Digitisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s Archive
The Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) has been awarded the contract to digitise the vast archive of CardinalContinue Reading
Tag: Digitisation
Buffalo Bill Scrap Book – A Hidden Treasure of the John Rylands Library
Considerable public and scholarly interest has recently been aroused by a scrapbook of memorabilia that documents a fascinating and significantContinue Reading
Ancient Building Plan
This floor plan, made in Sumeria in the Ur III period (circa 2100-2000 BC), is currently on display in theContinue Reading
Multispectral Imaging at CHICC
CLICK for an animated gif showing the sequence of the light panels across the spectrum, from UV through visible toContinue Reading
Manchester Contributes to the Friedberg Genizah Project
The John Rylands Library has recently agreed to contribute high quality images and metadata of its Genizah Collection to the Friedberg Genizah ProjectContinue Reading
Digitisation of Ancient Cuneiform Texts
We are excited to announce that the John Rylands Library Cuneiform collection is now available online via the Cuneiform Digital LibraryContinue Reading
Catholic Archivists Congregate at the John Rylands Library
The curatorial and technical expertise of Special Collections staff was on full display recently as we hosted a training day for the CatholicContinue Reading
More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar. It reminded me that many cataloguesContinue Reading
Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ catalogues of our manuscript collections, and these are now available as searchableContinue Reading
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