New Digital Collection: Broadside Ballads
A selection of 18th and 19th century broadside ballads and slip-songs is now available on Manchester Digital Collections.
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Rylands Reflects: Our Spaces Are Not Neutral Part 2, The Visitor Engagement Team’s Alternative Reading Room
Part of the ‘Rylands reflects’ series, in this blog the Visitor Engagement Team share their suggestions for inspirational figures to feature in a re-imagined Historic Reading Room.
Rylands Reflects: Content Warnings for Collections and Catalogues
Warnings for Collections and Catalogues.
New Digital Collection; Magic, Monsters and Macabre.
When the opportunity arose to curate a collection for Manchester Digital Collections, I jumped at the chance to curate Magic, Monsters and Macabre, bringing together the more esoteric and peculiar items I’ve come across during my time at the Rylands.
Rylands Reflects: Our Spaces Are Not Neutral Part 1, ‘Threshold Fear’ and the Historic Reading Room
As part of the ‘Rylands reflects’ series, this blog considers questions of inclusion and diversity in light of the architecture of the John Rylands Library, from a Visitor Engagement perspective.
Black History Month: Beyond October – A Journey of Discovery
Today’s post is by Caroline Hall and Ruqaiyah Naqshbandi from the Visitor Engagement Team. They are both avid readers, great Googlers and (we hope) okayContinue Reading
Black History Month: Frederick Douglass – The Struggle, The Progress
By Angel Cossigny, Visitor Engagement Assistant Frederick Douglass: a brave, courageous, tenacious and powerful man used his skills as anContinue Reading
Black History Month: Robert Wedderburn, Revolutionary and Abolitionist
By Annie Dickinson, Visitor Engagement Assistant The 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre last August saw commemorative events held acrossContinue Reading
Learie Constantine (1901–1971): cricketer and campaigner for racial equality
This Black History Month blog takes a look at Learie Constantine’s sporting and political life, drawing inspiration from materials held at the University of Manchester Special Collections including the Brockbank Cricket Collection.
Stop the Tour: Two Protests One Ideal
In November 1969 the touring Springboks rugby union team visited Manchester inspiring two very different but interconnected anti-racism protests which this blog celebrates as part of Black History Month.