“The world has a right to know what we are doing and how we are doing it.” -Manchester Civic Week
The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answerContinue Reading
Category: Exhibitions
Welcome to the Family: getting to know the staff of the Manchester Guardian
Blog post by Karen Jacques – co curator of ‘Manchester’s Guardian: 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper’ I have theContinue Reading
Guardian Exhibition: Anniversaries: The Guardian newspaper through time and place
This anniversary blog, written by the Guardian Exhibition Curator Janette Martin, highlights objects from our bicentenary exhibition and from theContinue Reading
Celebrating 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper
Hello! Our names are Kirat and Victoria and we are Masters students on the Art Gallery and Museum Studies courseContinue Reading
The Rylands Brief, a new podcast series
In collaboration with the Centre for New Writing and the Creative Manchester project, for the last month or so IContinue Reading
A historian’s reflections on Seeing the Invisible: Medieval Hidden Heritage Revealed (John Rylands Library, 30 October 2019–8 March 2020)
Dr Joanne Edge, our Latin Manuscripts Cataloguer, writes: In October 2019, a uniquely important manuscript was loaned to the JohnContinue Reading
Subvisible Bodies: Medical Microscopy in the Rylands Gallery
An exciting new display in the Rylands Gallery showcases items from the University of Manchester Library’s medical collections alongside intriguingContinue Reading
The Hidden Treasures of the Museum of Medicine and Health
Catherine Smith writes: In my role as a Reader Services assistant within Special Collections the best part of my jobContinue Reading
Inspiring Tomorrow’s History Teachers
A joint blog post by Dr Janette Martin (Special Collections Student Engagement Manager) and Thomas Donnai (Lecturer in Initial TeacherContinue Reading
Behind the Scenes – Steps to Organise an Exhibition
Ilaria Camerini writes: Walking in a gallery, enjoying the atmosphere created by the items showed in an exhibition, it’s aContinue Reading