Comprises printed material as collected by John G. Langley over the course of his life-long interest in the history of the Cunard Steamship Company and its connection to Canada through its original founder, Sir Samuel Cunard.

As one of the largest complimentary resources to the main business papers of the Cunard archive, this collection comprises extensive examples of printed ephemera in the form of menu cards, programmes, passenger lists, accommodation plans and general marketing materials such as brochures and sailing lists. The collection also contains voyage memorabilia and personal papers collected by individuals, including John G. Langley himself, as well as news articles, postcards, photographs and a small selection of audio-visual material.

The collection also includes records that document the work of the Cunard Steamship Society, largely in the form of photographs and news articles covering events that the society was involved in, printed material produced by other shipping lines and publications relating to maritime history.

The collected papers of the Rt Hon the Lord Owen, former Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, cover his political career from his early Labour Party membership until his retirement as SDP MP for Plymouth Devonport. The main body of records date from c.1962-1995, although the collection also contains some earlier material relating to David Owen's family life and education.

Close to 700 boxes of records in various media, including correspondence, MS notes, memoranda and reports, committee papers, speech transcripts, news cuttings and publications, campaign material, photographs and cartoons and video and cassette recordings.

The Ted Hughes Collection includes various manuscript and typescript poem drafts. They include The Martydom of Bishop Farrar, Lust and Desire, Six Young Men, Egghead, The Horses, Famous Poet, Wind, Bayonet of Charge, Macaw and Little Miss, the Bedtime Story poems (published in Crow under different titles), Magical Dangers, Conjuring in Heaven, Rocket to Venus, Gog II, To be a Girl's Diary, Fern, Bad News Good!, Eating with Friends, As I sit Stoking my TV and The Thought Fox. Some of these have been heavily worked upon. There is also a small number of poems that appear not to have been published and/or are untitled. There is a small amount of correspondence, some scenarios possibly intended for television, scripts for radio plays and drafts of the plays The Demon and Orpheus and Eurydice. The majority of the archive comprises material related to Hughes's adaption of Seneca's Oedipus. This includes drafts of the play, proofs and printer's copies and correspondence related to this, accounts and correspondence concerning Hughes's transactions with The National Theatre with particular reference to a dispute over contract, and material relating to various productions. There are also two translations of Oedipus.

[ Note: In 1975 the University of Liverpool Library exchanged the original autograph drafts for the play Orpheus and Eurydice (ref.no. Hughes 4/3) for some other Ted Hughes MSS. We hold photocopies of the drafts for Orpheus and Eurydice. ]