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
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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
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) Map Cataloguing Project
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester,Continue Reading
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
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 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