Goldsmiths' Library Subject Coverage
Supplementary Collections
| Reform Club Pamphlets | Sabatier Collection | Temperance Collection |
| Sheffield Collection | Rastrick Collection | Family Welfare Association Library |
Reform Club Pamphlets
Bought from the Reform Club in 1964, comprising most of the pamphlets then in the Club's Library, except the Panizzi collection. Consists of 360 volumes containing 4,000 pamphlets on political, economic and social subjects (1770-1910, but mostly pre-1880).
Sabatier Collection
The first of a series of major additions to the Goldsmiths' Library funded by the Goldsmiths' Company, bought in 1906. Contains c. 1000 books and pamphlets on French monetary history, especially during the revolutionary period but extending from 1651 to 1852
Temperance Collection
Acquired in 1930 from the collection of James Turner of Manchester, c. 500 volumes on the Temperance Movement in the 19th century, including some rare periodicals. It augments the Goldsmiths' Library holdings on temperance and moral reform.
Sheffield Collection
In 1907 the Library bought (Sotheby, 4 Nov.) part of the collection of John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield, a leading economic authority of his time, comprising 260 books and pamphlets, 54 Acts and Proclamations of 1650-51 and 6 volumes of his scrapbooks.
Rastrick Collection
The collection of John Urpeth Rastrick, civil and mechanical engineer, and railway pioneer. In 1908, 250 items from the collection were bought with a grant from the Goldsmiths' Company, and incorporated into the transport history section of the Goldsmiths' Library. Contains 211 printed books of 1768-1887, mostly 1821-50 and almost all railway (with a few canal) engineering reports and prospectuses, manuscript notebooks, specifications and estimates.
Family Welfare Association Library
Founded in 1869 as the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity and from 1871 to 1946 called the Charity Organisation Society, the Family Welfare Association deposited its library of 5,000 volumes of books and pamphlets on permanent loan in the Goldsmiths' Library in 1963.
Contains mostly late 19th and early 20th century, with 100 pre-1851 items; 300 volumes of pamphlets and over 100 volumes of government publications. It covers all social questions, with the emphasis on poverty and the Poor Law, education, mental and physical health and the blind. Donations include those of Thomas Mackay, Sir Charles Stewart Loch and William Harris, who gave a collection of books on the care and teaching of the blind. The library also contains the bequest of William Pare, the co-operator, many of whose books are in distinctive bindings, marked by his initials, including a scrapbook and much other material relating to Robert Owen, assembled for an intended biography which was never completed.
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