To mark the RSPB’s Great Garden Birdwatch on 27-29 January 2023, we discuss the work of the eminent Victorian ornithologist, Henry Eeles Dresser, and his recently catalogued album of correspondence and photographs.
Jane Donaldson writes: Over the years, I have worked on a number of projects and in multiple teams at JohnContinue Reading
We recently acquired the first donation of the papers of writer Rosie Garland. In 2018-2019, she was the writer-in residence at the Rylands.
The Rylands blog reaches the landmark of 750 posts over almost ten years
Papers of art historian Professor Marcia Pointon have recently been catalogued and made available to researchers
We have recently completed a catalogue of the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), a leading Manchester architect and a prominent figure in the social and cultural life of the city during the Victorian period.
2nd May 2021 is the bicentenary of the death of Hester Lynch Piozzi (née Salusbury), writer and focal point of a brilliant literary circle. This post marks the anniversary by discussing a fine letter from Hester to Penelope Pennington from 1820, which the Rylands purchased late last year.
Follow us on the trail of a Christian English painter, and discover some unusual iconographical elements in an eighteenth-century Passover Haggadah
From today, 9 March 2021, the iconic John Rylands Library will be known as the John Rylands Research Institute and Library,Continue Reading
2021 marks the centenary of one of the most courageous members of staff ever to work at the John Rylands Library: Henry Allen Litherland (1921–44), DFC and bar.