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Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts at the John Rylands...
Dr Jo Edge writes: I’ve been employed at the John Rylands Library since August 2018, tasked with creating digital catalogue entries for the collection of 500+ Latin manuscripts by the end of 2019....
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Can You Name 5 Women Artists?
Margaret and Adeline Norman by Julia Margaret Cameron, Ref: VPH.43 In this, Women’s History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts is challenging people to name 5 women artists in an attempt...
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Arthur Moyse: artist, critic and bus conductor
Bruce Wilkinson writes: When Dave Cunliffe moved to London in the late-1950s he befriended ‘artist, critic and bus conductor’ Arthur Moyse who introduced him to anarchist ideology through political...
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A Book of Ours: Manchester’s “Homeless” Engage with our Manuscripts
The Library is working with the arts organisation arthur+martha to facilitate the making of an illuminated manuscript at the Booth Centre and other support centres for people with experience of...
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Jeff Nuttall and the William S Burroughs Connection
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Described in his Mike Horovitz penned Guardian obituary as a “catalyst, perpetrator and champion of rebellion and experiment in the arts and society.”, Jeff Nuttall was an...
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A closer look at the Manchester Observer (1819–1822)
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our current exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, writes: The Manchester Observer, 27 November 1819, ref. R229748. Copyright the University of Manchester...
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Cataloguing the First World War correspondence of the Manchester Guardian
Lucy-Kay Brownson, a student on Liverpool University’s Master of Archives and Records Management course, writes: In January 2019, as part of my MA programme at Liverpool University, I catalogued a...
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Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
In this post on the John Rylands Research Institute blog, Dr Alice Marples writes: © Estate of Mark Warner. The University of Manchester Library has recently acquired a body of work by the Manchester...
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Acquisition of The Papers of Alison Brackenbury
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the papers of poet and broadcaster Alison Brackenbury. Courtesy of Alison Brackenbury Alison has thus far published 9 collections of poetry with Carcanet...
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Cataloguing the Papers of Elfrida Vipont
Nicole McNeill writes: Over the last few months I have been cataloguing the Elfrida Vipont collection to make its contents available for staff and students at the University of Manchester. I have had...
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Advanced Imaging techniques, supporting research with Special Collections
The Imaging team offer a suite of Advanced Imaging techniques to support innovative and multidisciplinary research with our Special Collections. Advanced Imaging supports researchers to interrogate the...
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Stories in a Box, Part 1: Dostoevsky
Turning to leave one of our manuscript storage areas I saw a box labelled Small Russian Manuscripts. Curious – I hadn’t realised we had any Russian manuscript material – I took a look inside. The box...
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The Papers of Peter Good: An Accrual to the Dave Cunliffe Archive
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Good and Cunliffe also used their printing technology to assist other radical groups produce their own newspapers, magazines, flyers and posters and connected with other...
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The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) Map Cataloguing Project
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, at which the famous explorer H. M. Stanley gave a lecture. The...
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The Writings of Vavasor Powell in the John Rylands Collection: A...
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate. Four rare works by...
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16th-century Italian books: a new partnership
Petrarca, Le cose volgari (Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501). Aldine Collection 15442 The Census of Italian 16th-Century Editions (EDIT 16) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century...
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Pietro Antonio Ferro: an Italian painter and his book
Sara D’Amico spent three months working with us as part of the EU Erasmus+ training scheme. Her project focused on 16th century Italian books in the Walter L. Bullock collection. This work is part of a...
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Drawing Dissection: Medical Illustrations by Joseph Jordan’s Apprentice...
Illustration of blood vessels by John Hatton in his ‘Surgical lectures of Joseph Jordan’ (1838) I’m delighted to announce the recent digitisation of two unique books from our 19th-century medical...
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Book for a Cardinal
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostly devoted to first editions of English authors, but a significant part...
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Digitisation of Letters by Charles Dickens in the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for access online via Manchester Digital Collections. Engraving of Charles Dickens 1872. Creators...
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