University of Kent resources
Kent’s Templeman Library holds an impressive stock of scholarly editions, monographs and journals, and the Special Collections section includes a significant number of facsimile manuscripts. Our catalogue LibrarySearch is simple to use, making it easy for you to access our materials.
Items relevant to our students include:
- the Pre-1700s collection – contains religious texts, plays and contemporary literature: including first editions of works by Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson and a second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles
- the Classified Sequence – has many Victorian editions of medieval and early modern texts, allowing researchers to see how works were edited and published to 19th-century audiences
- the Local History collection – contains guidebooks relating to the Kent and Canterbury locales and includes a small number of 16th-century tracts
- the John Crow collection – explores the works of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists
- the Maddison Collection – charts the development of science disciplines (particularly Chemistry and Physics) from the 15th century to the present day.

Holinshed's Chronicles, part of the Templeman Library’s Special Collections
MEMS subject guide
The MEMS subject guide lists relevant resources and is a good gateway to our digital library collections. Among our many e-resources are:
- Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies – records from the International Medieval Bibliography, Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale and International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance covering European history from 300 to 170
- State Papers Online 1509-1714 – the Tudor and Stuart state papers both domestic and foreign
- Cecil Papers – a major collection of early-modern historical documents from the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I/VI
- Early English Books Online (EEBO) – access to the full text of 125,000 books covering the period 1475-1700
- Early European Books: printed sources to 1700 – traces the history of printing in Europe, offering full-colour facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.