Archives Travelled Throughout July
The John Rylands Library are contributing to the national social media campaign Explore Your Archive throughout the month of July.Continue Reading
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Digitisation of Letters by Charles Dickens in the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for accessContinue Reading
Book for a Cardinal
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostlyContinue Reading
Drawing Dissection: Medical Illustrations by Joseph Jordan’s Apprentice Digitised
I’m delighted to announce the recent digitisation of two unique books from our 19th-century medical collections. Available online in fullContinue Reading
16th-Century Italian Books: A New Partnership
The Census of Italian 16th-Century Editions (EDIT 16) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and atContinue Reading
The Papers of Peter Good: An Accrual to the Dave Cunliffe Archive
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Dave Cunliffe spent much of the early 1970s in Blackburn’s alternative bookshop Amamus. Increasingly a magnet forContinue Reading
Stories in a Box, Part 1: Dostoevsky
Turning to leave one of our manuscript storage areas I saw a box labelled Small Russian Manuscripts. Curious – IContinue Reading
Advanced Imaging Techniques, Supporting Research with Special Collections
The Imaging team offer a suite of Advanced Imaging techniques to support innovative and multidisciplinary research with our Special Collections.Continue Reading
Cataloguing the Papers of Elfrida Vipont
Nicole McNeill writes: Over the last few months I have been cataloguing the Elfrida Vipont collection to make its contentsContinue Reading
Acquisition of The Papers of Alison Brackenbury
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the papers of poet and broadcaster Alison Brackenbury. Alison has thus farContinue Reading