New Publication – From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the Rylands Genizah Fragments
Dr Renate Smithuis and Professor Philip Alexander have edited a volume entitled From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the RylandsContinue Reading
Category: Collections
Centenary of David Arkell, Journalist and Author
Journalist, translator, biographer and ‘literary sleuth’, David Arkell (1913-97) was born one hundred years ago today, on 23 August 1913,Continue Reading
A Life in the Day of a Special Collections Curator
What do curators do all day? There is no such thing as a typical or standard day for a SpecialContinue Reading
Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive Online
Manchester has a long association with Orientalist discourses. Many of the city’s cotton firms did business with Egypt and SouthContinue Reading
Medieval Chronicle Roll Fully Digitised
Colleagues in the Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) have digitised Latin MS 113, a late 15th-centuryContinue Reading
The Evangelization Society Archive: An Important New Resource for the Study of Christian Evangelism
The collections of The John Rylands Library relating to British Christianity are considered to be among the finest in theContinue Reading
‘Beyond the Text’: Literary Archives in the 21st Century
Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to give a paper at a symposium markingContinue Reading
Digitisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s Archive
The Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) has been awarded the contract to digitise the vast archive of CardinalContinue Reading
Manchester Museum Archive
Dr James Peters writes: Special Collections has recently taken in the first consignment of the archive of Manchester Museum. The archiveContinue Reading
The Thomas Allan Collection – A Major Resource for 19th-Century British Studies
Thomas Allan was a solicitor and political adviser to the Wesleyan Methodists and was considered one of the most influentialContinue Reading