Queering the Collections
Our LGBTQ+ Special Collections Guide acts as a new route into our collections – opening up fresh avenues of research and enriching our knowledge of the past and present world.
Tag: Research
Periodicals of the Christian Brethren Archive
Dr Sam Hyde describes the incredible wealth of periodicals in the Christian Brethren Archive
“I was so ill, and so low…” Women, Mental Health and Strategies of Care in England, 1750-1850
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Anna Jamieson, explores the mental health of women in 18th- and 19th-century England by examining the Rylands’ Mary Hamilton papers.
International Women’s Day: Breaking the Bias with Our Special Collections
On International Women’s Day 2022 the Rylands reflects on what Special Collections can tell us (and what is left to discover) about the women who changed Manchester forever
Images of Martyrdom in an Early Modern Pilgrim’s Narrative
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
Chinese Bible Translation and Printing: Qing to Republic
Anastasiia Akulich explores the history of Bible translation and printing in China from the Qing Empire to the People’s Republic.
Palladium project guides for email archives
Guides for users and donors of email archives developed by the Palladium project.
Digital Collections Internship – part 3 -SPOTLIGHT on Ishmael Armstrong
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
Artist Residency reflections – music inspired by the Alan Turing Archive.
Dr Joshua Brown is a composer, of instrumental and vocal music, from Rossendale in East Lancashire (www.joshuabrowncomposer.com). He was Artist in Residence at the John Rylands Research Institute from 2019/20. He completed his PhD in Composition at the University of Manchester with Professor Philip Grange in 2018, and he is currently Lecturer in Composition at the University of Manchester, and composition tutor at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music.
Exploring the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at The University of Manchester
Dr Kerry Pimblott and Mary Booth discuss the recently developed module ‘Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the Modern World’ for MA History students at The University of Manchester.