SWANSEA UNIVERSITY library is now the home of the largest collection of books on the American Civil War in the UK.
The collection was donated last summer by Alan Milne from Cardiff. He spent nearly 30 years of his life collecting 2,000 books on the Civil War, many of them primary sources including soldier diaries, naval war records and presidential papers.
“It’s unusual for a library in this country to have such a collection,” said Ian Glen, subject librarian for the Arts and Humanities team.
