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Stereoscopic Images of WW1
In February the article In a Stetson and Three Dimensions: Picasso Comes to Life in 60 Year Old Pictures from The Guardian caught my eye as it described some stereoscopic images of Picasso, which are...
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Reader Services – Curious Finds –“Nuns’ Buns”
This Curious Find comes to us from Christina Brindley who is researching images of female piety and the development of post-reformation Catholicism in the Diocese of Chester 1558-1630. Christina...
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Anthony Dowd Bookbindings Now Online
Click to view slideshow. The Anthony Dowd collection of modern British bookbindings is one of the finest and most representative collections of its kind. Over a period of thirty-five years, through...
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Online Guide to Methodist Resources
The collection of printed and archival material owned by the Methodist Church of Great Britain and deposited in the Methodist Archives and Research Centre (MARC) at The John Rylands Library is...
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Manutius in Manchester – new blog
For the last few years we have been recataloguing our Aldine collection (books printed by Aldus Manutius and his heirs), which now numbers about 2000 volumes. By the end of the project all books will...
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Inaugural Lecture of the John Rylands Research Institute: Professor Ann Blair
Professor Ann Blair Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, delivered the inaugural John Rylands Research Institute Lecture, Script, Type, and Byte – Manuscripts after...
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New Website on Philosopher Samuel Alexander
One of the first pilot projects of the John Rylands Research Institute has centred upon the archive of Samuel Alexander (1859-1938), Professor of Philosophy at Owens College (later to become The...
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Curious Find – Le Tumulte Noir
This new item was brought to our attention last month after a reader had requested to see it. It caused great excitement not only for the lovely images, but also the presentation box and gloves that...
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Curious Find – Temperance Movement Cuttings Book
“Some drink when friends step in, And some when they step out; Some drink because they’re thin, And some drink because they’re stout. Some drink because ‘tis wet, And some because ‘tis dry, Some drink...
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Reinventing the Reformation in the Nineteenth Century
It has been a long haul, but the eagerly awaited volume 90 number 1 (Spring 2014) issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, edited by Peter Nockles and Vivienne Westbrook, has now been...
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The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World –...
The next seminar session is on Wednesday 21 May 2014, 3.30–5.00 pm. Our speakers are: Rachel Winchcombe (University of Manchester): Savagery and Civilisation: Representations of Americans in English...
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Holtorp Collection – Look what we found!
Following on from seminar work that Edward Wouk taught through his class, Renaissance Print Cultures, the Library has been reassessing and trying to extend our knowledge of the uncatalogued Holtorp...
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Bookbinding cartonnage: a Rylands intermezzo
Originally posted on Faces&Voices: Caroline Checkley-Scott, Tim Higson and Jennifer Cromwell This week Jennifer Cromwell has joined the John Rylands Research Institute and will stay with us as...
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The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World –...
The final seminar session for this 2013/14 year is on Wednesday 18 June 2014, 2.00–5.00 pm. In a wide-ranging wrap-up program for the year, we will hear the following papers: • Panel...
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Shedding Light on the Celebrated Victorian Educationalist, Sir James Phillips...
Jane Speller writes: A new cataloguing project funded by the John Rylands Research Institute aims to illuminate the life of the celebrated Victorian educationalist Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth...
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American Archival Pleasures
Last Friday, the John Rylands Library provided the venue for the inaugural reading group of BrANCA – the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. At an event organised by Dr Michelle...
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Dying Giants of the Countryside – E. Mitford Abraham’s Windmills and Watermills.
Banham Windmill The extent of my knowledge about windmills and watermills is mainly derived from Windy Miller and Maggie Tulliver, so I was rather intrigued when asked to get out scrapbooks and albums...
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Preserving the Email Explosion
During the past two years, the Library has been engaged in an innovative project to rescue and preserve the email archive of Manchester-based Carcanet Press, one of the UK’s leading poetry publishers....
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A Woman’s Life
Jane Speller writes: In recent weeks I have reported on the Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth archive cataloguing project. Funded by the John Rylands Research Institute, the aim of the project is to...
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Glory Through Print: Emperor Maximilian I
George Spearing writes: The Hiero von Holtorp collection has been subject to an ongoing cataloguing project facilitated by The John Rylands Research Institute. After sifting through the majority of...
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