Introducing the Terence Pepper Collection
Placement student Sophia Louise Lee talks about her experience cataloguing the Terence Pepper Collection.
Category: Collections
Madchester returns! Exploring the heritage of rave in the British Pop Archive
Dr Helen Holmes and Bruce Wilkinson The British Pop Archive was officially unveiled at the John Rylands Library in 2022. WeContinue Reading
No Rylands without us – Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
To mark the opening of the new Rylands exhibition ‘We Have Always Been Here’, poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan reflects on the Library archives from her position as a young Muslim woman.
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): Labour’s First Prime Minister
To mark the centenary of the formation of the first, short-lived Labour government, on 22 January 1924, Dr Janette Martin discusses the variety of sources at the John Rylands Library on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald.
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. IV: A collection of speeches and news of new horizons
A closer look at a bound-in volume containing numerous printed orations, among which is news of Portuguese explorations around the coast of Africa
Imaging watermarks
Senior photographer Tony Richards explains their research into imaging paper watermarks.
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. III: Sweynheym and Pannartz, the first printers in Italy
The John Rylands Library holds one of the most complete collections in the world of the first books to be printed in Italy
Delia Derbyshire Day 2023: 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, Dr Imogen Durant talks about the musician and composer Delia Derbyshire and her fascinating archive.
On the Fringes of the Small Press Scene: Solving the Hors Commerce Press Mystery
Reader services assistant and independent researcher Bruce Wilkinson talks about solving the mystery of the Hors Commerce Press.
Introducing the Humanitarian Archive
A brief introduction to the Humanitarian Archive by its new archivist, Flora Chatt.