Curious Find – Love Letters
Today’s Curious Find is a book of real letters that reveal the love story between a man and woman, andContinue Reading
Category: Collections
Centenary of the Destruction of the University of Leuven Library
Next month marks the centenary of one of the most notorious incidents of the First World War, the destruction ofContinue Reading
Glory Through Print: Emperor Maximilian I
George Spearing writes: The Hiero von Holtorp collection has been subject to an ongoing cataloguing project facilitated by The JohnContinue Reading
A Woman’s Life: Blanche Marion Kay-Shuttleworth
Jane Speller writes: In recent weeks I have reported on the Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth archive cataloguing project. Funded byContinue Reading
Preserving the Email Explosion
During the past two years, the Library has been engaged in an innovative project to rescue and preserve the emailContinue Reading
Dying Giants of the Countryside – E. Mitford Abraham’s Windmills and Watermills
The extent of my knowledge about windmills and watermills is mainly derived from Windy Miller and Maggie Tulliver, so IContinue Reading
Shedding Light on the Celebrated Victorian Educationalist, Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth
Jane Speller writes: A new cataloguing project funded by the John Rylands Research Institute aims to illuminate the life of theContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – June 2014
The final seminar session for this 2013/14 year is on Wednesday 18 June 2014, 2.00–5.00 pm. In a wide-ranging wrap-upContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – May 2014
The next seminar session is on Wednesday 21 May 2014, 3.30–5.00 pm. Our speakers are: Rachel Winchcombe (University of Manchester):Continue Reading