Dr Kerry Pimblott and Mary Booth discuss the recently developed module ‘Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the Modern World’ for MA History students at The University of Manchester.
Jake Benson, Research Associate discusses his work of cataloguing the roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts that are held in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s collections.
Visiting Early Career research Fellow, Dr Ana Dias, explores the Rylands Visigothic Manuscripts.
Catherine Smith, Reader Services Assistant, writes: As well as looking after our readers in the Reading Rooms either in personContinue Reading
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr James Watts, explores the map collection of the Manchester Geographical Society (MGS).
Robert Poole, Professor of History, University of Central Lancashire discusses the Manchester Observer, Peterloo Massacre and their importance in the founding of the Manchester Guardian.
Dr Hannah Yip is a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow for 2020/21. Her project, ‘The Clergy and Artistic Recreation inContinue Reading
Dr. Sam Hyde discusses the connection between The Manchester Guardian, Nancy Cunard, the writer and civil rights activist and The Spanish Civil War.
How can we uncover the voices of the past? Christine Wallis delves into the world of 18th-century letters and their writers.
Research Fellows Ben Pope and Jake Benson follow the trail of nineteenth-century antiquarian Robert Goff, who left an enigmatic trace of his collecting activity in a manuscript from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger.