‘There is Something for You in this Train’: The Hocking Collection
The Hocking Collection contains novels, short stories, and other writings by the Cornish siblings Silas Kitto Hocking (1850-1935), Salome HockingContinue Reading
Category: Long read
Charles Wesley’s ‘Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending’
Archivist Paul Carlyle discusses Charles Wesley’s famous hymns, ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ and ‘Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending’.
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. VIII: Blockbooks (Part 2) – it’s the Apocalypse (again) and the Pauper’s Bible
A look at two rare blockbooks in their original 15th century binding
The art and times of a Yorkshire suffragist – republishing Florence Lockwood’s memoir
Curator Janette Martin writes about working on a revised edition of Florence Lockwood’s memoir ‘An Ordinary Life’
Sonilluminations at the Rylands
A sound installation by researcher and composer Patrick John Jones, inspired by the archives of the John Rylands Library
A 3D farewell to Dr John Hodgson
3D scanning and printing the John and Enriqueta Rylands statues as a gift for Dr John Hodgson
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. VII: Blockbooks (Part 1) and the Apocalypse!
An introduction to the blockbook collection and possibly the oldest printed European book to exist
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. VI: The Mainz Catholicon of 1460
The first non-religious book to be printed … or was it?
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. V: An early astronomical calendar and an innovation in book design
A description of Johannes Regiomontanus’ Kalendarium of 1476
James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): Labour’s First Prime Minister
To mark the centenary of the formation of the first, short-lived Labour government, on 22 January 1924, Dr Janette Martin discusses the variety of sources at the John Rylands Library on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald.