A Beautiful Happening: The Dave Cunliffe Archive
The Dave Cunliffe archive contains material from his BB Books small press and it’s important to note that from 1963Continue Reading
Tag: Poetry
Introducing the Dave Cunliffe Collection
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute Fellow, writes about exploring the recently acquired literary archive of the poet, publisher and activist Dave Cunliffe
The Life of ‘Little Magazines’
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her fourth blog post, tellsContinue Reading
Norman Nicholson’s ‘Topographical Notes’ in the John Rylands Library
Max Long, an English MPhil student at Cambridge University, visited the Library recently and has written a guest blog postContinue Reading
What will we be reading in the year 2367?
Naomi Billingsley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute, writes: On 9 December 2017, the Library celebratedContinue Reading
‘A Ghost in the Rylands Library’: The Papers of Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein’s archive is one of our most important modern literary collections, and we are delighted to announce that aContinue Reading
‘Power – For my angel poet-friend’: The Papers of Elaine Feinstein
Project Archivist Jane Speller writes: Work has started on the papers of English writer, poet and translator, Elaine Feinstein. FundedContinue Reading
Rediscovered: Persian poets and poetry
James White writes Over the past weeks, I have been cataloguing some of the Persian literary manuscripts in the UniversityContinue Reading
This is (not) a love poem #jrlpoem15
Banish the January blues and look towards Valentine’s Day by helping The John Rylands Library create a new poem usingContinue Reading
Curious Find – Temperance Movement Cuttings Book
“Some drink when friends step in, And some when they step out; Some drink because they’re thin, And some drinkContinue Reading