Rylands Reflects: Enriqueta Rylands’s first home
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
The second of two posts written by University of Manchester MA students Hannah Banks and Matthew Bridson, who have been working with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on the project ‘Redressing colonial perspectives in Echoes of Service Archives’.
The first of two posts written by University of Manchester MA students Hannah Banks and Matthew Bridson, who have been working with the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on the project ‘Redressing colonial perspectives in Echoes of Service Archives’.
Part of the ‘Rylands Reflects’ series, in this post Lianne Smith summarises some developments in working practices since the University of Manchester Library’s statement on diversifying our collections and practices was shared last summer.
Representation Matters, Angel Cossigny talks about her quest to find intersectional figures in our collections.
This post considers how Enriqueta Ryland’s father and his British compatriots were complicit in the oppression of enslaved people in Cuba.
Part of the ‘Rylands reflects’ series, in this blog the Visitor Engagement Team share their suggestions for inspirational figures to feature in a re-imagined Historic Reading Room.
Warnings for Collections and Catalogues.