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
Category: Research
The Palladium project and survey for researchers who use email archives
The University of Manchester Library is about to undertake an exciting new project, codename Palladium, which will include exploration ofContinue Reading
A historian’s reflections on Seeing the Invisible: Medieval Hidden Heritage Revealed (John Rylands Library, 30 October 2019–8 March 2020)
Dr Joanne Edge, our Latin Manuscripts Cataloguer, writes: In October 2019, a uniquely important manuscript was loaned to the JohnContinue Reading
Introducing ePADD for email archives at the University of Manchester
Thanks to the great work of my predecessor Fran Baker, the UoM Special Collections hold the email archive of CarcanetContinue Reading
Cataloguing Manuscripts: A Historian’s Reflections
Dr Joanne Edge writes: I am just coming to the end of a 17-month stint setting up an online catalogueContinue Reading
Cath Carroll: Words & Music
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Helping research the Mark Warner photographic archive at The John Rylands Library, I was delighted to findContinue Reading
The Making of an Anti-Slavery Anthology: Mary-Anne Rawson and ‘The Bow in the Cloud’ (Part 1)
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.
John Goodwin on Zechariah 13:3
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate.Continue Reading
Save the Date: Carcanet and the indie poetry-publishing scene exhibition, 30th September 2019
Dr Victoria Stobo writes: Exciting news for poetry lovers: an exhibition of archive material relating to the poetry publisher CarcanetContinue Reading
Cataloguing the Collection of Langford Brooke Glass Plate Negatives
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer andContinue Reading