Fuller Collection

The collection holds a wealth of material covering many areas of hospitality. In addition to its book and pamphlet stock, the Collection also contains much ephemera in the form of recipe leaflets, cuttings and scrapbooks, as well as a large number of manuscript recipe and household books.

Majority of archival material catalogued by Eleanor Possart, 2008, 2012.Non-recipe and recipe cuttings catalogued by Andrzej Szafranski, 2012.

All users external to the University are required to register before using the collections. Collections must be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room and users must abide by the Reading Room regulations.

Professor John Fuller, formerly Director of the Scottish Hotel School at the University of Strathclyde and then, until his retirement in 1976, Head of the Department of Catering Management at Oxford Polytechnic, built up the Collection over forty years and in 1978 offered it to the Polytechnic, as it then was, for purchase. It was bought following an appeal to local industry and to the hospitality industry for financial support, and is now on public display in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Library.