Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part Two
This is the second blog in a series looking at slavery connections within English Ms 1199. This blog is focusedContinue Reading
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Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part One
This series of four blogs is based on research using the stock and ledger books of Blackburn cotton merchants MessrsContinue Reading
Researching the Eyefull Tower
A blog by Anastasia Eremeeva, placement student, BA Art History. First experiences with the archive offer no immediate instruction onContinue Reading
Designed to be Collected: The Leslie Clarence Cigarette and Trade Card Collection
The John Rylands Library holds a wide variety of ephemeral printing, from ballads and broadsides to playbills and advertisements. However,Continue Reading
An experiment in higher education: Owens College opens, 12 March 1851
Dr James Peter commemorates the 175th anniversary of the opening of Owens College, a predecessor institution of the University of Manchester.
Rediscovering Frances Power Cobbe
Using our collections to reignite the work of this near-forgotten Victorian philosopher and figure in the women’s suffrage movement.
Discovery and Empire: The botanical works of Caspar Commelin and Maria Sibylla Merian
A blog by Verity Burton, placement student, BA Art History. The John Rylands Library holds a remarkable collection of rareContinue Reading
New online collection of Arabic manuscripts II: from calendar to calligraphy
In our recent blog, we introduced some of the Quranic codices featuring our new digital collection of Arabic manuscripts. ApartContinue Reading
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. Number 11: Blockbooks (Part 5) – The Art of Memory
In this final blog on the John Rylands Library’s collection of 15th-century blockbooks, we take a look at the memory aid known as the “Ars memorandi”
A new era for Manchester computing: the Ferranti Mark I, 1951
Dr James Peters discusses the Ferranti Mark I computer, installed at the University of Manchester in February 1951.