Rylands Reflects: Enriqueta Rylands’s first home
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
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Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
Rylands Reflects: What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John RylandsContinue Reading
The Book Stops Here…or Tome Alone – Reading Room in Lockdown
The Reader Engagement Team feel immensely privileged to work in such a special environment, where we get to help readersContinue Reading
Ancoats Survey 1937-38: A Study of a Clearance Area
The Library has looked after the archives of Manchester Settlement (formerly Manchester University Settlement) for many years. The Settlement hasContinue Reading
The Reformation – Luther and the lamp
The Reformation exhibition at the John Rylands Library marks 500 years since Luther declared his famous 95 theses (see Renegade,Continue Reading
A plethora of pamphlets
Religion has always been a key part of the collections in the John Rylands Library, particularly Christianity. While he wasContinue Reading
Roxburghe Club Bicentenary
June 2012 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Roxburghe Club, the world’s oldest and most prestigious bibliophilic society.Continue Reading