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Voices from the Archives: Readers’ unpublished letters on The Traffic in...
A guest blog by Timothée Dereuder While researching how the slaughter of horses for human consumption became a major public issue in Great Britain between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s, I...
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“The Moriarty of the Book World”: Thomas J. Wise at The John Rylands Library
PhD student Ellesse Patterson reflects on the relationship between The John Rylands Library and one of Britain’s most notorious literary forgers, Thomas J. Wise, illuminating a forgotten corner of the...
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Faith in a warzone: Missionary correspondence in 1940s China
Emma Farnworth writes: EOS/4/5/25/1 Miss Barclay and Miss Le-Tourneau, missionaries, with Miss Pan, a Bible woman, preparing to set off by bicycle on a week-long mission journey in China. When I began...
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Manchester’s Global Connections Past and Present: Co-Creating Knowledge...
Dr Josephine Tierney reflects on how a conversation at one of the library’s Collection Encounters led to an exciting discovery, illuminating Manchester’s global connections past and present, and...
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A Peterloo Scrapbook
Blog post by Sergio Alonso Mislata, Rare Print Metadata Specialist at The University of Manchester Library Last year, I catalogued an item worth highlighting as we approach Peterloo Day. Peterloo Day...
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Snapshots from Sinai: James Rendel Harris and the Search for Manuscripts
By Molly Sutherland, University of Manchester MA Library and Archives student. This is the second blog in a series. My previous post discussed my placement digitising glass plate negatives with the...
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“Abundantly justified”: Glass plate photography at The John Rylands Library
By Molly Sutherland, University of Manchester MA Library and Archives student. In May I finished a 20-day placement with the Imaging Team at The John Rylands Library as part of my MA in Library and...
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‘We are just ordinary people who believe the Bible, and have found in the...
The Christian Brethren archive held in Special Collections at the University of Manchester’s Main Library, is the largest such collection in the world. Within it are the records of various chapels...
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Rylands Reminiscences: Insights into life at the John Rylands Library in the...
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Brenda Scragg née Knowles, who has the distinction of being the oldest living former member of staff of the John Rylands Library. Brenda started work...
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Introducing the Frank Tilsley Archive
Frank Tilsley by Howard Coster, 1938 Joanna Tilsley and Jessica Smith write: We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the archive of writer, journalist and broadcaster Frank Tilsley...
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Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part Four
This blog post quotes from historical sources that contain racist and dehumanising language. The University of Manchester does not condone this language, but is committed to providing access to this...
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Stories from Manchester’s General Strike: Silent printing presses and...
The Manchester Guardian News Bulletin 18 September 1920, GDN 256/1 May 2026 marks the centenary of the General Strike, one of the most turbulent periods in British industrial history. From 1 minute...
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Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part Three
This third blog in a series which looks at evidence of slavery in English Ms 1199 Messrs Cardwell, Birley And Hornby: Stock and Ledger Books – Wadsworth Manuscripts – Archives Hub focuses on the...
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There is a Light That Never Goes Out
The Visual Collections Department are pleased to announce that the exhibition photographs from ‘There is a Light That Never Goes Out’ have been catalogued and the details are now appearing in Library...
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Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part Two
This is the second blog in a series looking at slavery connections within English Ms 1199. This blog is focused on the triangular trade from the port of Lancaster, which in the eighteenth century, was...
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Slavery and Blackburn’s Cotton – Part One
This series of four blogs is based on research using the stock and ledger books of Blackburn cotton merchants Messrs Cardwell, Birley And Hornby. Held at The John Rylands Library, these form part of...
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Researching the Eyefull Tower
A blog by Anastasia Eremeeva, placement student, BA Art History. First experiences with the archive offer no immediate instruction on a research method, forcing the researcher to invent one in real...
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Designed to be Collected: The Leslie Clarence Cigarette and Trade Card...
The John Rylands Library holds a wide variety of ephemeral printing, from ballads and broadsides to playbills and advertisements. However, while items in our Street Literature Collection have survived...
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An experiment in higher education: Owens College opens, 12 March 1851
Today (12 March) is the 175th anniversary of the opening of Owens College, a predecessor institution of the University of Manchester, and a prototype of the civic or ‘Redbrick’ university. The civic...
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Rediscovering Frances Power Cobbe
What is remembered is determined by the dominant motivations, interests, prejudices and limitations of societies. As these shift with time, new pieces of human legacy can begin to float to the surface...
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