Tuesday 26 February 5.15-6.45pm Demonstration of a new digital resource charting how early nonconformist readers in Lancashire and Yorkshire interactedContinue Reading
Matthew Schofield, one of our volunteers, reports on his work with the Tony Dyson collection: Working as a volunteer atContinue Reading
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, first published in 1665, is one the landmark works of science. It opened up the new disciplineContinue Reading
As part of her Masters in Archives and Records Management course at the University of Liverpool, Louise Piffero has spentContinue Reading
Over the past two years, curators at the John Rylands Library have been working with the art historian Colin TroddContinue Reading
We recently made a very small but slightly unusual archival acquisition, in the form of a rather unassuming empty envelope. Continue Reading
Stephen Emmel’s paper on “The Coptic Manuscript Collection of Alexander Lindsay, 25th Earl of Crawford” suggests that Tattam acquired someContinue Reading
The John Rylands Library holds an outstanding collection of editions of Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier)Continue Reading
I hope the delightful image above sets a suitably festive tone to what will probably be our last posting ofContinue Reading