Revealing the Rylands: Making Sense of the Medieval
Through our social media channels, this week we are featuring images from our medieval European collections. Visitor Engagement Assistant Lee Brooks,Continue Reading
Category: Guest post
A Novice Archivist and the Papers of R. H. Wilenski
Hannah Smith, a student from the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies, writes about her cataloguing placement at the JohnContinue Reading
Life in the unknown: Alfred Alsop’s slum stories
This is the second blog in our series on Manchester’s Wood Street Mission by Max Maxfield, History MA student atContinue Reading
Recipes, Cakes and Puddings: Box listing the Work of Alison Brackenbury
Leah Watson writes: Hello! I’m Leah Watson, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester studying MA History. I haveContinue Reading
Travels through Tokugawa Japan
Dr Sonia Favi explores the travel literature of early modern Japan.
Exploring the Wood Street Mission
This is the first in a series of blog posts by Clio Flaherty and Max Maxfield on the History of the Wood Street Mission. Their MA project at The John Rylands Library will reveal hidden stories from a long-established Manchester children’s charity.
Teaching Spotlight: Art in Medieval Books
Click here to view this blogpost. Reblogged from https://manchesterarthistory.wordpress.com/.
Frederick Bearman Research Grant 2019: Islamic Slipcase Project
Click here to take a look at this blog-post from David Plummer, featuring Islamic slip-cases that are held in theContinue Reading
Rosie’s Reflections on a Writing Residency
Rosie Garland writes: It’s been an amazing year. What an honour to be Inaugural Writer-in-Residence at The John Rylands Library.Continue Reading
Event Report – The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counter-Culture and Now
This blogpost, by student interns Ami Savage and Marnie Parker, was first published on the Art History UoM Index blog.Continue Reading