Centenary of David Arkell, Journalist and Author
Journalist, translator, biographer and ‘literary sleuth’, David Arkell (1913-97) was born one hundred years ago today, on 23 August 1913,Continue Reading
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A Life in the Day of a Special Collections Curator
What do curators do all day? There is no such thing as a typical or standard day for a SpecialContinue Reading
Roxburghe Club Visits the Rylands
Members of the prestigious Roxburghe Club, the world’s oldest bibliophilic society, held their annual meeting at The John Rylands LibraryContinue Reading
Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society Archive Online
Manchester has a long association with Orientalist discourses. Many of the city’s cotton firms did business with Egypt and SouthContinue Reading
Medieval Chronicle Roll Fully Digitised
Colleagues in the Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) have digitised Latin MS 113, a late 15th-centuryContinue Reading
The Evangelization Society Archive: An Important New Resource for the Study of Christian Evangelism
The collections of The John Rylands Library relating to British Christianity are considered to be among the finest in theContinue Reading
‘Beyond the Text’: Literary Archives in the 21st Century
Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to give a paper at a symposium markingContinue Reading
Digitisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s Archive
The Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) has been awarded the contract to digitise the vast archive of CardinalContinue Reading
Manchester Museum Archive
Dr James Peters writes: Special Collections has recently taken in the first consignment of the archive of Manchester Museum. The archiveContinue Reading
Charles Wesley in the Spotlight: Publication of the Complete Letters of the Great Hymn Writer and Evangelist
Gareth Lloyd writes: Charles Wesley (1707-88) is regarded by many people as the finest hymn writer in the Christian tradition.Continue Reading