Specimens and Savages? Representing people in the historic Manchester Geographical Society Lantern Slide Collection
Dr Inbal Livne discusses how we start the process of inclusive cataloguing.
Dr Inbal Livne discusses how we start the process of inclusive cataloguing.
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr James Watts, explores the map collection of the Manchester Geographical Society (MGS).
On International Women’s Day 2022 the Rylands reflects on what Special Collections can tell us (and what is left to discover) about the women who changed Manchester forever
This post explores an interesting piece of ephemera, a map of ‘Rome in 1890’ published in ‘The Graphic’ newspaper in 1890.
This is the first blog post in a series of three, and this post explores three maps of France, Greece and Italy by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville.
A Collection Bite from the Visitor Engagement Team focusing on Manchester Geographical Society Maps
This post delves into the provenance of thirty-six manuscript maps of the Greek Archipelago.
This is a blog post that describes interesting provenance of the Manchester Geographical Society map collection, including Eli Sowerbutts and Charles Roeder.
This is a blog post detailing Irrigation maps and plans in Egypt from the Manchester Geographical Society Map Collection.
Blog post looking at Antiquarian maps of Africa by John Overton and John Speed found in the Manchester Geographical Society collection