ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 3 – Looking at the images
In Part 3 of our ICP placements series, MA students Kai and Yunshuang talk about some of the Li Yuan-chia images they have digitised from 35mm slides.
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ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 2 – How the students are getting on
In Part 2 of our ICP placements series, MA students Kai and Yunshuang reflect on their experience so far.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 1 – Specialist digitisation of the Li Yuan-chia Collection
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 1
#Archive30
For the month of April we are joining in #Archive30.
“I was so ill, and so low…” Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in England, 1750-1850
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Anna Jamieson, explores the mental health of women in 18th- and 19th-century England by examining the Rylands’ Mary Hamilton papers.
International Women’s Day: Breaking the Bias with Our Special Collections
On International Women’s Day 2022 the Rylands reflects on what Special Collections can tell us (and what is left to discover) about the women who changed Manchester forever
Images of Martyrdom in an Early Modern Pilgrim’s Narrative
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
Chinese Bible Translation and Printing: Qing to Republic
Anastasiia Akulich explores the history of Bible translation and printing in China from the Qing Empire to the People’s Republic.
Digital Collections Internship – part 3 -SPOTLIGHT on Ishmael Armstrong
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
Speaking to angels: Charaktêres in Jewish magical manuscripts – Part II
In the first part of this blog, I introduced the magical signs called charaktêres that you can encounter in Jewish magical manuscripts. OriginallyContinue Reading