Welcome to SOAS Digital Collections

SOAS Digital Collections brings together digitised and born-digital materials from collections across the school. Follow the pathways below to dive into each repository, browse through our holdings in the Browse overview, look for specific collections in our Collections A-Z or search for materials using the search boxes above.

Library

Browse digitised content from SOAS Library, a leading UK research library with over 1.3 million volumes, periodicals and audio-visual materials in 400 languages, all focusing on the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Archives

Find digitised content from SOAS Archives and Special Collections, one of the leading UK collections of archives, manuscripts and rare books on Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

Manuscripts

Art & Objects

See images of art and objects held by SOAS Library, SOAS Special Collections and SOAS Gallery

Ukiyo-e Collection

This featured collection shows ukiyo-e (lit. ‘pictures of the floating world’) images, a genre of traditional Japanese woodblock prints and paintings that flourished from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

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The material in SOAS Digital Collections contains imagery, descriptions, language or views that users may find offensive, oppressive, distressing or otherwise harmful. In addition, the catalogue entries describing the material may contain historic language that is distressing or offensive, usually as a direct transcription from the original material. Please see SOAS Library's Statement on potentially offensive materials and descriptions at SOAS Library for more information. We welcome suggestions for improving catalogue entries - please contact digital.collections@soas.ac.uk.