The National Book League and the house that became “the centre of the world of books”.
A short story about a house, a series of books, a fabulously named organization and a serendipitous find in the stacks.
Tag: Printed books
Hidden Stories: Behind The Night Brother for Museums at Night 2019
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
The Writings of Vavasor Powell in the John Rylands Collection: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John RylandsContinue Reading
Undiscovered collections: Guardian Archive Printed Collection
A team from Collection Management has recently completed restoring and cataloguing The Guardian Archive Printed Collection. The majority of the collection, whichContinue Reading
The Race for Westminster
Political cartoons are a regular feature in modern-day newspapers and periodicals. Cartoons have long been used to capture, and provideContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – March 2015
The next seminar session is on Thursday 12th March, 5.00-7.00 pm. Our speakers are: Dr Georg Christ, Manchester, Marino Sanuto’sContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – February 2015
The next seminar session is on Thursday 12th February, 5.00–7.00 pm. Our speakers are: Dr Sara Barker, Leeds, ‘Translation andContinue Reading
Fairy Tales for Christmas!
This volume by Arthur Rackham was recently retrieved for an archaeology seminar, but the images were just too seasonal to by-passContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – November 2014
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World will continue this week with a seminarContinue Reading