This year marks 10 years of placements at the University of Manchester Special Collections. Over the past decade we have welcomed a variety of brilliant students who have helped us with projects ranging from cataloguing hundreds of newspaper clippings to setting up exhibition cases and repairing book bindings. We celebrated this milestone by engaging a record number of placements this year. It would be impossible to relate all the wonderful things our placements have achieved, but luckily, a number of our students wrote blogs about their experience. You can find this year’s blogs below:
Ron Ockwell: A guiding hand for humanitarian aid
Your Manchester: Student Activism in the 1970s
Your Manchester: An Exploration of Manchester’s Legacy of Student Activism
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 1)
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 2)
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 3)
Doppelgängers and Spectres: Hauntings in Early Photography
Remembering China’s Western Palaces
Pictures for the Christian Mass in an Old Prayer Book
Digitising the Seven Volumes of a Magnificent Missal
Mapping the Change: Cataloguing Educational Wall Maps
Documenting the Birth of Rail Travel
All placements at the University of Manchester Special Collections are part of a programme of study. Please email sc.teaching-learning@manchester.ac.uk with any enquiries.
Aya Van Renterghem
Special Collections Teaching and Learning Coordinator