A Tale of Two Cities
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
Author: Julianne Simpson
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 3)
This is third and final post by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations by a ManchesterContinue Reading
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 2)
This is the second of three blog posts by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations byContinue Reading
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 1)
Trade directories provide an invaluable primary source for social and family historians. In a series of three posts, Special CollectionsContinue Reading
Book for a Cardinal
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostlyContinue Reading
Pietro Antonio Ferro: An Italian Painter and his Book
Sara D’Amico spent three months working with us as part of the EU Erasmus+ training scheme. Her project focused onContinue Reading
16th-Century Italian Books: A New Partnership
The Census of Italian 16th-Century Editions (EDIT 16) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and atContinue Reading
Chinese Educational Texts of the Late Qing Dynasty
As part of our ongoing work on the library’s Chinese collections (see previous blog post) we are beginning to digitiseContinue Reading
A Comprehensive Variety: The Rylands Chinese Collections
From May 2018 to January 2019, Johannes Lotze worked on the library’s Chinese collections and produced a report covering theContinue Reading
