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Facilities, Archives and Collections

For students and researchers

University of East Anglia’s unique and varied holdings include drama, film and media studios, museum artefacts, art works, rare books and manuscripts, and archive collections. The disciplinary range is wide, with particular strengths in British Contemporary Writing; Modernist Art, Design and Architecture; Science and Scientific Writing; Theatre; Suffragettes and Printed Ephemera. 

  • Archives at UEA - unbound

    UEA Archives holds collections for teaching and research – you can find out more at ‘Unbound – the University of East Anglia’s Archives Blog’ which feature news and updates on our collections as well as exhibits and the occasional guest blog from one of our authors or other depositors.

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  • British Archive for Contemporary Writing

    Most notable collections include Doris Lessing, Naomi Alderman, Tash Aw, Malcolm Bradbury, Amit Chaudhuri, Adam Foulds, Andrew Cowan, Richard Beard, Charlie Higson, J.D. Salinger, Roger Deakin, Lorna Sage, Mark Cocker, Sara Taylor, WG Sebald and Snoo Wilson.

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  • BCLT Library

    The BCLT Library, housed within the British Centre for Literary Translation at UEA, is a resource available to literary translators, researchers, UEA staff and students and the general public. Almost all of the library’s collection is available for readers to explore.

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  • BLOC

    The state-of-the-art Media Suite supports students and staff in the Faculty of Arts in Humanities in their creative and practise-based learning, teaching, and research activities across a broad range of digital media and methods.

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  • Drama Studio

    The Drama Studio is a flexible theatre space and the home of UEA Drama. The venue for theatre, comedy, musicals and live literature on campus.


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  • East Anglian Film Archive (EAFA)

    EAFA is an accredited film archive and the first Regional Film Archive in England. Our state of the art digital moving image archive contains thousands of films and television programmes from 1896.

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  • James Platt Language Centre

    A resource centre with computers with a range of language-specific software plus tools such as keyboard-switch options, customised spellcheckers, comprehensive dictionary and translating facilities.

  • Music Centre

    Open to everyone on all degrees, providing Practice Rooms for the use of students and staff, and connecting students with music tutors, the Music Centre has its own choirs and orchestra available for students, staff, and members of the community to join (some by audition only).

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  • Photographic Collection

    UEA's Art History Photographic Collection contains approximately 150,000 prints and 500,000+ negatives and positives, making it one of the largest of its type in the UK.

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  • The Robert Sainsbury Library

    A specialised library in the indigenous arts and material culture of Africa, the Pacific Region and the Americas, holding approximately 22,000 volumes, AV collections and journals.

  • Sainsbury Centre

    Home to some of the most important works of art assembled in the United Kingdom, spanning some 5,000 years of human creativity, as well as the Robert Sainsbury Library and many archive collections.


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  • Subject Guides

    Introductory guides to Library resources for subjects studied at UEA.

  • Television Studio

    Well-equipped with 4 x JVC 550E digital cameras, vision and audio mixing, light gantry and fully sound proofed.


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Facilities, Archives and Collections - Faculty of Arts and Humanities