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What collections do we have

Archives and Local Studies have countless hundreds of thousands of items which amount to almost 10 kilometres of books and documents. We can’t provide full details of all of these here. However, we have produced some factsheets on the most popular types of information.

Please contact us at archives@sheffield.gov.uk if you have queries about these, or to ask us if we have other items relevant to your research.

Aerial photographs
Adoption Records
Births, Marriages and Deaths
Bishops Transcripts
Burgess rolls see Electoral Registers
Cemetery registers
Census returns
Coroners records
Court records see County Court, Magistrates Court and Quarter Sessions
Edward Carpenter Collection
Electoral registers
Ephemera
Gravestones see Monumental Inscriptions
Hospitals
Magistrates Court
Maps – Ordnance Survey
Maps - Town & County
Monumental Inscriptions
National Health Service
Newspapers
Non-Conformist Chapel Registers
Obituaries and Death Notices
Ordnance Survey Maps see Maps – Ordnance Survey
Parish registers
Petty sessions see Magistrates Court
Photographs
Planning records
Police Force Records
Poll books
Poor Law Unions see Workhouses
Probate records
Probate registers
Quarter Sessions
Rate Books
Roman Catholic Church Registers
Sale Particulars
Schools
Trade directories
Wills see Probate and Probate Registers
Workhouses