Rylands Reflects: From Matanzas to Manchester
Content warning: This post discusses family connections to slavery and the plantation economy in 19th-century Cuba. These histories reflect theContinue Reading
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Rylands Reflects: Returning to the Reunion Deseada
Content warning: This post includes depictions of enslaved people and the conditions in which they lived. The images reflect attitudesContinue Reading
An Undiscoverable Secret? The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the final blog post of this series, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals how Thomas J. Wise’s pirating of RobertContinue Reading
The Dead Tell No Tales: The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the second of three posts, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals the impact of Thomas J. Wise’s forgeries on theContinue Reading
“The Moriarty of the Book World”: Thomas J. Wise at The John Rylands Library
PhD student Ellesse Patterson reflects on the relationship between The John Rylands Library and one of Britain’s most notorious literaryContinue Reading
Manchester’s Global Connections Past and Present: Co-Creating Knowledge Through Collection Encounters
Dr Josephine Tierney reflects on how a conversation at one of the library’s Collection Encounters led to an exciting discovery,Continue Reading
Behind the scenes Collections Guest post Long read Manuscripts Photography Series Visual Collections
Snapshots from Sinai: James Rendel Harris and the Search for Manuscripts
By Molly Sutherland, University of Manchester MA Library and Archives student. This is the second blog in a series. MyContinue Reading
Behind the scenes Collections Guest post Long read Manuscripts Photography Series Visual Collections
“Abundantly justified”: Glass plate photography at The John Rylands Library
By Molly Sutherland, University of Manchester MA Library and Archives student. In May I finished a 20-day placement with theContinue Reading
‘We are just ordinary people who believe the Bible, and have found in the Christian faith something real’: the intriguing story of Parkhill Chapel
Reader Services Assistant Angela Petyt-Whittaker writes about exploring the history and significance of a Brethren chapel’s archive.
Rylands Reminiscences: Insights into life at the John Rylands Library in the 1950s and ’60s
John Hodgson interviews former member of staff Brenda Scragg on working at the John Rylands Library in the 1950s and 60s.