The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Steven Hartshorne, Curator of Science, Technology and Medicine Rare Books, discusses the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in September 1830
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Making Brethren Women Visible
Christian Brethren Archive volunteer, Olivia Spencer writes: This series of blogs celebrates the lives of some of the Brethren womenContinue Reading
Across Boundaries: How International Networks Shaped the 1836 Manchu Translation of the New Testament
Researcher Dr Anastasiia Akulich explores the international and multi-denominational influences that produced the 1836 translation of the New Testament in Manchu.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 4 – Reflection
Rylands ICP placement students, Kai and Yunshuang, spent twenty days with the Imaging team between November 2021 and May 2022,Continue Reading
Inside the Cunliffe Collection: The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Black Mask Magazine.
Bruce Wilkinson discusses the set of Black Mask magazine, produced by the 1960s New York anarchist group of the same name, in the Dave Cunliffe Collection.
Queering the Collections
Our LGBTQ+ Special Collections Guide acts as a new route into our collections – opening up fresh avenues of research and enriching our knowledge of the past and present world.
Salford Lads’ Club: New Artwork by Anthony McCarthy
A new Anthony McCarthy work to add to our Visual Collections
ḤaBaD Hasidic Manuscripts in the Rylands. Part 2: Authoritativeness and Precision in Transmission
Dr Israel M. Sandman continues his exploration of the ḤaBaD Hasidic manuscripts in the Rylands’ collection, exploring the authoritativeness of various manuscripts, and methods for maintaining textual accuracy.
Periodicals of the Christian Brethren Archive
Dr Sam Hyde describes the incredible wealth of periodicals in the Christian Brethren Archive
Lost and found? The rediscovery of a missing Avicenna manuscript.
The story of an annotated copy of Avicenna’s medical writings in Hebrew translation that was thought to be lost for almost one and a half centuries and turned out to be hiding in the University of Manchester Library.