Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
In this post on the John Rylands Research Institute blog, Anne Anderton writes: The University of Manchester Library has recentlyContinue Reading
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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, asContinue Reading
A Closer Look at the Manchester Observer (1819–1822)
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our current exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, writes: The spring and summer of 1819Continue Reading
Jeff Nuttall and the William S. Burroughs Connection
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Described in his Guardian obituary by Mike Horovitz as a ‘catalyst, perpetrator and champion of rebellion andContinue 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
Arthur Moyse: Artist, Critic and Bus Conductor
Bruce Wilkinson writes: When Dave Cunliffe moved to London in the late-1950s he befriended ‘artist, critic and bus conductor’ ArthurContinue Reading
Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts at the John Rylands Library
Dr Jo Edge writes: I’ve been employed at the John Rylands Library since August 2018, tasked with creating digital catalogueContinue 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
Opening up the Peterloo Collections at the University of Manchester Library
Dr Janette Martin writes: The University of Manchester Library has digitised a second tranche of unique documents and rare printedContinue Reading
“Good Blood, Bad Blood”: A Petite Exhibit on Menstruation in the Rylands Gallery #2
This is the second of two blog posts to accompany a display in Rylands Gallery. The first post focused onContinue Reading