Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection
A year-long project has recently begun to catalogue the varied Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection. Altogether there are well over 200Continue Reading
Category: Collections
The Victor Hugo Papers
Josselin Blieck, who is completing an MA in Archives and Records Management at the University of Burgundy (Dijon), undertook anContinue Reading
A Portrait of Enriqueta Rylands
Elaine Sheldon of The Collection Care Team writes: The library’s portrait sculpture of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands has been cleaned byContinue Reading
The Fabrica of Vesalius: An exploration through our copies
Sara Mansutti, Mary O’Connor and Christine Stahl write: In response to a request to take part in a census ofContinue Reading
John Rylands Research Institute Forum – Dates for your Diary
The John Rylands Research Institute hosts an informal forum each month, to reveal and explore some of the diverse research activity taking placeContinue Reading
Behind the Headlines: documenting the people in the Guardian Archive
We are delighted to announce that the Library is the proud recipient of this year’s Business Archives Council Cataloguing GrantContinue Reading
Breaking News from the Guardian Archive
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian Archive foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: Following our visit earlier this year to theContinue Reading
The Great Escape: as told by the reporters of the Guardian newspaper
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: The archive of the Manchester Guardian containsContinue Reading
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