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by Fran Baker August 5, 2014 11

Elizabeth Gaskell’s Inbox

We recently entered our Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project for one of this year’s Digital Preservation Awards. Each institution wasContinue Reading

by Fran Baker June 30, 2014 4

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Preserving the Email Explosion

During the past two years, the Library has been engaged in an innovative project to rescue and preserve the emailContinue Reading

by John Hodgson August 23, 2013 0

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Centenary of David Arkell, Journalist and Author

Journalist, translator, biographer and ‘literary sleuth’, David Arkell (1913-97) was born one hundred years ago today, on 23 August 1913,Continue Reading

by Fran Baker May 28, 2013 0

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‘Beyond the Text’: Literary Archives in the 21st Century

Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to give a paper at a symposium markingContinue Reading

by John Hodgson December 20, 2012 0

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Highlights from the Rylands Modern Literary Archives Programme in 2012

On 7 December, we held the annual meeting of our Modern Literary Archives Programme (MLAP) Steering Group – providing theContinue Reading

by John Hodgson December 17, 2012 0

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Tenth Annual Rylands Poetry Reading: Sir Geoffrey Hill

Thursday 6 December saw the tenth annual Rylands Poetry Reading. This prestigious programme of readings was inaugurated by the BoardContinue Reading