The Photo Jewellery collection held at The John Rylands Library is an interesting, thought provoking insight into culture and identity. We are pleased to announce the collection can now be viewed on Manchester Digital Collections.
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Messages we can relate to today. Many women during WW1 were Key Workers, hard at work in urban and rural settings keeping the infrastructure going and enhancing societal living conditions.
Dr Janette Martin writes: As a result of the Library’s recent exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, two generous donationsContinue Reading
Fifty years ago today NASA astronauts Commander Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the Moon, takingContinue Reading
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer andContinue Reading
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
In this post on the John Rylands Research Institute blog, Anne Anderton writes: The University of Manchester Library has recentlyContinue Reading
In this, Women’s History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts is challenging people to name 5 womenContinue Reading
It’s with great excitement that we can announce that descriptions of The Portrait of a Living Archive photographs are nowContinue Reading
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). In my previous post: Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections IContinue Reading