Making Brethren Women Visible
Christian Brethren Archive volunteer, Olivia Spencer writes: This series of blogs celebrates the lives of some of the Brethren womenContinue Reading
Tag: First World War
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
Cataloguing the First World War Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian
Lucy-Kay Brownson, a student on Liverpool University’s Master of Archives and Records Management course, writes: In January 2019, asContinue Reading
Remembering Armistice Day 1918
One hundred years ago today, on 11 November 1918, guns on the Western Front and other theatres of war fellContinue Reading
Manchester Hill Remembered
Jane Speller, Archivist, writes: On Sunday 10 June 2018 Manchester Central Library was buzzing with activity as over 60 groupsContinue Reading
Methodist Ministers at War: Wesleyan Chaplains of World War I
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany starting the countries involvement in what becameContinue Reading
Letters from the Front: A Soldier’s Experiences in the First World War
Penny Blackburn, an archive volunteer, writes: The Great War Letters of Arthur Powell, acquired by the Library in 2014, chronicleContinue Reading
University Academics and the First World War
Dr James Peters writes: The First World War not only dislocated the everyday work of the University’s academics, but alsoContinue Reading
Phantoms, Brains and Bodies: Geoffrey Jefferson and Rethinking the Mind, 1917-1939
Dr Rebecca Wynter (University of Birmingham) is currently a Visiting Research Fellow in the John Rylands Research Institute. She is studyingContinue Reading
A Manchester Clergyman’s Perspective on the First World War
A Special Collection volunteer, Isabel Sinagola, has been working on one of our less explored archive collections, the John JowittContinue Reading