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Word from the ‘House’– final blog post from ‘Behind the Headlines’
We are delighted to announce the successful completion of our project ‘Behind the Headlines: Documenting the People in the Guardian Archive’, which was funded by the Business Archives Council’s...
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A Doctor’s View of Industrial Manchester
“The lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction of business; on the opposite, an immense many-windowed mill, whence proceeded the...
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Rylands represented at the world’s largest gathering of religious scholars
Dr Gareth Lloyd, the Library’s curator of Christian religious archives, represented the Library at the joint annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and the Society for Biblical...
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Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West on display for the first time
CHICC Manchester Imaging techniques developed by CHICC have underpinned research in to the earliest attempts at colour printing in the West. Selected prints are now on display at the British Museum as...
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A Christmas present worth waiting for: Edward Johnston, Gerard Meynell and an...
As has previously been reported by Julianne Simpson, in recent years we have undertaken a major recataloguing project on our renowned collection of books printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius and his...
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Special Collections Blog 2015 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 36,000...
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Hidden Gems from the Li Yuan-chia Collection
As work progresses on the LYC Archive, [See previous blog posts], we are continuing to uncover and rediscover some of the hidden gems that have been buried in cardboard boxes, holdalls and envelopes on...
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Medicines of the 18th Century
A range of different record types across the Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection used in conjunction with one another demonstrate the development of pharmaceutical preparations and how they were...
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Linking Letters Across Archives
M0003436 Use of the Lister carbolic spray, Antiseptic surgery, 1882. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images William Watson Cheyne,Published: 1882, Copyrighted work available under CC BY 4.0...
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John Rylands Research Institute Lecture: Dame Marina Warner
Professor Dame Marina Warner John Rylands Research Institute Lecture Thursday 11 February 2016 Historic Reading Room, The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH Drinks Reception: 5.30...
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The legacy of W.P. Crozier
We were recently joined for a fortnight by Stephanie Bredbenner, a student undertaking the Masters degree in Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool. As well as producing an...
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‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands...
Updated Call for Papers: ‘The Other Within’: The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library Conference, Monday 27-Wednesday 29 June 2016 at The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate,...
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New Year, New Web Pages
Try as we might, we don’t always get things right first time. It is fair to say that when the Library’s website was redesigned in 2015, the Special Collections pages didn’t meet with universal...
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The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World –...
The next session of the John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World takes place on Thursday 4th Feb, from 5-7pm in the Christie Room, John Rylands Library. The theme of...
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Undiscovered collections: Sedbergh School Library
A team from the Collection Management department has recently cleaned and catalogued the Sedburgh School Library Collection, which was deposited at the University of Manchester Library on permanent...
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Alberto Manguel at the John Rylands Library
We are delighted to be hosting a day-long event on Working With Archives on Friday 4 March. Organised by the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership, the daytime workshops and lectures are...
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Introduction of Anaesthesia
Today it is difficult to imagine undergoing surgery without anaesthetic, but up to the mid-19th century this was the only choice for people who required surgical treatment. It was not until 16th...
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Listening to the Delia Derbyshire Archive
Janette Martin writes: Even if you don’t immediately recognise her name you will most certainly have heard the work of Delia Derbyshire. Her most well-known achievement was the electronic realisation...
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Charles Clay –“Father of Ovariotomy”
The majority of the manuscripts that form the Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection are arranged around 20 individual Manchester medical men who were responsible for their creation and/or...
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On The Hedgehog
CHICC recently digitised a wonderful Bestiary up in Aberdeen, watch a wonderful animation inspired by the Rochester version held at the British Library! CHICC Manchester I had the pleasure of attending...
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