Rylands Reflects: From Matanzas to Manchester
Content warning: This post discusses family connections to slavery and the plantation economy in 19th-century Cuba. These histories reflect theContinue Reading
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Rylands Reflects: Returning to the Reunion Deseada
Content warning: This post includes depictions of enslaved people and the conditions in which they lived. The images reflect attitudesContinue Reading
An Undiscoverable Secret? The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the final blog post of this series, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals how Thomas J. Wise’s pirating of RobertContinue Reading
The Dead Tell No Tales: The Afterlives of Thomas J. Wise’s Forgeries
In the second of three posts, PhD student Ellesse Patterson reveals the impact of Thomas J. Wise’s forgeries on theContinue Reading
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
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