Adapting Tradition: Christmas at the Wood Street Mission
Christmas is always a special time of the year for the Wood Street Mission
Christmas is always a special time of the year for the Wood Street Mission
On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Special Collections Librarian, Julie Ramwell, looks at his relationship with Manchester.
This is third and final post by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations by a ManchesterContinue Reading
This is the second of three blog posts by Julie Ramwell introducing a unique 18th-century trade directory with annotations byContinue Reading
‘As like a gentleman as is a Mouse to an Elephant’: The annotated 1794 Manchester trade directory of Robert WagstaffeContinue Reading
The Library has looked after the archives of Manchester Settlement (formerly Manchester University Settlement) for many years. The Settlement hasContinue Reading
Fifty years ago today NASA astronauts Commander Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the Moon, takingContinue Reading
I’m delighted to announce the recent digitisation of two unique books from our 19th-century medical collections. Available online in fullContinue Reading
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester,Continue Reading
The greatest impulse of the suffragettes was to create a disturbance. To make themselves seen and heard so that theContinue Reading