We have recently completed a catalogue of the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), a leading Manchester architect and a prominent figure in the social and cultural life of the city during the Victorian period.
Did urbanisation and industrialisation cause religious faith to decline in eighteenth-century England? Correspondence from the Nicholson family of Manchester merchants suggests otherwise.
Manuscript collection containing documents relating to Ottoman-Dutch relations including correspondence between Leiden orientalist Jacobus Golius and Nicolas of Aleppo.
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for accessContinue Reading
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon who practised and lectured for many years in both Edinburgh and Glasgow but heContinue Reading
We recently made a very small but slightly unusual archival acquisition, in the form of a rather unassuming empty envelope. Continue Reading