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Introducing our community archive
Reading Race, Collecting Cultures What is an archive? How does community heritage material end up in our archive? What do we do with it? Who uses it? To encourage more BAME community groups to...
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Letterlocking workshop at the John Rylands Library
On the 14th of June, a practical workshop about letterlocking was organised at the John Rylands Library by the John Rylands Research Institute. Jana Dambrogio, conservator at MIT Libraries in the US...
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Thomas Radford Medical Illustration Collection
We have recently completed a cataloguing project on our medical archives, generously funded by the Wellcome Trust under its Research Resources in Medical History programme. In her final blog post,...
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Catalogue for the Echoes of Service Archive
Graham Johnson writes: In recent years major additions have been made to the important Echoes of Service Archive of missionary material held at the Christian Brethren Archive. The collection is now...
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John Rylands at Manchester Histories Festival 2018
The 2018 Manchester History Festival was themed around Protest, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech, and was held at Manchester Central Library from the 8th-11th of June. Jess, Dom and I managed a stall...
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CFP – (Dis)connections: Networks and Archival Absences
The deadline for abstracts for this workshop at the John Rylands Library has now been extended until August 19th, 2018. netmat_nw (Dis)connections: Networks and Archival Absences – Call for Papers 18th...
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Taking the pith
Thanks to the Western world’s love of taking souvenirs, albums of paintings on pith being a prime example, the John Rylands Library has been provided with one of its hidden treasures. They are...
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“All children should see themselves represented in the books they read”
Reading Race, Collecting Cultures And so the day finally arrived – on 3rd August our Director and long-standing Education Co-ordinator Jackie Ould logged off for the last time and headed into...
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Digitisation Projects in the Christian Brethren Archive
I’m delighted to announce the completion of several digitisation projects of material from the Christian Brethren Archive, with special thanks to the Photography and Imaging cataloguing teams. The...
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Respectful descriptions of marginalised groups in archives
Items within special collections can date back hundreds of years, so it’s no surprise that within these materials it is possible to find outdated or problematic attitudes and language. I am currently...
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The Private Press Collection at the John Rylands Library
My name is Steph Bushell and recently I was assigned a collections-based project as part of my MSc in the History of the Book with the University of Edinburgh. Students were asked to select a...
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The Private Press Collection: A Curator’s Perspective
In this second post Stephanie investigates some of the curatorial issues faced when attempting to manage and care for our large collection. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Kelmscott Press, 1896. Private...
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Isabella Banks – A Collection Full of Surprises!
Mrs George Linnaeus Banks by Elliott & Fry. Ref: R142286. I am pleased to announce that the cataloguing of the Isabella Banks Collection of Objects and Photographs has finally been completed and is...
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The Suffragettes Incarcerated
Today marks the opening of our new exhibition ‘Women Who Shaped Manchester’ which runs until the 10th of March 2019. The exhibition showcases just some of the Manchester women who contributed to...
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Newly Catalogued: Papers of John Stopford, Anatomist
James Peters writes: We have recently completed a project to catalogue our remaining unlisted medical archives; this was generously supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Resources in Medical History...
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Introducing the Dave Cunliffe Collection
Bruce Wilkinson, John Rylands Research Institute Fellow, writes: Dave Cunliffe as a young man, Dave Cunliffe Collection, The University of Manchester Library. Photographer unknown. My name is Bruce...
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Networks and Archival Absences Workshop #1 – Registration now open
Free afternoon workshop at the Rylands on Networks and Archival Absences with keynote from Anne Welsh. netmat_nw Free registration for the first half-day workshop – (Dis)connections: Networks and...
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The Papers of Interlink in the Christian Brethren Archive
Jane Donaldson writes: The papers of Interlink have recently been deposited with The Christian Brethren Archive. Interlink, formerly known as the Home and Foreign Mission Fund, was a service agency...
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In the last blog post I discussed the importance of creating racially sensitive archival descriptions. In this blog post I will discuss the importance of tactfully highlighting the histories of erased...
View ArticleCall for Papers – Carcanet at 50: Poetry Publishers, Archives and the Digital...
Posted on behalf of Dr Lise Jaillant: Call for Papers at the forthcoming workshop ‘Carcanet at 50: Poetry Publishers, Archives and the Digital Revolution’, Thursday 17 January 2019, John Rylands...
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