Research facilities

The School of English provides access to excellent facilities for conducting your research.

Western Bank
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The Western Bank Library is the main library for research students. There are holdings on Restoration drama, social and political caricatures from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, artists’ and private press books, and avant-garde poetry pamphlets from the 1950s to the present day. Holdings also include the Jack Rosenthal Drama Scripts Collection, the Barry Hines Collection, and the papers of the poet Peter Redgrove and book collections such as the Holocaust Collection and the Left Book Club Collection. 

The Library

Special collections

Study space for PhD students

In addition to the over 4,000 study spaces in our three main libraries, the School has its own dedicated PhD student workspaces with hot desks and access to networked computers, or the option to use your own laptop, and printers.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities Graduate School Centre

The Graduate School Centre is a brand new, exclusive study and social space for Postgraduate Researchers in the faculty. It is located in the heart of the campus, in Jessop West.

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