Frankland Family Archive catalogued
Archivist James Peters introduces the newly catalogued Frankland family archive and introduces its fascinating main cast of characters
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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.
Reader Services Curious Find – The Path of the Comet
Today’s Curious Find once again comes from our regular reader Michael Gilligan. Mr Gilligan is studying the history of science,Continue Reading
Reader Services Curious Finds – Parabola
This Curious Find comes to us from one of our regular readers Michael Gilligan. The item is Underweysung Der Messung,Continue Reading
The Advent of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon who practised and lectured for many years in both Edinburgh and Glasgow but heContinue Reading