Germanic Collections
Senate House Library is home to one of the UK’s leading collections for the study of Germanic languages and cultures.
Subject Librarian: Andrea Meyer Ludowisy
Email: Andrea.Meyerludowisy@london.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7862 8969
Collection Description
Senate House Library is home to one of the UK’s leading collections for the study of Germanic languages and cultures. Broad in scope, the collection supports research across the full spectrum of Germanic-speaking regions, with particular emphasis on Western Germanic languages such as German, Dutch, and Yiddish.
Resources include medieval texts, canonical authors, contemporary literature, and historical-critical editions, as well as an extensive range of secondary criticism and theoretical works.
The Germanic collections are especially valuable for interdisciplinary research, offering rich materials for scholars of philosophy, history, gender studies, exile studies, and visual culture.
Locating and accessing material
The best way to start finding history resources at Senate House Library is to use the catalogue.
The language collections are located on the 5th floor. New acquisitions for the collections are shelved in the Periodicals Room on the 4th floor. Books and journals held in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the fetch service on the catalogue.
Find collection locations through
Ebooks can be found by searching the .
E-resources and databases for history are listed on the on our LibGuides platform.
Special collections and archive material must be and consulted in the special collections reading room. Some of these collections are available as part of our e-Resources. They can be found on our list of on our LibGuides platform.