Recently, the Collection Care and Imaging teams from the University of Manchester Special Collections collaborated with NXCT, The National X-ray Computed Tomography centre based at The University of Manchester. For the first time, objects from the John Rylands collections were imaged using state of the art X-ray scanning facilities, in an attempt to reveal what’s hidden inside.
Across the University, there are objects of historical and cultural significance collectively known as the University Collections. Within the UniversityContinue Reading
In Part 4 of our Digital Collections Internship series, the Imaging team reflect on the impact of the programme.
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
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021,Continue Reading
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was aContinue Reading
Dr Joshua Brown is a composer, of instrumental and vocal music, from Rossendale in East Lancashire (www.joshuabrowncomposer.com). He was Artist in Residence at the John Rylands Research Institute from 2019/20. He completed his PhD in Composition at the University of Manchester with Professor Philip Grange in 2018, and he is currently Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester, and composition tutor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.
The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answerContinue Reading
Did urbanisation and industrialisation cause religious faith to decline in eighteenth-century England? Correspondence from the Nicholson family of Manchester merchants suggests otherwise.