Aviation History Book Collections

Archival studies of the Luftwaffe from 1934 to 1945: aircraft procurement, underground factories, armament and front-line types

Original research into German and British air power 1914 to 1918, the Fokker D.VII, RFC and RNAS procurement and Ministry of Munitions records

Scottish aviation manufacturing from Clydeside in the Great War to the inter-war years, including Beardmore, Weir and the Renfrew scene

The helicopter from the Cierva autogyro and Focke Achgelis to the Weir W5, Sikorsky Hoverfly and Bristol Sycamore

Cold War jet operations, from the Canadair Sabre in RAF, RCAF and Luftwaffe service to Frank Whittle and the early jet age

HMS Argus, the world's first flat-deck aircraft carrier, built by Beardmore at Dalmuir and in service through Operation Torch

Lives of aviators who defined the limits of flight, from test pilot Eric Brown to Lucy Lady Houston, Percy Pilcher and Dieter Dengler

The pioneering all-metal aircraft of Adolf Rohrbach, whose stressed-skin construction influenced Boeing, Douglas and Northrop

The British nuclear deterrent from Tube Alloys to the V-bombers, Blue Steel and Polaris, and the 1945 statements on the atomic bomb

The Morris Furniture Company of Glasgow, from furnishing the Queen Mary to Highball casings, Mosquito plywood and Cierva rotor blades

Dorothy Wordsworth's journal of the 1803 tour of Scotland with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, now in its seventh printing