Our blogs
Find out more about what is happening in the John Rylands Library and the John Rylands Research Institute on our blogs.
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Geographical School Map Collection Placement Project
carlyannrichardson
14 August 2019
I work as a Collections assistant at the University of Manchester Library Special Collections, focusing mainly on the Library’s map collection – which is the largest in the North of England. Therefore, my ICP placement project was devised by Maps Curator, Donna Sherman, and Collection Care Manager, Jim Duff, to include both conservation and collections […]
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The Manchester Guardian Index: An Unexpected Find
John Hodgson
8 August 2019
David Goulding in our Reader Services team writes: I am fortunate enough to have two jobs at the University of Manchester Library – one as a Reader Services Assistant here at The John Rylands Library, and the other as part of the Collections Management Team based at the Main Library. Both satisfy my inquisitive nature by […]
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The Making of an Anti-Slavery Anthology: Mary-Anne Rawson and ‘The Bow in the Cloud’ (Part 1)
Gwen Riley Jones
7 August 2019
The anti-slavery anthology The Bow in the Cloud, published in 1834, came with international aspirations. It was roughly an 8-year project, one that sought to bolster various abolitionist movements throughout the world.
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John Goodwin on Zechariah 13:3
Jane Gallagher
2 August 2019
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some findings from his research as John Rylands Library Research Affiliate. Toleration, eschatology and Jewish restorationism beliefs in early modern English theology. John Goodwin (1594-1665) lived through one of the most tumultuous times in English history. He was a pious Puritan preacher of the type that […]
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Save the Date: Carcanet and the indie poetry-publishing scene exhibition, 30th September 2019
Jessica Smith
31 July 2019
Dr Victoria Stobo writes: Exciting news for poetry lovers: an exhibition of archive material relating to the poetry publisher Carcanet will be held in the Rylands Gallery of the John Rylands Library, from Monday 30th September 2019 until the end of March 2020. The exhibition forms part of the AHRC-funded research project, Survival of the […]
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Bear With us While We’re Changing
clutterbuck12
22 July 2019
The Special Collections Team are making some changes to the blog. We want to reinvigorate the blog by scoping new types of content, attracting new contributions and updating its look and feel. We’d really like your help and feedback in creating this new look. What do you like and dislike about our present blog […]
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Shooting for the Moon
aanderton
20 July 2019
Fifty years ago today NASA astronauts Commander Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the Moon, taking their first steps onto the lunar surface just hours later, on the 21st of July 1969. Many of us will have seen this iconic photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon taken by Neil Armstrong […]
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Cataloguing the Collection of Langford Brooke Glass Plate Negatives
aanderton
11 July 2019
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” – Ansel Adams This is the first in a number of Langford Brooke-related blog posts that we are going to share throughout the year. The collection consists of circa 1000 glass plate negatives, […]
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d a levy and the Cleveland Underground
Jessica Smith
9 July 2019
Bruce Wilkinson writes: In their search for innovative poetry, Tina Morris and Dave Cunliffe developed a network of small presses and little poetry magazines across Britain and around the world. Like the 1960s ‘British Poetry Revival’, the US had its own ‘Mimeograph Revolution’ with dozens of poetry publishers, journals of experimental verse and radical bookshops […]
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You Deserve a Medal!
clutterbuck12
5 July 2019
We’re pleased to announce a new addition to the Visual Collections here at the Rylands Library, in the shape of three boxes of medals, commemorative coins, ceremonial keys and one miniature portrait, all of which will sit within our collection of objects. Many of these items have arrived in pristine packaging, all different shapes and […]
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