More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar. It reminded me that many cataloguesContinue Reading
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Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ catalogues of our manuscript collections, and these are now available as searchableContinue Reading
Scarlet Brings Home the Silver: Award for Augmented Reality Project
Last year The University of Manchester and Mimas won a much-coveted Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant from JISC to developContinue Reading
‘Good sport for collectors’ – Some Recent Ashendene Press Acquisitions
The golden age of the early English private press movement in the 1890s corresponded with the building and foundation ofContinue Reading
Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012)
We were greatly saddened to learn of the death in August of Sir Bernard Lovell, at age of 98. SirContinue Reading
Welcome to New History Staff
Misty mornings and shortening evenings remind us that summer is over (OK, it never really happened in Manchester), and thatContinue Reading
Faces&Voices: Conserving and Protecting a Collection on Display
Guest posting by Elena May Griffith-Ward, MA candidate at the University of Birmingham, Heritage Management; Media and Communications Officer forContinue Reading
‘Cotswold Olympics’, 1612
Amid all the excitement and media hype surrounding the London Olympics, it seems to have gone almost entirely unnoticed that thisContinue Reading
Warwick-Newberry Summer School Visit
Guest posting by Professor Simon Gilson, Department of Italian, University of Warwick: “The John Rylands Library recently hosted a studyContinue Reading
Society for Renaissance Studies Visits the Rylands
The Society for Renaissance Studies held is biennial conference at The University of Manchester last week, expertly organized by DrContinue Reading