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Guardian Exhibition: Anniversaries: The Guardian newspaper through time and...
This anniversary blog, written by the Guardian Exhibition Curator Janette Martin, highlights objects from our bicentenary exhibition and from the wider Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive...
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Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research...
Hannah Banks writes: Over the course of February through to April, I have been working with Lianne Smith, the Curator responsible for the Christian Brethren archives, and my fellow MA colleague...
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Diversifying special collections: reflecting on our decolonisation research...
Matthew Bridson writes: Working alongside my classmate, Hannah Banks, I have spent the last eleven weeks researching glass magic lantern slides from the Echoes of Service special collection, as part...
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Speak PROPER Renaissance Italian!
A guest post from Dr Stefan Hanß uncovers the interactions between author, text and reader in sixteenth-century Italy In the early 20th century, a sixteenth-century Italian volume entered the...
View ArticlePalladium: appraisal and sensitivity review of the Carcanet email archive
Carcanet Project Archivist Paul Carlyle writes: In March I wrote about Palladium (Providing Access to Large Literary Archives in a Digital Medium), a project currently underway at the John Rylands...
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What’s in a name? A birthday blog for Enriqueta Rylands
Today marks the birthday of the founder of the John Rylands Library, Enriqueta Augustina Rylands née Tennant. Enriqueta and her twin brother were born on 31 May 1843 in Matanzas, Cuba. They both ended...
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Welcome to the Family: getting to know the staff of the Manchester Guardian
Blog post by Karen Jacques – co curator of ‘Manchester’s Guardian: 200 years of the Guardian Newspaper’ I have the privilege to work as a Collections Assistant in the John Rylands Research Institute...
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Finding faith in the urban archive
The 1794 poem The Task by William Cowper begins one verse with the statement ‘God made the country, and man made the town’. Cowper’s England of the late eighteenth century was one in which towns grew...
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“The world has a right to know what we are doing and how we are doing it.”...
The Manchester Guardian’s Civic Week Number, 1926 “If it be asked why Manchester is holding a Civic Week, the answer simply is: She is holding it because she has something to show and something to...
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International Kelmscott Press Day: 26 June 2021
Overview Today is International Kelmscott Press Day. Organised by the William Morris Society in the United States, the day marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of the Kelmscott edition of...
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Magic lanterns and ‘magic’ imperialism
Nineteenth-century imperial societies enjoyed self-aggrandising stories of their technology being mistaken for magic by African peoples. The library’s lantern slides of the Victorian missionary David...
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The Manchester Guardian and the Irish Question: Evolution of Newspaper and...
A guest post from Kathy Davies, an historian of modern Britain and empire, interested in national and imperial politics and the role of the British newspaper press. Kathy is currently completing her...
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The Story behind an Arabic Inscription in a Renaissance German Manuscript
Research Fellows Ben Pope and Jake Benson follow the trail of nineteenth-century antiquarian Robert Goff, who left an enigmatic trace of his collecting activity in a manuscript from the workshop of...
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Autographs and Amanuenses in the Mary Hamilton Papers
‘The two ladies were delighted to see their dear friend again, called it an age since they had met’(Austen, Pride and Prejudice) One of the joys (and challenges) of working on the Unlocking the Mary...
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The John Ruskin letters launch on MDC
In the first months of lockdown in 2020, a call went out in Curatorial Practices for suggestions of digitised material which could be transferred to our new image viewer, Manchester Digital...
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Nancy Cunard, the Manchester Guardian and the Spanish Civil War
Guest Blog by Dr. Sam Hyde (@drshyde) On 27th October 1938, Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) the writer and civil rights activist, wrote to William Crozier (1879-1944), editor of the Manchester Guardian,...
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Tipped-in Frontispiece Portraits in the Early Modern Sermon
Dr Hannah Yip is a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow for 2020/21. Her project, ‘The Clergy and Artistic Recreation in Early Modern Britain’, investigates, for the first time, the diverse artistic...
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Palladium: Research Potential of the Carcanet Email Archive
Paul Carlyle writes: Regular readers of this blog will know that since the beginning of the year we have been working hard on a project called Palladium (Providing Access to Large Literary Archives in...
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The Manchester Guardian and the Manchester Observer
Guest Article by Robert Poole, Professor of History, University of Central Lancashire and Author of Peterloo: the English Uprising (2019) The founding of the Manchester Guardian is closely bound up...
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Four Maps of New Zealand: The General Survey Office and imperial tourism
Dr James Watts is a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow in 2020/21. His project, ‘Landscape, Environment, and British Imperial Identity, 1860-1914’, explores the multiple ways British people...
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