Showcasing the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
Dr Imogen Durant presents the new Elizabeth Gaskell Collection at the John Rylands Library, guiding users to the wealth of material available.
Category: Collections
Decoding & Encoding German MS 3 – Alchemy, Imagery, and Metadata
Manager of the Rylands Heritage Imaging Lab and part-time MA Library and archives student Jamie Robinson introduces his placement creating enhanced metadata for an 18th-century mysterious alchemical manuscript in the Rylands Collections.
Caring for Collections: Preparing for the Rylands’ New Galleries
Go behind the scenes with Collection Care to learn how they conserved special collections for display in the newly refurbished galleries
Death by Hunger: Malcolm Muggeridge and the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933
By Rose Burke (MA student, Library and Archive Studies at the University of Manchester)
‘A Man of Temper and Humanity’? The Character of the Ordinary of Newgate in the Spencer Collection
Dr Imogen Knox explores the reputation of the Newgate prison minister and public attitudes surrounding the treatment of criminals condemned to die.
Unlocking the Secrets of the John Ryland’s Manuscript Collection: A Digital Humanities Study of an Arabic Manuscript of Galen’s ‘On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body’
By Dr Kamran Karimullah, Lecturer in Islamic Thought at the University of Manchester
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. IX: Blockbooks (Part 3) – The Art of Dying
Continuing our look at the blockbook collection in the John Rylands Library, this blog focuses on the Ars Moriendi (“The Art of Dying”)
Print and preach – the importance of Methodist Circuit Plans
By Angela Petyt-Whittaker, Reader Services Assistant
Votes for Women! Inspiration in words and pictures.
The second blog in our series on Votes for Women.
A Surprise Visit With Peter Doyle, Walt Whitman’s Most Significant Other
Prof. Karen Karbiener discusses the discovery of an 1868 carte de visite in the John Rylands Library’s Whitman Collection