From Evil Eyes to Lost Friendships: Tales from the Gaster Amulet Collection
Amulet cataloguer Dr Gal Sofer gives you an expert’s insight into our fascinating amulet collection.
Tag: Research
X-Ray Tomography of Gaster Amulet 34
Recently, the Collection Care and Imaging teams from the University of Manchester Special Collections collaborated with NXCT, The National X-ray Computed Tomography centre based at The University of Manchester. For the first time, objects from the John Rylands collections were imaged using state of the art X-ray scanning facilities, in an attempt to reveal what’s hidden inside.
Unlocking the secrets of English MS 24
The mysterious History of the Phoolkian family
Elephants and Mahouts in Persianate South Asia
We celebrate World Elephant Day (12 August) with a guest blog post by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris-Marseille), on a Persian text about the origin of the mahout, or elephant keeper.
Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day – 3 November 2022
A blog by Jan Whalen, Digital Preservation and Systems Manager, The University of Manchester Library. Organized by the Digital PreservationContinue Reading
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.
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.