People, places, environments...
Welcome to the Society’s Collections pages. Here you will find, for example:

• information on the types of material we hold
• our online catalogue
• details of our remaining card catalogues
• guidance on visiting the Foyle Reading Room
• access to our commercial Picture Library site.

  Meet our readers
Those using the Foyle Reading Room access a unique collection of materials. Read interviews with some of our readers: Mark Georgiou, BBC News Producer or authors Nicholas & Elizabeth Clinch

  Loaned painting from the Collections
An 1825 portrait of traveller and author James Silk Buckingham with wife by Henry William Pickersgill is on loan to an exhibition ‘The lure of the East: British Orientalist painting’.

The exhibition is at Tate Britain until 31 August 2008, having been at the Yale Center for British Art, and moving to Istanbul's Pera Museum, and the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE. The exhibition explores British artists' responses to the near and Middle East between 1780 and 1930.

Society members can avail of two tickets for the price of one to this fascinating exhibition. Sign in to our Members' area for further details

  For general Collections enquiries, via the Foyle Reading Room, ring:
+44 (0)20 7591 3044; for Commercial Picture Library enquiries, ring: +44 (0)20 7591 3060; or use the email links to your right.