Cataloguing the First World War Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian
Lucy-Kay Brownson, a student on Liverpool University’s Master of Archives and Records Management course, writes: In January 2019, as partContinue Reading
Author: John Hodgson
Dr John Hodgson is an honorary research fellow in the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.
A Closer Look at the Manchester Observer (1819–1822)
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our current exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, writes: The spring and summer of 1819Continue Reading
A Book of Ours: Manchester’s “Homeless” Engage with our Manuscripts
The Library is working with the arts organisation arthur+martha to facilitate the making of an illuminated manuscript at the Booth CentreContinue Reading
Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts at the John Rylands Library
Dr Jo Edge writes: I’ve been employed at the John Rylands Library since August 2018, tasked with creating digital catalogueContinue Reading
Heraldry for German Princes by a Prince amongst German Painters
Continuing the theme of our previous blog post, Dr Ben Pope of the University of Tübingen writes about his recentContinue Reading
Unknown Cranach Work Discovered in the John Rylands Library
Issue 94.2 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, published by Manchester University Press, contains a very special article byContinue Reading
Opening up the Peterloo Collections at the University of Manchester Library
Dr Janette Martin writes: The University of Manchester Library has digitised a second tranche of unique documents and rare printedContinue Reading
Wild Billy Childish and the Medway Poets
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes his seventh blog post on the amazing Dave Cuncliffe Collection, acquired earlierContinue Reading
Isabella Banks, ‘Orator’ Hunt and the Peterloo Massacre
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our forthcoming Peterloo exhibition, tells us how the collections held at the University of ManchesterContinue Reading
From Motown to Mill Town: ‘Heads of State’ Press Release
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes his sixth blog post on the amazing Dave Cuncliffe Collection, acquired earlierContinue Reading