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From Mss to Mmm: Jurassic Park become reality
Scientists at the universities of Manchester and York are involved in a ground-breaking project to recreate a long-extinct breed of cow. In medieval times the Orwat, native to the Veneto region of...
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Gold consolidation – assessment of an Armenian MS
Gill Birch observing Armenian MS 3. Note our new microscope, acquired thanks to the Innovation Fund! Steve Mooney using the old microscope for the consolidation of the Beatus (Latin MS 8) Collection...
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My Second Country, France: Robert Dell (1865-1940)
Project Archivist Jane Speller writes: The 1930s foreign correspondence of the Manchester Guardian (now the Guardian) reveals journalist Robert Dell as a man of great character with a sharp sense of...
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The Whitworth Art Gallery Archive: the development of a Manchester cultural...
Matthew Schofield has recently catalogued the archives of the Whitworth Art Gallery. He writes: The Whitworth Art Gallery reopened on 14 February 2015 following a £16.9 million refurbishment and...
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Manutius at the Morgan
Originally posted on Manutius in Manchester: After the Aldine-fest at the Grolier Club, it was a pleasure to return to the Morgan Library almost a year after our first visit when Maria Fredericks and...
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The Race for Westminster
Political cartoons are a regular feature in modern-day newspapers and periodicals. Cartoons have long been used to capture, and provide comment upon, significant events as they occur. As the day of the...
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The Curious Case of the Reichstag Fire: A Story from the Guardian Archive
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: The burning down of the Reichstag building in Berlin, the main seat of the German...
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Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The origins of the Guardian newspaper
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: The Manchester Guardian was first published in Manchester 194 years ago this week. In 1815...
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John Rylands Research Institute Annual Lecture: Professor Emile Schrijver
Prof. Emile G. L. Schrijver examining an Esther Scroll, Rylands Hebrew MS 22. On 30 April Professor Emile G. L. Schrijver, Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam and curator of...
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Historic Dunkirk Evacuation footage goes online
Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at the Library. They can now be viewed online on YouTube....
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Witness to Waterloo: a soldier’s first-hand account of the battle
Sandra Cruise, one of our archive volunteers, writes: The bicentenary of the battle of Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815, affords the ideal opportunity to promote one of our recent acquisitions: the...
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15C Booktrade Team Come to Rylands
Originally posted on Manutius in Manchester: On Tuesday 2nd June we were delighted to host Cristina Dondi and her 15c Booktrade Project team to the Rylands together with Laura Nuovolini from Cambridge...
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Picture Store
Elaine Sheldon from our Collection Care Team writes: Freelance paintings conservator Elizabeth Jowett has recently been working on a small number of our paintings at the John Rylands Library. Elizabeth...
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Advance Notice: John Rylands Research Institute Conference 2016
“The Other Within”: The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of the John Rylands Library Date: Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 June 2016 Venue: The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH The John...
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Letter-carver David Kindersley’s centenary
Click to view slideshow. We have recently digitised a set of slides documenting the creation of the carved and gilded lettering on the front of the John Rylands Library. You may be surprised to learn...
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Burnt Books and Degenerate Art: a story from the Archive of the Guardian...
Jane Speller, Project Archivist for the Guardian newspaper foreign correspondence cataloguing project, writes: After the end of World War I, new and highly distinct styles in theatre, literature,...
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Antibiotics at War: G. A. G. Mitchell
James Peters writes: We have recently catalogued the papers of G. A. G. Mitchell (1906-1993), professor of anatomy at the University of Manchester between 1946 and 1974. This small collection includes...
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Li Yuan-chia – The Man behind the Artist.
Over the last 4 months we have been working across teams, (The Visual Collections and The Manuscript and Archives Departments), to try and enhance our understanding of what is contained in the...
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Undiscovered collections: John Heath-Stubbs (1918 – 2006)
A team from Collection Management has recently completed restoring and cataloguing the John Heath-Stubbs Printed Book Collection which, along with his papers, were acquired by the Library in 2007 from...
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Research Associate position in the John Rylands Research Institute
The John Rylands Research Institute, a unique partnership between the Library and the University’s Faculty of Humanities, is currently advertising a one-year Research Associate position. The JRRI...
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