When the opportunity arose to curate a collection for Manchester Digital Collections, I jumped at the chance to curate Magic, Monsters and Macabre, bringing together the more esoteric and peculiar items I’ve come across during my time at the Rylands.
Today’s post is by Caroline Hall and Ruqaiyah Naqshbandi from the Visitor Engagement Team. They are both avid readers, great Googlers and (we hope) okayContinue Reading
By Angel Cossigny, Visitor Engagement Assistant Frederick Douglass: a brave, courageous, tenacious and powerful man used his skills as anContinue Reading
By Annie Dickinson, Visitor Engagement Assistant The 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre last August saw commemorative events held acrossContinue Reading
This Black History Month blog takes a look at Learie Constantine’s sporting and political life, drawing inspiration from materials held at the University of Manchester Special Collections including the Brockbank Cricket Collection.
In November 1969 the touring Springboks rugby union team visited Manchester inspiring two very different but interconnected anti-racism protests which this blog celebrates as part of Black History Month.
A selection of French revolutionary proclamations are now available on Manchester Digital Collections
The Dave Cunliffe Archive held at the John Rylands Library is currently uncatalogued but holds approximately 5000 radical 1960s andContinue Reading
Collections Assistants Clare Baker and Karen Jacques take a look at the University Photographic Collection.
Western Manuscripts Curator, Anne Anderton, explores the artistry of medieval manuscripts.