South Asian Heritage Month Collection Close up: Preserving Palm Leaf – A Sacred Manuscript Tradition
To celebrate South Asian Heritage Month this series will be exploring items from the collections related to South Asian Heritage.Continue Reading
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Sickness and Health: New digital History of Medicine Collection launched
A new digital collection launched this week on Manchester Digital Collections brings together an dynamic mix of items from our medical collections for the first time.
South Asian Heritage Month Collection Close Up: Tales of Panji
The third and final piece of our series celebrating South Asian Heritage Month explores Javanese history and culture with RizaContinue Reading
South Asian Heritage Month Collection Close up: Preserving Palm Leaf – A Sacred Manuscript Tradition
To celebrate South Asian Heritage Month this series will be exploring items from the collections related to South Asian Heritage.Continue Reading
South Asian Heritage Month Collection Close Up: Punjabi 5.
Punjabi 5: scripture written on burnished, handmade paper To celebrate South Asian Heritage Month this series will be exploring itemsContinue Reading
The Clitheroe Kid: Jeff Nuttall and All That Jazz
This blog highlights my initial PhD research constructing a brief biography of Jeff Nuttall. Poet, artist, musician and the authorContinue Reading
‘Matter of Curious Inquiry’: Gilbert White and The Natural History of Selborne: part 2
18 July 2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist and author of the perennially popular Natural History of Selborne, published in 1788. In the first blog post to celebrate the centenary, I explored Gilbert White’s life, his significance as a proto-environmentalist and scientist, and the charm of his natural-history writing. In this second blog post, I discuss the publication history of The Natural History of Selborne and its evergreen appeal to successive generations of readers.
‘Matter of Curious Inquiry’: Gilbert White and The Natural History of Selborne: part 1
18 July 2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist and author of the perennially popular Natural History of Selborne, published in 1788. In this blog post, I explore some aspects of Gilbert White’s life, his significance as a proto-environmentalist and scientist, and the charm of his natural-history writing.
Sign of the Times: the Sitters Books of Frank Salisbury – Part 2
In the second of two blog posts, Reader Services Assistants Ian Graham and Angela Petyt-Whittaker continue to discuss their jointContinue Reading
Introduction to Collection Care
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
Materials of the Book – Paper
Paper has had many uses… crucially it is the perfect material for writing, printing and making books