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Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her second blog post, tells us more about her internship at The John Rylands Library. dsh typestract ‘Linga...
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DAFFODILS Service Update
1 April marks the first anniversary of the launch of our Drone Airborne Fast, Frequent Order and Delivery Inter-Library Service (DAFFODILS). In these days of fake news and social media manipulation, it...
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Rediscovered: The Tobias Theodores Papers
Another in our occasional series describing work being undertaken on some of our less well-known collections. Miriam Wildermuth, an Erasmus student from the Humboldt University, Berlin, has recently...
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Curating Culture: A Student’s Perspective
‘Curating Culture’ is a module available to undergraduates at the University of Manchester via the University College of Interdisciplinary Learning (UCIL). It is taught by the University of...
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Ephemera in the dsh (dom sylvester houédard) archive
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying for an MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her third blog post, tells us more about her internship at The John Rylands Library. As I have been handling...
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Rediscovered: the Bible in Basic English Collection
James Peters has created another in our occasional series describing work being undertaken on some of our less well-known collections. Basic English is a simplified form of English, devised by the...
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The Great Depths of Space: Cataloguing the Papers of Zdeněk Kopal
Jane Speller writes: With generous support from the American Institute of Physics, work has started on cataloguing the papers of the Czech-born astronomer, Zdeněk Kopal (1914-1993). Zdeněk Kopal in...
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Digital Access to Mission Work material
I’m delighted to announce that a new selection of material from the collection of Echoes of Service has been digitised, and is now available for access online. This material includes early editions of...
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The Life of ‘Little Magazines’
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her fourth blog post, tells us more about her internship at The John Rylands Library working with the dom...
View ArticleSunday School Holiday Camp Collection in the Brethren Archive
Emma Dent writes: A small collection amidst the Christian Brethren archive is that of the Cardiff Assemblies’ Sunday School Holiday Camps. Although Cardiff Assemblies’ Sunday School holiday camps began...
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Unlocking Special Collections for Teaching and Learning
Dr Janette Martin writes: On Thursday 26 April 2018, curators and librarians from the University of Manchester Library hosted a special evening for teaching staff at the University of Manchester. It...
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Rediscovered: the Jan Łukasiewicz Papers
Dr James Peters writes another in our occasional series of posts on some of our lesser known collections. Jan Łukasiewicz (1878-1956), photographer unknown. Wikimedia Commons public domain image. Jan...
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Manchester Movement Histories
History@Manchester By Dr Kerry Pimblott The key to a more just future lies in a real reckoning with our collective pasts. At least that was the thinking of the eminent scholar-activist, W. E. B. Du...
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Speech Acts at Manchester Art Gallery: dom sylvester houédard on tour
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, tells us more about her internship at The John Rylands Library working with the dom sylvester houédard archive....
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Stateless in Manchester – the strange case of the “D.P. Student”
Alison Newby, Honorary Research Associate at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, recently contributed this fascinating post to their blog. Reading Race, Collecting Cultures The Roving...
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From Hair Restorer to Industrial Health: Cataloguing the Manchester Medical...
I joined the Special Collections team in March as part of an exciting new project to catalogue and promote engagement with the Library’s 1800-1949 printed medical collections. Generously funded by a...
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Manchester Hill Remembered
Jane Speller, Archivist, writes: On Sunday 10 June 2018 Manchester Central Library was buzzing with activity as over 60 groups and organisations came together to mark Greater Manchester’s diverse...
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The Journals of E.H. Broadbent
John McCrory writes: The papers of E.H. Broadbent document his travels as a Christian Brethren missionary through Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia, from the late nineteenth century...
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D. S. Who? Looking back at dom sylvester houédard
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her final blog post tells us more about her internship at The John Rylands Library working with the dom...
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The Children’s Book Collection in the Christian Brethren Archive
I am pleased to announce that a collection of children’s books in the Christian Brethren Archive has been catalogued. The collection contains wonderful examples of religious fiction and non-fiction,...
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