Digital Collections Internship – part 2 – SPOTLIGHT on Hana Sharkey
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021,Continue Reading
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Digital Collections Internship – Part 1
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was aContinue Reading
Artist Residency reflections – music inspired by the Alan Turing Archive.
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 world has a right to know what we are doing and how we are doing it.” -Manchester Civic Week
The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answerContinue Reading
Finding faith in the urban archive
Did urbanisation and industrialisation cause religious faith to decline in eighteenth-century England? Correspondence from the Nicholson family of Manchester merchants suggests otherwise.
Adapting Tradition: Christmas at the Wood Street Mission
Christmas is always a special time of the year for the Wood Street Mission
A Tale of Two Cities
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 3)
This is third and final post by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations by a ManchesterContinue Reading
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 2)
This is the second of three blog posts by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations byContinue Reading
Robert Wagstaffe Killer (Part 1)
‘As like a gentleman as is a Mouse to an Elephant’: The annotated 1794 Manchester trade directory of Robert WagstaffeContinue Reading