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Ravenous Sheep and Wayward Shepherds, Stolen Corpses, and Wandering Wombs: A...
Ancient papyri are typically divided by specialists into two categories: literary and documentary. The texts grouped in the former have left an incalculable legacy in the West that is immediately...
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Two Hindustani Manuscripts at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library
A post by guest researcher Dr Manjiri Thakoor, Adjunct lecturer at Sir J J School of Art, Mumbai. As a post-doctoral researcher of Ancient Indian Culture, I was thrilled to come across a resourceful...
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Manchester is still alive
‘It’s nine years since the last really big gig at Heaton Park…and that was the Pope’, so starts Stuart Maconie’s review in the NME from the 10th August 1991 of the ‘Cities In The Park’ festival held a...
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2023 Summer placement: Hannah McAuliffe
My undergraduate graduation – the beginning of my academic journey Hello, I’m Hannah McAuliffe. I’m working with the University of Manchester’s Special Collections over the summer with the aim to...
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Elephants and Mahouts in Persianate South Asia
A guest blog post by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris-Marseille). Summary. The Genealogy of the Mahout is a distinctive Persian text on the...
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Thank you for having me!
The second instalment in our series focused on discovering the treasures of the C.A. Lejeune archive by ECR fellow Dr John D. Ayres. C.A. Lejeune [front far left] receiving Honourary Doctorate from...
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From the Valley of Mexico to the Rylands: introducing Mexican MS 1
The vast collections of the John Rylands Library never cease to surprise the curious curator. There are plenty of little-known collections and obscure items on the shelves waiting to be...
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Unlocking the secrets of English MS 24
English MS 24 (Crawford) title page: History of the Phoolkian Family I had the privilege of transcribing English MS 24 as part of the Sikh Digital Heritage Project. Written in English by an unknown...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project II
The book featured here is one of the great works of Western literature. Printed in 1469, it is the first edition (known as the editio princeps) of the works (“Opera” in Latin) of the ancient Roman...
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“Not a crackle broke the silence” – the Waorani and “Operation Auca”
Ben Hebbron, University of Manchester Library work experience student, writes: It is pertinent to note that history is almost always told from the perspective of the dominant group, a perspective...
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands- Part One
Mrs Seacole in her Store in the Crimea (R198215.1) I found Helen Rappaport’s biography, In Search of Mary Seacole, on one of my lunchtime wanders to the nearby bookshop. Her name was already familiar...
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Founders and Funders
The Race, Roots & Resistance Collective’s Network on the Legacies of Slavery at the University of Manchester Coinciding with the University’s bicentenary, the Founders and Funders: Slavery and the...
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The Heywoods
The Heywood family was “eminent and historically conspicuous”, occupying a prominent position in Liverpool and Manchester. Sir Benjamin Heywood (1793-1865) was born in St. Ann’s Square in 1793. He...
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Robinson and Heywood Family Tree
A pro-slavery culture threaded through the cultural and familial networks of Manchester’s elite. This family tree explores business and familial ties that bound the University’s funders and founders...
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Thomas Robinson
A Merchant of Manchester Thomas Robinson (1756/7-1831) was a Manchester based merchant listed amongst the Board of Directors for the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution in 1828. His son, Samuel...
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John Owens
Our Founder and Fairfield County During the 19th century, Manchester became the world’s first industrial city, at the centre of a global cotton-trading network. New transportation links such as the...
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Murray Gladstone
Manchester is known across the world for its rich history. It is the musical centre of Britain, having produced The Smiths, The Stone Roses and Oasis, to name but a few. It is home to two of the most...
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McConnel and Kennedy
Two key benefactors of the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution were James McConnel and John Kennedy, owners of the McConnel & Kennedy cotton spinning mills in Manchester. As key pioneers of...
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X-Ray Tomography of Gaster Amulet 34
Recently, the Collection Care and Imaging teams collaborated with NXCT, The National X-ray Computed Tomography centre based at The University of Manchester. For the first time, objects from the...
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Notes from the dark: Adventures in the C. A. Lejeune archive 3.
Ourselves Alone (1936: Brian Desmond Hurst): ‘Purely Sinn Fein propoganda’? The first blog post in this series examined one of the classics of 20th century cinema, Rome Open City (1945). This time,...
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