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Manchester Geographical Society Map Project: Maps of Europe (#2) – Collection...
This blog post is the second in a series focusing on maps of Europe from the #ManGeogSoc Map Cataloguing project. The first blog post featuring antiquarian maps of Europe can be read here. This post...
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Rylands Goes Robotic during Covid-19 Crisis
As we all know, The John Rylands Library is currently closed during the corona virus emergency, in common with all other libraries, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions throughout the UK....
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Manchester Geographical Society Map Project: Maps of Europe (#3) – An...
This blog post is the third in a series focusing on maps of Europe from the #ManGeogSoc Map Cataloguing project. The first blog post featuring antiquarian maps of Europe can be read here. The second...
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Exploring the Wood Street Mission
Max Maxfield and Cliodhna Flaherty at The John Rylands Library Hello, Clío and Max here! We are postgraduate students at the University of Manchester (studying MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies and...
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Cum on Feel the Noize: The Student Ephemera Collection as Musical Time Capsule
From 1969 to 1976 a University of Manchester Library initiative collected flyers, posters, letters and handbills distributed around the campus forming a substantial archive within Special Collections....
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Florence Nightingale, Thomas Worthington, and the Chorlton Union Hospital
In the architect Thomas Worthington’s Chorlton Union Hospital (1864-6), we saw in this city the first application of the ‘pavilion’ system to a workhouse hospital. Sent to each board of guardians in...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Intro)
In March 2020 like many others across the world, the Imaging team found ourselves working from home, in new and very strange circumstances. But if you know us, we like to turn anything we can into an...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 1): Hidden Treasures or Unknown Pleasures?
Working from home has given us the opportunity to delve deeper into our image processing software. What has become clear is that we only use 20% of a software’s true capabilities. The number of menus,...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 2): ‘Seeing the aesthetics in damage’
Since January I have been working as a photographer on the Imaging team working to digitise the Mary Hamilton Archive for the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers project, which has been amazing to work...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 3): dsh in focus
by Angie McCarthy I have been working at the John Rylands Library for two years becoming an Imaging Assistant in November 2019. This role allows me to get up close and personal to the collections and...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 4): ‘Visually Manipulating Rylands...
As well as being a photographer at the Rylands, I have been creating visual art for a number of years. I started IMPATV with my partner and we’ve been making videos, streaming events and creating...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 5): Sigillography, a study of wax seals
I was interested in the seals of the Simon Papers letters from both a typological perspective and an informational one. Wax seals are about identity and integrity of information; unique identifiers...
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Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 6): Taking a walk all round the landscape
This is the final post in our series of Imaging taking an ‘Isolated View’. I hope that you have enjoyed all of the different responses to the collections from the team. I have certainly enjoyed seeing...
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Sharper than a two-edged sword: The agony and the joy of interpreting the...
This blog is the third in a series showcasing a collection of religious testimonies written from the heart of the 18th century Evangelical Revival. Created by converts from every social class, the...
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From 2D to 3D – Photogrammetry
The Imaging team first looked at Photogrammetry back in 2016, at that time we decided to concentrate our efforts on establishing our Multispectral Imaging workflows and delivery. Just before Covid19...
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A curator’s pick: My favourite Rylands collection
In 30 years as an archivist at the John Rylands Library, I have curated many important collections and manuscripts. Many, like the letters of John Wesley, enjoy international research significance,...
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Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
New research has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments housed at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library, which were previously thought to be blank, do in fact contain...
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Travels through Tokugawa Japan
Dr Sonia Favi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow who is carrying out postdoctoral research at the John Rylands Library on the Japanese Collection. In this blog post she introduces some of the...
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Living and dying: An 18th century perspective
During the lock down, I have been working from home on digital and published collections of 18th century Methodist and Anglican correspondence as part of the effort to make them more widely available....
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Recipes, Cakes and Puddings: Box listing the Work of Alison Brackenbury
Leah Watson writes: Hello! I’m Leah Watson, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester studying MA History. I have recently completed a placement at the John Rylands Library, where I was...
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