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Richard Goulden Collection: a new and exciting archive in Special Collections
Catherine Smith, Reader Services Assistant, writes: As well as looking after our readers in the Reading Rooms either in person or when we offer a visualiser appointment, one of the pleasures of our...
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The National Book League and the house that became “the centre of the world...
Let’s begin with a story. It is 1722, probably raining. Admiral Sir John Norris looks with concern at the image reflected in the large guilt-wood mirror of his new drawing room at no. 7 Albemarle...
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Unexpected treasures from early medieval Spain: the Visigothic manuscripts in...
Dr Ana Dias is Visiting Early Career Research Fellow in 2020-21. Her project, ‘Image in Iberia and the Medieval West ca. 700-1080: an Intellectual History’, investigates attitudes towards religious...
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Cataloguing Persian Manuscripts at the John Rylands Research Institute and...
Jake Benson, Research Associate The library holds over 1,000 Persian manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, including many of considerable significance. They encompass a wide range of...
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The Museum of Medicine and Health on Manchester Digital Collections
Written by Professor Carsten Timmerman, Professor of History of Science, Technology & Medicine at The University of Manchester The University of Manchester holds a fantastic range of medical books...
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Exploring the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at The University of...
Written by Dr Kerry Pimblott and Mary Booth, Edited by Mary Chioti Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the Modern World (HIST64101/65101) is a recently...
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Harry “Donny” Davies: An Old International
Ian Graham, Reader Services Assistant writes; Like everyone in Reader Services, I was obliged to work from home during the lockdown. Despite the dreariness and isolation of this necessary evil, there...
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Rylands Reflects: An anniversary post
By Elizabeth Gow, Special Collections Manuscript Curator and Archivist. The Rylands Reflects series explores the history of the John Rylands Library, our collections, and our current practice as...
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Qing China: new exhibition and digital collection go live
The Chinese Collection contains over 500 rare printed books, dating from the Ming dynasty to 19th-century Qing China, smaller quantities of manuscript material and approximately 1,000 watercolour...
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Get on Your Bike and Ride
Written by Jane Donaldson, Project Archivist currently working at the John Rylands. A life-long pootler on her bike, she was brought up with tales of Beryl Burton and liquorice allsorts. C. P. Scott...
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Global Tapestry and Vegan Action: Environmental activism in the 1960s
From the early 1960s Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris ran a small press which they used to produce poetry publications alongside political material which included environmental flyers, posters, stickers...
View ArticlePalladium Project – development work on ePADD
We are nearing the final portion of our Palladium email archive project, and with the assistance of Jochen Farwer, University of Manchester Library developer, we have begun to introduce some...
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The human body and how to use it: a Jewish copy of a Christian medical work
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website. Among these newly added items there is a...
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Recently catalogued: the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), architect
We have recently completed a catalogue of the collection of Alfred Darbyshire (1839-1908), a leading Manchester architect and a prominent figure in the social and cultural life of the city during the...
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Artist Residency reflections – music inspired by the Alan Turing Archive.
Written by Dr Joshua Brown, former Artist in Residence at the John Rylands Research Institute. It was a natural next step to conduct research into Alan Turing’s work on computer programming following...
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From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections
Dr Stefania Silvestri, post-doctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Jewish Studies, writes: Jewish women, in Israel and throughout the Diaspora, have always treasured an important document:...
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Palladium – Appraisal Experiments with the Email of Poet Elaine Feinstein
In this latest update on the Palladium email archive project, I explore an additional appraisal experiment, carried out with the intention of creating a small sub-collection which could be made...
View ArticleDigital Collections Internship – Part 1
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was a pilot scheme, responding to a request from a local BA Photography student...
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Digital Collections Internship – part 2 – SPOTLIGHT on Hana Sharkey
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021, Hana got in touch with Imaging to ask if there were any opportunities for work...
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Speaking to angels: Charaktêres in Jewish magical manuscripts – Part I
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, and anoint your face with them.” Fig. 1. Manchester, John Rylands Library, Gaster Hebrew MS...
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