Speaking to angels: Charaktêres in Jewish magical manuscripts – Part I
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, andContinue Reading
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Digital Collections Internship – part 2 – SPOTLIGHT on Hana Sharkey
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021,Continue Reading
Digital Collections Internship – Part 1
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was aContinue Reading
Palladium – Appraisal Experiments with the Email of Poet Elaine Feinstein
Appraisal of email of poet Elaine Feinstein in the Carcanet Email Archive.
From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections
Jewish women, in Israel and throughout the Diaspora, have always treasured an important document: their ketubah.
Artist Residency reflections – music inspired by the Alan Turing Archive.
Dr Joshua Brown is a composer, of instrumental and vocal music, from Rossendale in East Lancashire (www.joshuabrowncomposer.com). He was Artist in Residence at the John Rylands Research Institute from 2019/20. He completed his PhD in Composition at the University of Manchester with Professor Philip Grange in 2018, and he is currently Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester, and composition tutor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.
Recently catalogued: the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), architect
We have recently completed a catalogue of the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), a leading Manchester architect and a prominent figure in the social and cultural life of the city during the Victorian period.
The human body and how to use it: a Jewish copy of a Christian medical work
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website.
Palladium Project – development work on ePADD
An update on Palladium project development work.
Global Tapestry and Vegan Action: Environmental activism in the 1960s
From the early 1960s Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris ran a small press which they used to produce poetry publicationsContinue Reading