John Goodwin on Zechariah 13:3
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate.Continue Reading
Category: Guest post
Hidden Stories: Behind The Night Brother for Museums at Night 2019
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
Book for a Cardinal
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostlyContinue Reading
Pietro Antonio Ferro: An Italian Painter and his Book
Sara D’Amico spent three months working with us as part of the EU Erasmus+ training scheme. Her project focused onContinue Reading
The Writings of Vavasor Powell in the John Rylands Collection: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John RylandsContinue Reading
Cataloguing the First World War Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian
Lucy-Kay Brownson, a student on Liverpool University’s Master of Archives and Records Management course, writes: In January 2019, as partContinue Reading
A Book of Ours: Manchester’s “Homeless” Engage with our Manuscripts
The Library is working with the arts organisation arthur+martha to facilitate the making of an illuminated manuscript at the Booth CentreContinue Reading
How to Ask for a Residency
Rosie Garland writes: Since I wrote about the Power of Asking, I’ve been heartened by how many writers have toldContinue Reading
Heraldry for German Princes by a Prince amongst German Painters
Continuing the theme of our previous blog post, Dr Ben Pope of the University of Tübingen writes about his recentContinue Reading
A Comprehensive Variety: The Rylands Chinese Collections
From May 2018 to January 2019, Johannes Lotze worked on the library’s Chinese collections and produced a report covering theContinue Reading