Documentary and archival material is increasingly used by postgraduates across the social sciences and humanities. This can include written, visual, and audio materials, held within both public and private archives, and in more or less ordered ‘collections’. Finding secondary sources at the boundary of public knowledge, such as from charities, can expand one’s base of sources, but raise important methodological and ethical challenges. This advanced qualitative methods workshop will provide participants with an overview of how to go about archival and documentary research and the opportunities that this offers, whilst also exploring more deeply some of the practical and ethical challenges that exist.