The Very Visible Suffragettes
The greatest impulse of the suffragettes was to create a disturbance. To make themselves seen and heard so that theContinue Reading
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Rapture and Reason Revisited
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: In September 2016 the University of Manchester Library digitised and placed online a collection of 153Continue Reading
From Wild West to West End: ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook and Performances of Frontier Manhood
Stevie Watson, a PhD student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, writes about our ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook, EnglishContinue Reading
Peterloo: The Forgotten Massacre?
Dr Janette Martin, curator of a forthcoming Peterloo exhibition at the John Rylands Library, writes: On 16 August 1819 aContinue Reading
From Hair Restorer to Industrial Health: Cataloguing the Manchester Medical Collection (1801-1949)
I joined the Special Collections team in March as part of an exciting new project to catalogue and promote engagementContinue Reading
Digitisation of a Letterbook of John Nelson Darby
I am pleased to announce a new addition to the digitised material for the Christian Brethren Archive, a letterbook ofContinue Reading
‘The past is a foreign country’: L. P. Hartley’s The Go-Between
The BBC’s new dramatization of The Go-Between, broadcast on 20 September 2015, seems a suitable occasion to highlight our substantial archive ofContinue Reading
Stereoscopic Images of the First World War
In February the article ‘In a Stetson and Three Dimensions: Picasso Comes to Life in 60 Year Old Pictures’ fromContinue Reading