Alberto Manguel at the John Rylands Library
We are delighted to be hosting a day-long event on Working With Archives on Friday 4 March. Organised by the NorthContinue Reading
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The Victor Hugo Papers
Josselin Blieck, who is completing an MA in Archives and Records Management at the University of Burgundy (Dijon), undertook anContinue Reading
My Second Country, France: Robert Dell (1865-1940)
Project Archivist Jane Speller writes: The 1930s foreign correspondence of the Manchester Guardian (now the Guardian) reveals journalist Robert DellContinue Reading
What the Papers Say
Project Archivist Jane Speller writes: A new archive project funded by the John Rylands Research Institute aims to unlock theContinue Reading
The Art of Correspondence: Percy Kelly’s Illustrated Letters
Last year we celebrated the centenary of Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson (1914-1987), and the year finished on a high note withContinue Reading
A Manchester Clergyman’s Perspective on the First World War
A Special Collection volunteer, Isabel Sinagola, has been working on one of our less explored archive collections, the John JowittContinue Reading
Safeguarding the Digital Legacy Award – we won!
At a ceremony held last week in London, we were proud to receive one of the biennial Digital Preservation AwardsContinue Reading
Carcanet Project shortlisted for international award
Our Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project has been selected as one of the finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards. Administered byContinue Reading
UMIST Archives Cataloguing Project
We have recently completed a project to survey and partly catalogue the important archives of the Principal and Registrar ofContinue Reading
A Man of Letters and Words
Jane Speller writes: This final blog about the Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth Archive cataloguing project looks at his literary interests.Continue Reading