Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium
The Library was very pleased for the second year to host and provide venue facilities for the annual Ecclesiastical HistoryContinue Reading
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Private Books for Educational Use – the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library
Tuesday 26 February 5.15-6.45pm Demonstration of a new digital resource charting how early nonconformist readers in Lancashire and Yorkshire interactedContinue Reading
The Tony Dyson Collection
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 Conserved
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, first published in 1665, is one the landmark works of science. It opened up the new disciplineContinue Reading
Archive Fever! Cataloguing the Freud Family Papers
As part of her Masters in Archives and Records Management course at the University of Liverpool, Louise Piffero has spentContinue Reading
‘Burning Bright’: William Blake and the Art of the Book
Over the past two years, curators at the John Rylands Library have been working with the art historian Colin TroddContinue Reading
A letter and envelope reunited
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
Il Libro del Cortegiano in Tudor England
The John Rylands Library holds an outstanding collection of editions of Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier)Continue Reading