Covid-19 - updated access to Special Collections

There is currently no physical access to Special Collections and at present the scan and service is not available. Please contact special-collections@bradford.ac.uk with any enquiries about the collections.

Covid-19: University of Bradford's Visual Archive

Special Collections, at the University of Bradford, is collecting images of staff and students taken during the Covid-19 pandemic to create a photographic archive of experiences. The images will be added to the University’s archive collection and will be available to researchers in the future. We would love to receive your contributions.

Images taken from the start of lockdown in March 2020 and throughout the 2020-21 academic year will be included in the archive, to show how our staff and students have coped and adapted to home working, studying at home and the return to campus with social distancing measures in place.

Use our web form to submit images for the archive. For further guidance, please see our information sheet below or contact Special Collections.

Maureen Pinder, subject librarian at the University of Bradford, wearing a face shield

Covid-19: University of Bradford’s Visual Archive – information for participants

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