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.
This post considers how Enriqueta Ryland’s father and his British compatriots were complicit in the oppression of enslaved people in Cuba.
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.
Wonderful new blog from the British Library featuring our very own Laur Chanda manuscript (Hindustani MS 1). Source: Naskhi-divani: aContinue Reading
Free afternoon workshop at the Rylands on Networks and Archival Absences with keynote from Anne Welsh.
The deadline for abstracts for this workshop at the John Rylands Library has now been extended until August 19th, 2018.
The Reformation exhibition at the John Rylands Library marks 500 years since Luther declared his famous 95 theses (see Renegade,Continue Reading
James White writes Over the past weeks, I have been cataloguing some of the Persian literary manuscripts in the UniversityContinue Reading
Guest blog by Niki Pantazidou. As a book and paper conservator I had the great opportunity to work at theContinue Reading
Hindustani MS 1 has been digitised and is now available to view online in the Rylands Collection. This sixteenth-century copy of theContinue Reading