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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands- Part Two
Mrs Seacole in her Store in the Crimea (R198215.1) On the 28th March 1854 Great Britain declared war on Russia, in what would later be known as the Crimean War. Mary Seacole heard this news all the...
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From Evil Eyes to Lost Friendships: Tales from the Gaster Amulet Collection
by Dr Gal Sofer, lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The University of Manchester Special Collections showcases a fascinating collection of amulets that once...
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Introducing the Humanitarian Archive
My name is Flora Chatt, and I have recently joined the University of Manchester Library as the archivist for the Humanitarian Archive. The Humanitarian Archive is relatively new, and currently...
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On the Fringes of the Small Press Scene: Solving the Hors Commerce Press Mystery
The Dave Cunliffe Collection holds a wide array of 1960s US countercultural publications and avant-garde poetry pamphlets of the ‘Mimeograph Revolution’ but some of the most intriguing are those...
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Delia Derbyshire Day 2023: 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who
Today marks the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and the influential theme tune which brought electronic music into British homes. The iconic soundtrack was created by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills,...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project
In Europe, the new technology of printing with moveable metal type began in the middle of the 15th century, invented by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany. By 1462, printing had spread to Strasbourg,...
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Imaging watermarks
The Imaging Team have recently started work on a research project titled, ‘“Werck der Bücher”: Transitions, Experimentation, and Collaboration in Reprographic Technologies, 1440–1470’, part of which...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project
A book containing forty-eight separately printed orations or speeches from the late 15th and early 16th centuries might not at first seem to be a particularly appealing one. The speeches have, at some...
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James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): Labour’s First Prime Minister
On the 22 January 2024 it will be exactly a hundred years since the United Kingdom’s first short-lived Labour Government. Labour Party Poster reflecting on their achievements during their short time...
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No Rylands without us – Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
If you don’t see yourself reflected in the archive, does that mean your history, culture and identity aren’t important? In the summer of 2023 the Library commissioned poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan to...
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Madchester returns! Exploring the heritage of rave in the British Pop Archive
We have strenuously attempted to locate the designer of this Thunderdome flyer to give credit. Please contact us if you know who the designer was or wish to claim credit. Dr Helen Holmes and Bruce...
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Introducing the Terence Pepper Collection
by Sophia Louise Lee, placement student and collection cataloguer After training as a librarian, Terence Pepper started working at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1975. Two years later he...
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An assessment of the UK’s hostile environment: Societal and policy...
Authors: Jon Davies, Rose Broad, Michelle CoralloDepartment of Criminology, University of ManchesterContact: jonathan.davies-4@manchester.ac.uk Local Manchester editions and publications in a book...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project. 5: An early astronomical calendar and an...
The book featured here, a short publication of 64 pages, is a notable one in the history of printed books. It has the distinction of being the first book to have a separate title page, with the (in...
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Deaf Community and Culture in the Special Collections
The University of Manchester Library’s Special Collections are home to a diverse and internationally significant collection of books, manuscripts, artworks, objects and records. One such significant...
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From the Valley of Mexico to the Rylands II: the story of the Fischer Codex
As promised in our previous blog about Techialoyan Codex of Tepotzotlán (Mexican MS 1), here is the story of our Mexican MS 2, aka Codex Fischer. This short manuscript of merely three folios, that is,...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project. VI: The Mainz Catholicon of 1460
Giovanni Balbi was an Italian grammarian and theologian of the 13th century. Not much is known of his life but according to tradition, in 1272, at a mature age, he gave away all of his wealth to the...
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The Rylands celebrates the 70th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji Gurdwara
The University of Manchester Library was invited to join the Sikh community in celebrating the 70th anniversary of the oldest Gurdwara in Manchester, on July 27, 2024. The Rylands is working closely...
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Incunabula Cataloguing Project. VII: Blockbooks and the Apocalypse!
Among the treasures of early printing in the John Rylands Library is a collection of 15 blockbooks. This might not sound like an impressive number but it is the second largest collection of blockbooks...
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A 3D farewell to Dr John Hodgson
The Imaging Team were recently tasked with producing 3D reproductions of the John and Enriqueta Rylands statues in the Historic Reading Room, as a small farewell gift for Dr John Hodgson, Head of...
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