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
Author: Anne Anderton
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections: Bringing the Digital Backlog and Cataloguing Practice under Control
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). In my previous post: Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections IContinue Reading
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). A prime example of neo-Gothic architecture and one of the mostContinue 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
Women who Shaped Manchester: The Magical Annie Horniman
As we are approaching Halloween, it is appropriate to concentrate a blog on one of our most flamboyant Manchester women,Continue 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
Close to the heart, the Art of family
In previous blogs about the Rylands photographic collections there has been a lot of focus on architectural photographs and landscapes;Continue Reading
Innovators and Artists, the early pioneers of Photography
The ‘Out of the Ether’ project, supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, which is facilitating cataloguingContinue Reading
Francis Frith, Manchester & the Business of Art
Francis Frith (1822 –1898) was an English photographer who captured images of many towns in the United Kingdom but isContinue Reading
Picturing the The West Riding Asylum, Menston, Yorkshire, 1901
We have a further addition to Visual Collections items that have been catalogued as part of the Paul Mellon CentreContinue Reading