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Cleansing the Home of Evil Spirits: Sweeping Magic in the Concordantiae...
Stephen Gordon writes: ‘The style of these drawings is beneath contempt’: these are the words of the famed medievalist and cataloguer M. R. James, whose strong opinions of the images found in Latin MS...
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John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016: ‘The Other Within’ – The...
Call for Papers: ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library Monday 27-Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH. The...
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Digitisation of Japanese Maps at the John Rylands Library
Originally posted on CHICC Manchester: Digitised material is progressively being added to the Library’s imaging online collection – LUNA – It has grown to include another small but very important part...
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Behind the Headlines: Documenting the People in the Guardian Newspaper Archive
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian business records cataloguing project, writes: We were delighted to win the 2015 Business Archives Council (BAC) Cataloguing Grant for Business Archives,...
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John Rylands Research Institute / Manchester Wesley Research Centre Joint...
Applications are invited for the John Rylands Research Institute / Manchester Wesley Research Centre Joint Visiting Research Fellowship. This exciting fellowship aims to promote research in the...
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Where First I Heard of Peterloo
I first heard of Peterloo when I had been working at the Library for a few years and I was shown a little book, filled with names. It was the Peterloo Relief Fund Account Book (or English MS 172) a...
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Mary Hamilton Papers – New Collection!
Originally posted on CHICC Manchester: We are thrilled to be able to announce the creation of an entirely new collection in the University of Manchester Image Collections for digitised material from...
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Early Medical Printed Illustrations
Originally posted on CHICC Manchester: This month sees the commencement of the ninth annual Manchester Science festival and by happy coincidence we are unveiling in our digital collections images from...
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The Advent of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister – 1902 Joseph Lister was a British surgeon who practised and lectured for many years in both Edinburgh and Glasgow but he is remembered today as the pioneer of antiseptic surgery. He’d...
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Manchester Science Festival – Vote Now!
Harry Jelley in our Engagement Team writes: The John Rylands Library holds many treasures that map the development of science throughout the world: from 18th-century Japanese botanical albums, through...
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Cleansing the Home of Evil Spirits: Sweeping Magic in the Concordantiae...
Stephen Gordon writes: ‘The style of these drawings is beneath contempt’: these are the words of the famed medievalist and cataloguer M. R. James, whose strong opinions of the images found in Latin MS...
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John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016: ‘The Other Within’ – The...
Call for Papers: ‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library Monday 27-Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH. The...
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Undiscovered collections: Charles Brian Cox, educationist, scholar and poet...
Charles Brian Cox (1928-2008) was a gifted teacher, a superb editor, a skilled administrator and a considerable poet.[i] He co-founded and edited of the literary journal ‘Critical Quarterly’ whose...
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Mrs Gaskell Returns!
This month has seen the return of the portrait bust of Elizabeth Gaskell by the artist William Hamo Thornycroft (1850-1925) to the Rylands Library from her sojourn at the Gaskell House. She has been...
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Faith after the Pharaohs: Christianity and the Rylands Gospel of Mary
Source: Faith after the Pharaohs: Christianity and the Rylands Gospel of Mary
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Library wins grant to catalogue C.P. Scott’s Editorial Correspondence in the...
We are delighted to announce that the Library has been awarded £40,000 by the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives to undertake a major new project, ‘What the Papers Say: The Editorial...
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Facial recognition software solves Elizabeth Gaskell mystery
On the 150th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth Gaskell (on 12 November 1865), a mystery surrounding the true identity of a silhouette suspected to be of the Victorian novelist has finally been...
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
The John Rylands Research Institute is pleased to announce that it intends to sponsor Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships beginning in 2016. This will be a two-stage process. Potential applicants are...
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University Academics and the First World War
Dr James Peters writes: The First World War not only dislocated the everyday work of the University’s academics, but also undermined some of their cherished beliefs about transnational scholarship....
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Letters from the Front: A Soldier’s Experiences in the First World War
Penny Blackburn, an archive volunteer, writes: This collection of letters, acquired by the Library in 2014, chronicles a soldier’s life on the Western Front during the First World War. Arthur Powell...
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