Decolonisation and the Guardian’s West African correspondents, c. 1953-1971
Guest post by postgraduate students, Fatima Shaban and Owen Mills, whose project centres on the Patrick J Monkhouse correspondence inContinue Reading
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A very Rylands Christmas
A little frolic through the John Rylands’ festive collections.
Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day – 3 November 2022
A blog by Jan Whalen, Digital Preservation and Systems Manager, The University of Manchester Library. Organized by the Digital PreservationContinue Reading
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Steven Hartshorne, Curator of Science, Technology and Medicine Rare Books, discusses the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in September 1830
The Norman Shrapnel Collection – Nostalgia in the past and present
Sophia Louise Lee discusses journalist and broadcaster Norman Shrapnel’s reflections on nostalgia in his ‘London Letters’
Anonymous Anatomies: A Critical History of Visual Anonymity in Britain and America, 1870 – 1955
This blog post includes images of pregnancy and nudity, which some readers might find uncomfortable. Dr Christine Slobogin, Visiting EarlyContinue Reading
45 Year Old Records At The John Rylands Library: the Kevin Cummins Archive
Dave Goulding looks back on his first punk rock gig, inspired by the Kevin Cummins Archive, part of the British Pop Archive.
Meet our interns: Sophia Lee from Aarhus University
Who am I? My name is Sophia Louise Lee, and I am in Manchester doing a 2-month work placement atContinue Reading