Rediscovering Frances Power Cobbe
Using our collections to reignite the work of this near-forgotten Victorian philosopher and figure in the women’s suffrage movement.
Category: Long read
‘A plan for Manchester and Salford’ and studying Robert Owen in Manchester
Guest author José Álvarez talks about two lesser-explored stages of Robert Owen’s life, drawing information from a beautiful map of Manchester and Salford
‘Take no distaste of my words, though they be a woman’s writing’
Guest author Dr. Naomi Baker discusses Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative (1636-7), one of the earliest known English conversion narratives, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War
Three Near-Identical Voltaire Letters
Guest authors Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Gillian Pink investigate a curious coincidence surrounding three near-identical letters by French philosopher Voltaire
3D printing Cuneiform 931
Senior Photographer Tony Richards writes about 3D printing a facsimile of Cuneiform 931 as a handling object for the public, alongside the original, at the Wellcome Collection as part of the Thirst: In Search of Water exhibition.
Digital Concrete: Reconstructing Frog, Pond, Plop
Jo Castle, senior photographer at the John Rylands Library, writes about creating a digital version of a radical translation of a poem about a frog
Celebrating Janmashtami the Persian Way: Sānval Singh and the Bhāgavat Purāṇa in Persian MS 961
A guest blog by Pranav Prakash, specialist in the comparative study of book arts, literary cultures and religions in South Asian and Persian societies
Some thoughts on dancing, a beautiful case of birds and the little scholar: a look at the Preachers’ Letters and Portraits archive
Cataloguing correspondence from the Methodist Archives and Research Centre collections
Missionary Helps Postcards, 1907-1921
By Prof Jean DeBernardi (Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Alberta)
Duchess, Queen, Witch – Joan of Navarre and Rylands Latin MS 22
Curator Anne Anderton writes about Joan of Navarre and her Psalter (Latin MS 22), which was recently reunited with its long-lost leaf