Forthcoming AMARC Meeting at The John Rylands Library
AMARC (the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections) is holding its Autumn 2013 meeting at The John RylandsContinue Reading
AMARC (the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections) is holding its Autumn 2013 meeting at The John RylandsContinue Reading
Dr Renate Smithuis and Professor Philip Alexander have edited a volume entitled From Cairo to Manchester: Studies in the RylandsContinue Reading
Journalist, translator, biographer and ‘literary sleuth’, David Arkell (1913-97) was born one hundred years ago today, on 23 August 1913,Continue Reading
What do curators do all day? There is no such thing as a typical or standard day for a SpecialContinue Reading
Members of the prestigious Roxburghe Club, the world’s oldest bibliophilic society, held their annual meeting at The John Rylands LibraryContinue Reading
Manchester has a long association with Orientalist discourses. Many of the city’s cotton firms did business with Egypt and SouthContinue Reading
Colleagues in the Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) have digitised Latin MS 113, a late 15th-centuryContinue Reading
The collections of The John Rylands Library relating to British Christianity are considered to be among the finest in theContinue Reading
Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to give a paper at a symposium markingContinue Reading
The Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) has been awarded the contract to digitise the vast archive of CardinalContinue Reading