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Researching the Macklin Bible (1800), by Dr Naomi Billingsley
Art History UoM Index The John Rylands Research Institute is a diverse community of researchers, working in partnership with the John Rylands Library. I joined the Institute last month as a Leverhulme...
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The Sons of C.P. Scott, and The Scott Trust
This month’s blog post focuses upon Edward Taylor Scott, and John Russell Scott, sons of C.P. Scott, both of whom worked at the Manchester Guardian, E.T. Scott as a journalist, and J.R. Scott as...
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Incidences of Syphilis Amongst Jefferson’s Neurosurgery Patients
There are a handful of incidents of syphilis, more specifically neurosyphilis, amongst Geoffrey Jefferson’s neurosurgery patient files. Given the prevalence of syphilis during the first half of the...
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Samuel Hird and Lancashire mill life
Dr James Peters writes: Samuel Hird (1878-1956), factory inspector The Library has recently acquired the papers of Samuel Hird (1878-1956), a factory inspector in Manchester during the first half of...
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The Suffragettes Incarcerated
Jane Donaldson writes: Working through the letters from the Pankhurst family to C.P. Scott in the Guardian archives, I have come across a number of letters concerned with Suffragettes in prison. They...
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Edward Schunck and the history of dyeing
Dr James Peters writes: As reported in a recent blog post, the Library has acquired the archives of the ICI dyestuffs division. This provides a vital record of the synthetic dyestuffs industry in...
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JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar
‘Logic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic’ in Myrrour of the Worlde (Westminster: William Caxton, 1480) Rylands 3469, c4v-c5r JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Thursday 9 March, 5.30pm Rosie...
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Behind the scenes of an Exhibition: Come and Join Us!
Gemma Henderson, Visitor Engagement Co-ordinator for Public Programmes, writes: Clare and Karen asked me to write about my involvement in The Life of Objects Exhibition. Where to start? Devising and...
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Illustrated scrapbook of Leonard Sheldrake in the Christian Brethren Archive...
Click to view slideshow. Dr Graham Johnson writes: This extensive annotated scrapbook was produced by Leonard Sheldrake (1885-1952) during his travels around the United States as an itinerant preacher...
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JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series
Rylands Latin MS 182, fo. 4r JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series (Re-)Framing Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica in Twelfth-century Germany: Rylands Latin MS 182 Dr Benjamin Pohl Lecturer...
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Finding Delian Inspiration at the John Rylands Library
Below you can read a guest blog by two artists, Manuella Blackburn (composer) and Tracey Zengeni (visual artist), who are using the Delia Derbyshire Archive as a source of inspiration for their own...
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Neurosurgery & Long-term Medical Effects of WWI
The case files of neurosurgeon Geoffrey Jefferson survive for patients admitted between 1927 and 1940 and inevitably a number of his patients were soldiers during World War One, and in one case the...
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Christian Brethren Magic Lantern Slides now online
Dr Graham Johnson, Christian Brethren Archivist, writes: Click to view slideshow. Magic lantern slide shows (known as phantasmagoria) were produced from at least the seventeenth century and became...
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Working with Wikipedia to make collections more discoverable
Dr James Peters writes: A small project has recently been undertaken to improve links between Special Collections catalogues and Wikipedia articles. This will enhance the discoverability of our...
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Volunteer Projects on the Guardian Archive
As the most recent cataloguing project on the Guardian archive draws to a close, our project volunteers, Jane Donaldson and John McCrory reflect on their experience at the John Rylands Library. Jane...
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Creating the future: thoughts from Digifest 2017
Technology and learning have always gone hand in hand, as the Rylands Collections demonstrate, ranging from clay tablets to papyri, manuscripts and the formation of the codex to printed books,...
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Inter-Library Drone Service
Readers sometimes wonder why Special Collections materials can’t be transferred between library sites. In the twenty-first century, we still expect readers to travel between sites, and anyone who has...
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What The Papers Said – the Editorial Correspondence of C.P. Scott in the...
I have now come to the final week of work on the Guardian Archive. C.P. Scott’s editorial correspondence series has been catalogued, all 12,933 letters of it, dating between 1879 and 1969, and the...
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Henry Ling Roth and The Aborigines of Tasmania
Henry Ling Roth (courtesy of Calderdale Museums Service). Dr James Peters writes: Henry Ling Roth (1855-1925) was a remarkable example of an “armchair” ethnologist. He wrote studies of indigenous...
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Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition: The Life of Objects Shop Range
Liza Leonard, Visitor Engagement Co-ordinator: Reception and Retail writes: The shop is a key part of the Library’s offer for audiences. We know that visitors expect to take a bit of the Library’s...
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