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New Catalogues Online!
With the culmination of a year-long cataloguing project to tackle some of the Library’s science and medical collections a number of new catalogues are now available online and the material itself...
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
The John Rylands Research Institute at The University of Manchester invites applications for this year’s round of British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships, for a fellowship beginning in September 2017....
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Mapping the friends and collaborators of Jeff Nuttall
Jeff Nuttall Veneta Haralampieva writes: Hello everyone, In case you haven’t read my previous blog post, my name is Veneta Haralampieva. I am a recent graduate from the Computer Science Department of...
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Job Opportunity: Special Collections Librarian
We are seeking to appoint a Special Collections Librarian (Rare Books and Digital Humanties). You will promote and support innovative Digital Humanities initiatives focussed upon the Special...
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Rapture and Reason: Accounts of Evangelical Conversion in Georgian Britain
‘Monster at Finsbury Fields’, Anti-Methodist satirical print, 18th century. Gareth Lloyd writes: “Western culture … had its foundation in the bible, the word of God, and in the revivals of the...
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Call for Papers –‘Comment is Free, but facts are sacred’: The Guardian in...
Thursday 6 April 2017, The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester Keynote speaker: Alan Rusbridger, Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian. The...
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Mary Jane Clarke, an Unsung Hero
Jane Donaldson writes: As one of 3 volunteers working on the Guardian Archive project ‘What the Papers Say’, I am assisting in cataloguing the correspondence collection and my focus is Women’s...
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Behind the scenes of an exhibition: or everything you wanted to know about...
Over the last twelve months we have been enhancing the boxlist for the Li Yuan-chia archive with the aim of opening up the collection to researchers and a wider audience. During the course of the...
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Paul & Florence
One of the great strengths of a correspondence collection is the insight it can provide into personal experiences of historic events. Formal or informal, letters give a sense of the character of the...
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Newberry Library/JRRI Joint Fellowship 2017/2018 – applications invited
Click to view slideshow. The Newberry Library-John Rylands Research Institute Joint Fellowship provides two months of support for a scholar to be in residence for one month at the Newberry Library in...
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The (Uncatalogued) Lives of Hester Thrale Piozzi
This blog post comes from Dr Sophie Coulombeau (Cardiff University) and Dr Elizabeth Edwards (University of Wales) who visited the Library as John Rylands Research Institute Fellows in August: In...
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More Medical Archives…
Efforts to catalogue the University’s many and varied medical archive collections are continuing in earnest. August saw the successful end of a project to catalogue the Manchester Medical Manuscripts...
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Using facial recognition techniques to compare portraits associated with...
Portrait of a Young Man, referred to as the Grafton portrait, held in the John Rylands Library, is by an unknown English artist and dates from 1588. In the past it has been accepted as a true likeness...
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John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Research Fellowships
The Institute has announced a call for Visiting Research Fellowships. The University of Manchester Library’s Special Collections count among the foremost repositories of primary sources in the UK,...
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Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: Hard Decisions!
This week we met with our colleague Elaine Sheldon from the Conservation Team to discuss display proposals and concerns about some of the objects we are hoping to show in our Life of Objects...
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John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Early Career Research Fellowships
The Institute has announced the call for this new Fellowship. Doctor of Law, from W. H. Pyne, Costume of Great Britain (1808). Visiting Early Career Research Fellowships are an opportunity for...
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C.P. Scott and the Boer War on the 170th Anniversary of his Birth
John McCrory writes: On the 170th anniversary of the birth of C.P. Scott, it is appropriate to focus on a period in which Scott’s tireless political advocacy, steadfastness in following his...
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Visitors from Taiwan honour Chinese artist Li Yuan-chia
Dr Janette Martin writes: On Monday 17 October 2016 staff at The John Rylands Library were delighted to welcome three researchers from Taipei, Taiwan, who are making a documentary film about the...
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Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: The Art of Visual Communication
Digitisation activity around our Special Collections exhibitions has become more and more critical over the past few years. Whether that is because we are increasingly an Information Society or because...
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Library acquires major ICI Dyestuffs Division archive
Dr James Peters writes: The Library has recently acquired the archive of the former ICI Dyestuffs Division, and its predecessor companies. ICI was one of the largest and most influential British firms...
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