The Tony Dyson Collection
Matthew Schofield, one of our volunteers, reports on his work with the Tony Dyson collection: Working as a volunteer atContinue Reading
Category: Exhibitions
‘Burning Bright’: William Blake and the Art of the Book
Over the past two years, curators at the John Rylands Library have been working with the art historian Colin TroddContinue Reading
Ancient Building Plan
This floor plan, made in Sumeria in the Ur III period (circa 2100-2000 BC), is currently on display in theContinue Reading
The “Herstory” of an Arabic Manuscript
This post tells the life story of an Arabic manuscript of folk tales. The manuscript is not particularly old, norContinue Reading
Faces&Voices: Conserving and Protecting a Collection on Display
Guest posting by Elena May Griffith-Ward, MA candidate at the University of Birmingham, Heritage Management; Media and Communications Officer forContinue Reading
Dante and Petrarch in Florence
As part of our commitment to sharing our collections as widely as possible, we regularly loans printed books and manuscriptsContinue Reading
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689, A conference to mark the 350th anniversary ofContinue Reading
“In case of hysterical suffocation, take dried otters’ kidneys…”
Last Thursday the John Rylands Library hosted a dinner on behalf of Cancer Research UK and the new Manchester Cancer Research CentreContinue Reading