A Chaplain’s Story: The Great War Journey of John Henry Gibbon
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: In September 2018, the Library accepted on deposit into the Methodist archives a small collection ofContinue Reading
Tag: Egypt
Rediscovered: George Hugh Gough and Anglo-Egyptian War
James Peters writes: This is the first in an occasional series of Special Collections Blog posts describing some of ourContinue Reading
The “Herstory” of an Arabic Manuscript
This post tells the life story of an Arabic manuscript of folk tales. The manuscript is not particularly old, norContinue 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
Faces&Voices: Conserving and Protecting a Collection on Display
Guest posting by Elena May Griffith-Ward, MA candidate at the University of Birmingham, Heritage Management; Media and Communications Officer forContinue Reading
“In case of hysterical suffocation, take dried otters’ kidneys…”
Last Thursday the John Rylands Library hosted a dinner on behalf of Cancer Research UK and the new Manchester Cancer Research CentreContinue Reading