#Archive30
For the month of April we are joining in #Archive30.
Category: Collections
New Artworks at the Library!
We’re delighted to announce that the Library has acquired three new art works commissioned for The 50 Jewish Objects Project.
And the Scroll of Esther unrolls…
To mark the festival of Purim, Zsofia Buda discusses our recently digitised collection of Esther scrolls.
New Acquisition To Our Visual Collections By Local Artist Anthony McCarthy
A newly acquired artwork by Anthony McCarthy depicts an alcove in the Historic Reading Room
Celebrating our 750th blog post
The Rylands blog reaches the landmark of 750 posts over almost ten years
“I was so ill, and so low…” Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in England, 1750-1850
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Anna Jamieson, explores the mental health of women in 18th- and 19th-century England by examining the Rylands’ Mary Hamilton papers.
Newly catalogued: papers of art historian Professor Marcia Pointon
Papers of art historian Professor Marcia Pointon have recently been catalogued and made available to researchers
The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness (1877-1967)
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, this blog showcases the Grace Grattan Guinness archive, a small collection within the ChristianContinue Reading
International Women’s Day: Breaking the Bias with Our Special Collections
On International Women’s Day 2022 the Rylands reflects on what Special Collections can tell us (and what is left to discover) about the women who changed Manchester forever
Images of Martyrdom in an Early Modern Pilgrim’s Narrative
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.