“The world has a right to know what we are doing and how we are doing it.” -Manchester Civic Week
The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answerContinue Reading
Latest Posts
Finding faith in the urban archive
Did urbanisation and industrialisation cause religious faith to decline in eighteenth-century England? Correspondence from the Nicholson family of Manchester merchants suggests otherwise.
Welcome to the Family: getting to know the staff of the Manchester Guardian
Blog post by Karen Jacques – co curator of ‘Manchester’s Guardian: 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper’ I have theContinue Reading
What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
Today marks the birthday of the founder of the John Rylands Library, Enriqueta Augustina Rylands née Tennant. Enriqueta and herContinue Reading
Palladium: appraisal and sensitivity review of the Carcanet email archive
An update on the Palladium project.
Speak PROPER Renaissance Italian!
A Renaissance Man’s “Speaking Book” in Manchester’s Neo-Gothic Library
Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research project so far (part 2)
The second of two posts written by University of Manchester MA students Hannah Banks and Matthew Bridson, who have been working with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on the project ‘Redressing colonial perspectives in Echoes of Service Archives’.
Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research project so far (part 1)
The first of two posts written by University of Manchester MA students Hannah Banks and Matthew Bridson, who have been working with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on the project ‘Redressing colonial perspectives in Echoes of Service Archives’.
Guardian Exhibition: Anniversaries: The Guardian newspaper through time and place
This anniversary blog, written by the Guardian Exhibition Curator Janette Martin, highlights objects from our bicentenary exhibition and from theContinue Reading
Marking the bicentenary of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821)
2nd May 2021 is the bicentenary of the death of Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury), writer and focal point of a brilliant literary circle. This post marks the anniversary by discussing a fine letter from Hester to Penelope Pennington from 1820, which the Rylands purchased late last year.