Library Special Collections
- Local history collections (for the Centre for English Local History), including:
- Thomas Hatton (1876–1943) was a successful local businessman whose collection of nearly 2,000 books on English local history was donated to the Library of Leicester College in 1920. This was one of the first major donations to the Library.
The library also holds a number of collections containing items written by several famous writers, these include:
- Joe Orton Collection. Joe Orton (1933–1967) was a Leicester-born playwright, the collection contains his manuscripts and correspondence.
- Laura Riding Letters. The collected correspondence of the American poet and critic Laura Riding (1901–1991).
- Sue Townsend Collection. The personal papers of Sue Townsend (born 1946). The collection contains Townsend's literary correspondence and notebooks detailing her works.
- Archives of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism.
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