‘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
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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
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689, A conference to mark the 350th anniversary ofContinue Reading
A Visit from the Doctors
Earlier this week a group of fourth-year medical students from the University of Manchester interrupted their busy schedules working onContinue Reading
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we thought it would be nice to show a couple of images from the UniversityContinue Reading