Records of the Institute of Rural Life at Home and Overseas (ref. DA22) are held at Birmingham University Information Services, Special Collections Department. The Birmingham University archive catalogue describes the collection as consisting of "minutes, publications, administrative files relating to conferences, lecture programmes."

Open 'This collection is held at Orchard Learning Resources Centre on the Selly Oak campus. All collections housed at the OLRC are currently made available for consultation in the Special Collections Department in the Main Library on the Edgbaston campus. Researchers are therefore required to make an appointment with the University Archivist to consult this collection and to give at least one week's notice of a visit in order for the material to be made available. Researchers are required to bring a letter of introduction with them on their first visit in order to obtain a reader's ticket.' (Source: archive catalogue, October 2007)

Description available by searching archive catalogue. 'There is no other finding aid to this collection available at present. '

Records relating to the Institute of Rural Life at Home and Overseas are among the papers of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (ref. LMA/4016), held at London Metropolitan Archives: City of London -see online catalogue.

Further records and correspondence relating to the Institute of Rural Life at Home and Overseas are among the Institute of Rural Life at Home and Overseas (ref. Mss Eur F142/18; Mss Eur F152/138; Mss Eur F152/139), held at British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office Library) -see online catalogue.

Related records are also among the papers of the Council for the Protection of Rural England (ref. SR CPRE C/1/210/1), held at Reading University: Museum of English Rural Life -see online catalogue.