Avant-Garde Art and Alternative Lifestyles
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes his fifth blog post on the amazing Dave Cuncliffe Collection, acquired earlierContinue Reading
Author: John Hodgson
Dr John Hodgson is an honorary research fellow in the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.
‘What a bright beam we had cast into their lives’: Exploring the Papers of Priscilla Staples (Beecham) 1947–2018
Volunteer Anna Tomkinson writes about her work on the Priscilla Staples (Beecham) Papers: Priscilla Staples née Beecham (stage name RoseContinue Reading
Remembering Armistice Day 1918
One hundred years ago today, on 11 November 1918, guns on the Western Front and other theatres of war fellContinue Reading
Visit to William Cowley Parchment Makers
Mark Furness, Senior Conservator in our Collection Care team, writes: A rare opportunity came up recently to take a tourContinue Reading
Rapture and Reason Revisited
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: In September 2016 the University of Manchester Library digitised and placed online a collection of 153Continue Reading
From Wild West to West End: ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook and Performances of Frontier Manhood
Stevie Watson, a PhD student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, writes about our ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook, EnglishContinue Reading
El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes his second blog post on the Dave Cunliffe Archive: Now that myContinue Reading
What are Little Poetry Magazines?
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute researcher, writes: The Dave Cunliffe Archive contains a superb collection of hundreds of BritishContinue Reading
A Beautiful Happening: The Dave Cunliffe Archive
The Dave Cunliffe archive contains material from his BB Books small press and it’s important to note that from 1963Continue Reading
Peterloo: The Forgotten Massacre?
Dr Janette Martin, curator of a forthcoming Peterloo exhibition at the John Rylands Library, writes: On 16 August 1819 aContinue Reading