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.
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
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
Anastasiia Akulich explores the history of Bible translation and printing in China from the Qing Empire to the People’s Republic.
Guides for users and donors of email archives developed by the Palladium project.
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
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.
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.
Jake Benson, Research Associate discusses his work of cataloguing the roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts that are held in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s collections.
Visiting Early Career research Fellow, Dr Ana Dias, explores the Rylands Visigothic Manuscripts.