“The Moriarty of the Book World”: Thomas J. Wise at The John Rylands Library
PhD student Ellesse Patterson reflects on the relationship between The John Rylands Library and one of Britain’s most notorious literaryContinue Reading
Author: Elizabeth Gow
‘Take no distaste of my words, though they be a woman’s writing’
Guest author Dr. Naomi Baker discusses Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative (1636-7), one of the earliest known English conversion narratives, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War
Three Near-Identical Voltaire Letters
Guest authors Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Gillian Pink investigate a curious coincidence surrounding three near-identical letters by French philosopher Voltaire
Rylands Reflects: Enriqueta Rylands’s first home
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: Our Man in Havana
This post considers how Enriqueta Ryland’s father and his British compatriots were complicit in the oppression of enslaved people in Cuba.
Rylands Reflects: Whiter than white? Enriqueta Rylands’s Cuban roots
Part of the ‘Rylands reflects’ series, this blog-post focuses on the Cuban childhood and family background of Enriqueta Rylands (1843-1908), founder of the John Rylands Library.
Naskhi-divani: A Little-Recognized Sultanate Script – Asian and African Studies Blog
Wonderful new blog from the British Library featuring our very own Laur Chanda manuscript (Hindustani MS 1). Source: Naskhi-divani: aContinue Reading