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
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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
Dante and Petrarch in Florence
As part of our commitment to sharing our collections as widely as possible, we regularly loans printed books and manuscriptsContinue Reading
Library Acquires Important Holman Hunt Letters
The Library already holds one of the most important collections of letters and papers of the Pre-Raphaelite artist William HolmanContinue Reading
Armenian Printing in London
A recent enquiry from John A. Lane, a freelance historian of printing types, typefounding and type specimens, who has justContinue Reading
Roxburghe Club Bicentenary
June 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Roxburghe Club, the world’s oldest and most prestigious bibliophilic society.Continue Reading