Catholic Archivists Congregate at the John Rylands Library
The curatorial and technical expertise of Special Collections staff was on full display recently as we hosted a training day for the CatholicContinue Reading
Category: Collections
More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar. It reminded me that many cataloguesContinue Reading
Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ catalogues of our manuscript collections, and these are now available as searchableContinue Reading
Scarlet Brings Home the Silver: Award for Augmented Reality Project
Last year The University of Manchester and Mimas won a much-coveted Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant from JISC to developContinue Reading
‘Good sport for collectors’ – Some Recent Ashendene Press Acquisitions
The golden age of the early English private press movement in the 1890s corresponded with the building and foundation ofContinue Reading
Welcome to New History Staff
Misty mornings and shortening evenings remind us that summer is over (OK, it never really happened in Manchester), and thatContinue Reading
‘Cotswold Olympics’, 1612
Amid all the excitement and media hype surrounding the London Olympics, it seems to have gone almost entirely unnoticed that thisContinue Reading
Society for Renaissance Studies Visits the Rylands
The Society for Renaissance Studies held is biennial conference at The University of Manchester last week, expertly organized by DrContinue Reading
Library Acquires Important Holman Hunt Letters
The Library already holds one of the most important collections of letters and papers of the Pre-Raphaelite artist William HolmanContinue Reading
Armenian Printing in London
A recent enquiry from John A. Lane, a freelance historian of printing types, typefounding and type specimens, who has justContinue Reading