A Christmas Card Conundrum
In this festive post Jane Donaldson reports on a Christmas mystery at the Rylands…
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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: 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
Revealing the Rylands: Making Sense of the Medieval
Through our social media channels, this week we are featuring images from our medieval European collections. Visitor Engagement Assistant Lee Brooks,Continue Reading
Travels through Tokugawa Japan
Dr Sonia Favi explores the travel literature of early modern Japan.