Rylands Reflects: From Matanzas to Manchester
Content warning: This post discusses family connections to slavery and the plantation economy in 19th-century Cuba. These histories reflect theContinue Reading
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Rylands Reflects: Returning to the Reunion Deseada
Content warning: This post includes depictions of enslaved people and the conditions in which they lived. The images reflect attitudesContinue Reading
Votes for Women! Inspiration in words and pictures.
The second blog in our series on Votes for Women.
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
Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research project so far (part 2)
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’.
Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research project so far (part 1)
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’.
Diversifying our collections and practices: reflecting upon actions so far
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.
Rylands Reflects: Representation Matters
Representation Matters, Angel Cossigny talks about her quest to find intersectional figures in our collections.