The Uni­ver­si­ty Archive was set up in 1977 to pre­serve the records of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leeds and its pre­de­ces­sors the York­shire Col­lege of Sci­ence, York­shire Col­lege, and Leeds Med­ical School.

The records date from 1831 to the present day and are held in paper and dig­i­tal format.

They active­ly col­lect mate­r­i­al in order to pre­serve the mem­o­ry of the insti­tu­tion and pro­vide an evi­dence base for its activity.

The Uni­ver­si­ty Archive catalogue

The Leeds Uni­ver­si­ty Archive cat­a­logue con­tains over 9000 records and is arranged into twelve sub-collections.

There are records for:

Com­mit­tee

Admin­is­tra­tive

Aca­d­e­m­ic

Oth­er depart­men­tal services

staff, stu­dents and oth­er indi­vid­u­als with close per­son­al asso­ci­a­tions to the University.

They also have large col­lec­tions of plans, draw­ings and pho­tographs that give insight into cam­pus devel­op­ment and life.