The Book Stops Here…or Tome Alone – Reading Room in Lockdown
The Reader Engagement Team feel immensely privileged to work in such a special environment, where we get to help readersContinue Reading
Tag: Special Collections
Recipes, Cakes and Puddings: Box listing the Work of Alison Brackenbury
Leah Watson writes: Hello! I’m Leah Watson, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester studying MA History. I haveContinue Reading
Travels through Tokugawa Japan
Dr Sonia Favi explores the travel literature of early modern Japan.
A turn-up for the book(s)
Reader Services Assistant, Angela Petyt-Whittaker, reveals a most surprising find… Whilst working in The John Rylands Library for the pastContinue Reading
An Evening with Rosie Garland, Inaugural Writer in Residence
Rosie Garland writes: October 17th 2019 marked the end of my yearlong Writer’s Residency at The John Rylands, funded byContinue Reading
d a levy and the Cleveland Underground
Bruce Wilkinson writes: In their search for innovative poetry, Tina Morris and Dave Cunliffe developed a network of small pressesContinue Reading
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) Map Cataloguing Project
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester,Continue Reading
The Papers of Peter Good: An Accrual to the Dave Cunliffe Archive
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Dave Cunliffe spent much of the early 1970s in Blackburn’s alternative bookshop Amamus. Increasingly a magnet forContinue Reading
Improvements to the Special Collections Reading Room
Over the summer we’ll be refurbishing the Special Collections Reading Room here at The John Rylands Library. The refurbishment willContinue Reading
How to Ask for a Residency
Rosie Garland writes: Since I wrote about the Power of Asking, I’ve been heartened by how many writers have toldContinue Reading