This blog post, the second in our series, summarises the University of Manchester’s ongoing research project on film critic Caroline Lejeune, with reference to the contents of her archive held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
We celebrate World Elephant Day (12 August) with a guest blog post by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris-Marseille), on a Persian text about the origin of the mahout, or elephant keeper.
A blog by PhD placement student Hannah McAuliffe on her project with the Special Collections Teaching and Learning department.
British Pop Archive curator Mat Bancroft writes about Manchester’s Cities In The Park festival from 1991.
Guest researcher Dr Manjiri Thakoor writes on the making of the Mahabharata, and discusses the characteristics of the ‘Adi Parva’ and ‘Rama Vijaya’ held at the Rylands.
Ancient documentary papryi are difficult to read, but with careful attention they often reveal our common humanity.
1: The first post on the Incunabula Cataloguing Project, discussing the cataloguing of our world-class collection of 15th-century printed books.
The recently-catalogued diaries of Dr John Sims (1792-1838) provide some fascinating insights into the everyday life of a Quaker physician in Regency London.
The story of former student Richard Gordon Alsop and the Dutch foundation who are working to keep the memory of fallen soldiers alive.
Seventy five years ago, the University’s ‘Baby’ computer became the first electronic computer with a read/write memory to run a program. To mark this historic event, Professor Jim Miles (University of Manchester Department of Computer Science) describes how a definitive new image of the Manchester computer was recreated using rediscovered original negatives.