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John Rylands Research Institute: forthcoming events
The John Rylands Research Institute supports a full programme of talks, seminars and other events, aimed at both academic and wider public audiences. Here are a few dates for your diary. Research...
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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 3rd March, from 5-7pm in the Christie Room, John Rylands Library. The theme of...
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John Rylands Research Institute – Research Associate vacancy
The John Rylands Research Institute is seeking to appoint a Research Associate as part of its team working on the Library’s Special Collections. You will carry out original high quality research on...
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Catching Archive Fever
Stella Halkyard, Visual Collections and Academic Engagement Manager, writes: Fran Baker and Stella Halkyard, Working With Archives Day, 4th. March 2016 Despite the cold a full complement of post...
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The Cat’s Post Mortem
Alongside the work to catalogue the Medical Manuscripts Collection the papers of renowned 20th century haematologist John Frederick Wilkinson (1897-1998) are also being catalogued. Wilkinson worked in...
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The Diary and Notebook of Dan Crawford, Brethren Missionary in Africa
Dr Graham Johnson, Christian Brethren Archivist, writes: The Library has recently acquired a handwritten notebook of Dan Crawford, the Brethren missionary pioneer to Africa, as a part of the expanding...
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Craft: a one-day conference at the John Rylands Library
On Thursday 2 June, the Library will be providing the venue for a conference organised by Dr Anke Bernau and Dr James Paz. This one-day conference will consider different ways in which the term ‘craft’...
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Happy Birthday William Morris
CHICC Manchester opening of Latin MS 53 ‘Proliani Astronomia’ Today marks the 182nd year since the birth of William Morris, English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist...
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Rylands Aldines return to Venice for exhibition
Manutius in Manchester We were delighted to be able to contribute a number of Aldines from the Rylands collection to the recently opened exhibition ‘Aldo Manuzio: il rinascimento di Venezia’ hosted...
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Lecture: Japanese Maps and European Collectors
Japanese Maps and European collectors Why they were made and why they were collected? Thursday 14 April, 5-7pm The John Rylands Library All welcome – no booking required We are excited to welcome...
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Li Yuan-chia in Translation.
Shengyan working on the LYC Collection, March 2016. In December of last year a project started on the Li Yuan-chia Collection by our new intern, Shengyan Wang. He is completing his MA in Museology and...
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Manchester’s treasure trove: Dr Laure Humbert reflects on tips and treasures...
With permission, we reproduce a recent post by Dr Laure Humbert, Lecturer in Modern History, on the History@Manchester blog: Interior of the John Rylands Library. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons....
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New Digital Resource on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
Former John Rylands Research Institute Fellow, Dr Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley, reports on the recent digitisation of over 200 proclamations and broadsides from our of our French Revolution Collection....
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Shakespeare on show: editors in the spotlight and a mysterious inscription
The Rylands copies of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (1623) and the first edition of his sonnets (1609) are currently on display in the Rylands Gallery as part of events commemorating the 400th...
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Charlotte Brontë letter filmed for BBC iWonder
In a week of major literary anniversaries, The John Rylands Library features in a short BBC iWonder video, released to celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Charlotte Brontë today, 21 April. In ‘What...
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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 28 April 2016, 5.00-7.00pm, in the Christie Room, John Rylands Library. The...
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New Japanese Maps Added to Our Digital Collections
CHICC Manchester Following our blog entry in October 2015, Digitisation of Japanese Maps at the John Rylands Library, we are pleased to announce the completion of phase three of the Japanese Maps...
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New inventory of our European Proclamations and Broadsides now available
Printed Revolutions I have now completed the inventory of the John Rylands Library European Proclamations and Broadsides (EPAB), a unique resource containing well over 10,000 items printed all over...
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Cholera Comes to Manchester
“The characteristic symptoms that define this disease are a constant vomiting and purging, the matter thrown up bilious attended with constant nausea and gripes and sometimes spasms of the legs. … most...
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The Laur-Chand: an Indian Sufi romance
Hindustani MS 1 has been digitised and is now available to view online in the Rylands Collection. This sixteenth-century copy of the Laur-Chand by Maulana Daud is one of the Library’s most beautiful...
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