Arthur Gook and the trouble with letters
MA student Alex Tunstall shares her reflections on cataloguing the Echoes of Service correspondence files
Category: Guest post
Far from Being in the ‘Most Useless’ Place: Linking John Rylands Coptic Manuscripts with the Coptic Community
Dr Sarah Parkhouse and Professor Peter Oakes write about their pilot project exploring the treasure trove of Coptic manuscripts at the John Rylands Library.
Death by Hunger: Malcolm Muggeridge and the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933
By Rose Burke (MA student, Library and Archive Studies at the University of Manchester)
A Surprise Visit With Peter Doyle, Walt Whitman’s Most Significant Other
Prof. Karen Karbiener discusses the discovery of an 1868 carte de visite in the John Rylands Library’s Whitman Collection
J.N. Darby and the curious case of the missing greatcoat
By Prof Crawford Gribben
From Evil Eyes to Lost Friendships: Tales from the Gaster Amulet Collection
Amulet cataloguer Dr Gal Sofer gives you an expert’s insight into our fascinating amulet collection.
Elephants and Mahouts in Persianate South Asia
We celebrate World Elephant Day (12 August) with a guest blog post by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris-Marseille), on a Persian text about the origin of the mahout, or elephant keeper.
A new view of the Manchester Computer
Seventy five years ago, the University’s ‘Baby’ computer became the first electronic computer with a read/write memory to run a program. To mark this historic event, Professor Jim Miles (University of Manchester Department of Computer Science) describes how a definitive new image of the Manchester computer was recreated using rediscovered original negatives.
Li Yuan-chia: Life and Art through the Camera Lens
Two of our placement students talk about their work with the photography collection of Li Yuan-Chia.
Experimenting with Print
The dating of a mysterious woodblock