Get on Your Bike and Ride
Jane Donaldson explores the relationship between the Guardian newspaper and the early years of cycling.
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International Women’s Day: Breaking the Bias with Our Special Collections
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
The Very Visible Suffragettes
The greatest impulse of the suffragettes was to create a disturbance. To make themselves seen and heard so that theContinue Reading
Celebrating 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper
Hello! Our names are Kirat and Victoria and we are Masters students on the Art Gallery and Museum Studies courseContinue Reading
The Suffragettes Incarcerated
Today marks the opening of our new exhibition ‘Women Who Shaped Manchester’ which runs until the 10th of March 2019.Continue Reading
Mary Jane Clarke, an Unsung Hero
Our current exhibition is celebrating some of the ‘Women Who Shaped Manchester’ and it will run until the 10th ofContinue Reading
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.
Hidden Stories: Behind The Night Brother for Museums at Night 2019
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
The Suffragettes Incarcerated
Jane Donaldson writes: Working through the letters from the Pankhurst family to C.P. Scott in the Guardian archives, I haveContinue Reading
Volunteer Projects on the Guardian Archive
As the most recent cataloguing project on the Guardian archive draws to a close, our project volunteers, Jane Donaldson andContinue Reading
