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.
Dr Hannah Yip is a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow for 2020/21. Her project, ‘The Clergy and Artistic Recreation inContinue Reading
A varied collection of Japanese maps, including maps of Japan, world maps, road maps, and different types of local maps, is now available on Manchester Digital Collection.
Dr Sonia Favi explores the travel literature of early modern Japan.
Reader Services Assistant, Angela Petyt-Whittaker, reveals a most surprising find… Whilst working in The John Rylands Library for the pastContinue Reading
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate.Continue Reading
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John RylandsContinue Reading
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester,Continue Reading