‘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
Category: Collections
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
Roxburghe Club Bicentenary
June 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Roxburghe Club, the world’s oldest and most prestigious bibliophilic society.Continue Reading
A Visit from the Doctors
Earlier this week a group of fourth-year medical students from the University of Manchester interrupted their busy schedules working onContinue Reading
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we thought it would be nice to show a couple of images from the UniversityContinue Reading
Welcome to our blog
Welcome to the John Rylands Library’s Special Collection blog. With fabulous collections and lots of exciting things going on, weContinue Reading