LSE Archives holds around 2½km of archive material, mainly dating from the late 19th century onwards. Such material consists of over 1500 separate collections, ranging in size from a folder to hundreds of boxes of documents. The collections cover a wide variety of topics supporting research across the social sciences. For more details, see our Guide to holdings.

This online catalogue contains collection-level descriptions relating to almost all of our holdings. In addition, many collections have been listed in more detail: for a list of these see our completed catalogues page.

Use the Quick Catalogue Search facility to search across titles and descriptions in the catalogue. For more advanced searches, including searches for particular persons/organisations and places, you can use the Advanced Search options. You can find more information about searching the catalogue on the Help pages.

Information about digitised written documents available via this catalogue is on the Showcase page.

Currently the Image Gallery highlights those collections which contain visual material, such as photographs and posters.

As well as archives, we hold a further 1km of historic print material, consisting of 15,000 rare books and 90,000 pamphlets. Please note that this material is listed on the Library catalogue.