The Manchester Guardian and the Irish Question: Evolution of Newspaper and Nation
Kathy Davies explores the Guardian’s reporting on the complex subject of Irish home rule in the early part of the 20th Century.
Tag: Exhibitions
Welcome to the Family: getting to know the staff of the Manchester Guardian
Blog post by Karen Jacques – co curator of ‘Manchester’s Guardian: 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper’ I have theContinue Reading
Guardian Exhibition: Anniversaries: The Guardian newspaper through time and place
This anniversary blog, written by the Guardian Exhibition Curator Janette Martin, highlights objects from our bicentenary exhibition and from theContinue Reading
Showcasing the Carcanet exhibition
The Carcanet archives are living and growing constantly: this brings exciting research and outreach opportunities, an example being the exhibitionContinue Reading
A historian’s reflections on Seeing the Invisible: Medieval Hidden Heritage Revealed (John Rylands Library, 30 October 2019–8 March 2020)
Dr Joanne Edge, our Latin Manuscripts Cataloguer, writes: In October 2019, a uniquely important manuscript was loaned to the JohnContinue Reading
Inspiring Tomorrow’s History Teachers
A joint blog post by Dr Janette Martin (Special Collections Student Engagement Manager) and Thomas Donnai (Lecturer in Initial TeacherContinue Reading
How the ‘Women Who Shaped Manchester’ exhibition inspired our podcast ‘Tea with Aurora Leigh’
English Literature students Jamie-Leigh Simkins, Megan Cronin, Maisie Scott and Clare Hardy reveal how an exhibition at the John RylandsContinue Reading
Save the Date: Carcanet and the indie poetry-publishing scene exhibition, 30th September 2019
Dr Victoria Stobo writes: Exciting news for poetry lovers: an exhibition of archive material relating to the poetry publisher CarcanetContinue Reading
“Good Blood, Bad Blood”: A Petite Exhibit on Menstruation in the Rylands Gallery #2
This is the second of two blog posts to accompany a display in Rylands Gallery. The first post focused onContinue Reading
“Peculiar and Marvellous”: A Petite Exhibit on Menstruation in the Rylands Gallery #1
This is the first of two blog posts to accompany a display in Rylands Gallery. This first post explores 19thContinue Reading