The guides below highlight some outstanding themes but are not intended to be exhaustive. They complement the Archives Catalogue, which includes a subject search facility.
- Apartheid archives
- Coins and counterfeiting
- Education
- Friendly societies
- Historians’ papers
- History of the Book
- Literary archives
- Music
- Pacifism
- Palaeography and medieval archives
- Psychic investigations, the paranormal and magic
- Slavery
- Temperance
- Theatre and drama
- Trotskyism
- United States of America