Celebrating our 750th blog post
The Rylands blog reaches the landmark of 750 posts over almost ten years
Latest Posts
“I was so ill, and so low…” Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in England, 1750-1850
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Anna Jamieson, explores the mental health of women in 18th- and 19th-century England by examining the Rylands’ Mary Hamilton papers.
Newly catalogued: papers of art historian Professor Marcia Pointon
Papers of art historian Professor Marcia Pointon have recently been catalogued and made available to researchers
The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness (1877-1967)
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2022, this blog showcases the Grace Grattan Guinness archive, a small collection within the ChristianContinue Reading
International Women’s Day: Breaking the Bias with Our Special Collections
On International Women’s Day 2022 the Rylands reflects on what Special Collections can tell us (and what is left to discover) about the women who changed Manchester forever
Images of Martyrdom in an Early Modern Pilgrim’s Narrative
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
Chinese Bible Translation and Printing: Qing to Republic
Anastasiia Akulich explores the history of Bible translation and printing in China from the Qing Empire to the People’s Republic.
Creative Responses to the Carcanet Email Archive
creative responses to the Carcanet Email Archive
Calling all Occitanists: a unique copy of La reine Esther in Judeo-Provençal?
A Judeo-Occitan (Judeo-Provençal) manuscript in the Hebrew manuscript collection of the John Rylands Library, may turn out to be theContinue Reading
Palladium project guides for email archives
Guides for users and donors of email archives developed by the Palladium project.