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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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Poetry Survival and the Carcanet Press Archive
Jessica Smith
13 June 2019
Victoria Stobo writes: Since January 2019, I’ve been working as a Project Archivist in Special Collections, exploring the Carcanet Press …Continue reading →
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Digitisation of Letters by Charles Dickens in the Elizabeth Gaskell Collection
Jessica Smith
12 June 2019
I am pleased to announce that a collection of 31 letters written by Charles Dickens is now available for access …Continue reading →
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Book for a Cardinal
juliannesimpson
11 June 2019
Following on from her previous post Sara D’Amico has another discovery to share. The David Lloyd Roberts Collection is mostly …Continue reading →
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Drawing Dissection: Medical Illustrations by Joseph Jordan’s Apprentice Digitised
Charlotte Hoare
6 June 2019
I’m delighted to announce the recent digitisation of two unique books from our 19th-century medical collections. Available online in full …Continue reading →
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Pietro Antonio Ferro: an Italian painter and his book
juliannesimpson
5 June 2019
Sara D’Amico spent three months working with us as part of the EU Erasmus+ training scheme. Her project focused on …Continue reading →
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16th-century Italian books: a new partnership
juliannesimpson
3 June 2019
The Census of Italian 16th-Century Editions (EDIT 16) aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and at …Continue reading →
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The Writings of Vavasor Powell in the John Rylands Collection: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
Jane Gallagher
17 May 2019
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John Rylands …Continue reading →
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The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) Map Cataloguing Project
carlyannrichardson
15 May 2019
The Manchester Geographical Society (MGS) was launched on 21st October 1884 with a meeting in the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, …Continue reading →
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The Papers of Peter Good: An Accrual to the Dave Cunliffe Archive
Jessica Smith
14 May 2019
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Dave Cunliffe spent much of the early 1970s in Blackburn’s alternative bookshop Amamus. Increasingly a magnet for …Continue reading →
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Stories in a Box, Part 1: Dostoevsky
dominicchristian
10 May 2019
Turning to leave one of our manuscript storage areas I saw a box labelled Small Russian Manuscripts. Curious – I …Continue reading →
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