Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: The collection of Methodist archive and rare print materials deposited at the John Rylands Library isContinue Reading
Dr James Peters writes: Sixty years ago this week, the Jodrell Bank radio telescope was involved in one of theContinue Reading
Occasionally items from archives go astray; very occasionally we are able to reunite them with their parent collections. This happyContinue Reading
Jasspreet Thethi, Special Collections Reader Services Assistant, writes: This year I attended my first conference in the record-keeping sector withContinue Reading
Dr James Peters writes: The Library has recently received a previously-unknown cache of correspondence of the mathematician and computer scientistContinue Reading
John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Research Fellow, Dr Laura Gathagan from SUNY Cortland, has spent the last two months investigatingContinue Reading
Volunteer Anna Tomkinson has been cataloguing the remarkable diaries of Margaret Collin, who visited the Soviet Union in the 1930s andContinue Reading
James Peters writes: This is the first in an occasional series of Special Collections Blog posts describing some of ourContinue Reading
Dr Phil O’Brien writes: On October 15 1979, Pit Prop Theatre Company staged its first production: Secret Society of 1812.Continue Reading
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany starting the countries involvement in what becameContinue Reading