Can You Name 5 Women Artists?
In this, Women’s History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts is challenging people to name 5 womenContinue Reading
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Chinese Educational Texts of the Late Qing Dynasty
As part of our ongoing work on the library’s Chinese collections (see previous blog post) we are beginning to digitiseContinue Reading
Improvements to the Special Collections Reading Room
Over the summer we’ll be refurbishing the Special Collections Reading Room here at The John Rylands Library. The refurbishment willContinue Reading
Portrait of a Living Archive
It’s with great excitement that we can announce that descriptions of The Portrait of a Living Archive photographs are nowContinue Reading
How to Ask for a Residency
Rosie Garland writes: Since I wrote about the Power of Asking, I’ve been heartened by how many writers have toldContinue Reading
Unknown Cranach Work Discovered in the John Rylands Library
Issue 94.2 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, published by Manchester University Press, contains a very special article byContinue Reading
The Hidden Gems of dsh
Post by Karen Jacques and Clare Baker, Collections Assistants at the John Rylands Library: Over the last 12 months we’veContinue Reading
A Comprehensive Variety: The Rylands Chinese Collections
From May 2018 to January 2019, Johannes Lotze worked on the library’s Chinese collections and produced a report covering theContinue Reading
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
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