Inspiring Tomorrow’s History Teachers
A joint blog post by Dr Janette Martin (Special Collections Student Engagement Manager) and Thomas Donnai (Lecturer in Initial TeacherContinue Reading
Tag: Peterloo Massacre
Opening up the Peterloo Collections at the University of Manchester Library
Dr Janette Martin writes: The University of Manchester Library has digitised a second tranche of unique documents and rare printedContinue Reading
Isabella Banks, ‘Orator’ Hunt and the Peterloo Massacre
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our forthcoming Peterloo exhibition, tells us how the collections held at the University of ManchesterContinue Reading
Peterloo: The Forgotten Massacre?
Dr Janette Martin, curator of a forthcoming Peterloo exhibition at the John Rylands Library, writes: On 16 August 1819 aContinue Reading
Breaking News from the Guardian Archive
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian Archive foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: Following our visit earlier this year to theContinue Reading
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The Origins of the Guardian Newspaper
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: The Manchester Guardian was first published in ManchesterContinue Reading