New Digital Collection: Revolutionary France
A selection of French revolutionary proclamations are now available on Manchester Digital Collections
A selection of French revolutionary proclamations are now available on Manchester Digital Collections
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
This is third and final post by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations by a ManchesterContinue Reading
This is the second of three blog posts by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations byContinue Reading
Trade directories provide an invaluable primary source for social and family historians. In a series of three posts, Special CollectionsContinue Reading
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostlyContinue Reading
Sara D’Amico spent three months working with us as part of the EU Erasmus+ training scheme. Her project focused onContinue Reading
The Census of Italian 16th-Century Editions (EDIT 16) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and atContinue Reading
As part of our ongoing work on the library’s Chinese collections (see previous blog post) we are beginning to digitiseContinue Reading
From May 2018 to January 2019, Johannes Lotze worked on the library’s Chinese collections and produced a report covering theContinue Reading