Liberté, égalité, fraternité: a French Revolutionary calendar
Today is Bastille Day, and we celebrate by announcing the recent acquisition of a fascinating manuscript French Revolutionary calendar, or calendrier universel.Continue Reading
Today is Bastille Day, and we celebrate by announcing the recent acquisition of a fascinating manuscript French Revolutionary calendar, or calendrier universel.Continue Reading
The John Rylands Research Institute, a unique partnership between the Library and the University’s Faculty of Humanities, is currently advertisingContinue Reading
A team from Collection Management has recently completed restoring and cataloguing the John Heath-Stubbs Printed Book Collection which, along withContinue Reading
Over the last 4 months we have been working across teams, (The Visual Collections and The Manuscript and Archives Departments),Continue Reading
James Peters writes: We have recently catalogued the papers of G. A. G. Mitchell (1906-1993), professor of anatomy at theContinue Reading
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: After the end of World War I,Continue Reading
We have recently digitised a set of slides documenting the creation of the carved and gilded lettering on the frontContinue Reading
Elaine Sheldon from our Collection Care Team writes: Freelance paintings conservator Elizabeth Jowett has recently been working on a smallContinue Reading
Sandra Cruise, one of our archive volunteers, writes: The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815,Continue Reading
Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, haveContinue Reading