Remembering Pilot Officer Henry Allen Litherland (1921–44)
2021 marks the centenary of one of the most courageous members of staff ever to work at the John RylandsContinue Reading
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Cataloguing the Papers of L. P. Hartley: MA student placements at the Rylands
MA Student Placements at the Rylands
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens Collection launches on Manchester Digital Collections
19th-century writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are united in our new digital collection.
New teaching resource on the creative process of poet John Gallas
A New Creative Writing teaching resource from the Rylands.
An accrual to the Jeff Nuttall Collections
Newly acquired collection announcement.
The Golden Tango: Ernest Wilson’s Life in Music
Researched and written by Bruce Wilkinson and Dave Goulding Donated to the John Rylands Library Special Collections in September 2019,Continue Reading
Demanding the Impossible: Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi and the Situationist International
This is the second in a series of blogs outlining my research on Jeff Nuttall with a particular (but notContinue Reading
A Christmas Card Conundrum
In this festive post Jane Donaldson reports on a Christmas mystery at the Rylands…
From 2D to 3D – Photogrammetry Part 2
Investigating 3D imaging of our Special Collections.
New Collection Announcement: ‘Images of Hulme in the 80s and 90s’
Photographs depicting Hulme; the people, buildings and landscape, taken by Richard Davis.