A turn-up for the book(s)
Reader Services Assistant, Angela Petyt-Whittaker, reveals a most surprising find… Whilst working in The John Rylands Library for the pastContinue Reading
Reader Services Assistant, Angela Petyt-Whittaker, reveals a most surprising find… Whilst working in The John Rylands Library for the pastContinue Reading
The University of Manchester Library is about to undertake an exciting new project, codename Palladium, which will include exploration ofContinue Reading
Dr Joanne Edge, our Latin Manuscripts Cataloguer, writes: In October 2019, a uniquely important manuscript was loaned to the JohnContinue Reading
Thanks to the great work of my predecessor Fran Baker, the UoM Special Collections hold the email archive of CarcanetContinue Reading
Dr Joanne Edge writes: I am just coming to the end of a 17-month stint setting up an online catalogueContinue Reading
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Helping research the Mark Warner photographic archive at The John Rylands Library, I was delighted to findContinue Reading
The anti-slavery anthology The Bow in the Cloud, published in 1834, came with international aspirations. It was roughly an 8-year project, one that sought to bolster various abolitionist movements throughout the world.
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate.Continue Reading
Dr Victoria Stobo writes: Exciting news for poetry lovers: an exhibition of archive material relating to the poetry publisher CarcanetContinue Reading
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer andContinue Reading