hand tools, safety equipment, personal items and machinery used by miners of the Lancashire coalfields…

Andor Kraszna Krausz Collection

Born in Szombathely, Hungary in 1904, Andor Kraszna-Krausz came to England in 1937 as a refugee and founded Focal Press in 1938 to publish affordable, practical guides to photography.

Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection

Assembled between 1945 and 1980, this collection brings together the work of makeup artists Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey, whose pencil sketches, photographs, prosthetics, sculptures, make-up materials…

Buckingham Movie Museum/John Burgoyne-Johnson Collection

National Archive of Railway Oral History

The National Archive of Railway Oral History (NAROH) holds over a thousand hours of recordings capturing the stories of people who worked on Britain's railways.

Thames Collection

The Thames Collection comprises historic television cameras acquired from Thames Television plc.

Zoltan Glass Collection

Photographer Zoltan Glass began his career as a cartoonist and retoucher in 1925 before moving into photography in the early 1930s and later establishing the Zoltan Glass Studio in Chelsea, London.

Tony Ray-Jones Collection

The archive of British photographer Tony Ray-Jones is held at the National Science and Media Museum and includes approximately 700 black and white prints, 1,700 rolls of 35mm film, 2,700 contact…

Silberrad Glassware Collection

The Silberrad Glassware Collection contains over 300 items of laboratory glassware from the Silberrad Research Laboratories, founded by industrial chemist Oswald Silberrad in 1907 at his home in…

McLachlan Glassware Collection

The McLachlan Glassware Collection contains over 200 items of chemical laboratory glassware from the laboratory of Thomas McLachlan and Partners at 4 Hanway Place, London, which operated until 1973.

John Jones Collection

The John Jones Collection contains magic lantern slides, including around 2,600 slides across 182 sets originally produced by Riley Brothers of Bradford, assembled by collector John Jones.

Feroze Sarosh Collection

The Feroze Sarosh Collection comprises film technology including cine cameras, projectors and mechanisms dated between 1895 and 1940, assembled by collector Feroze Sarosh.

Sir Francis Layland-Barratt Collection

Ronald G. W. Norrish’s Laboratory

This collection preserves the contents of the garden shed chemical laboratory in Cambridge belonging to Ronald G.

EMI Collection

The EMI Collection consists of business ephemera and photographs relating to the company EMI and the development of television.