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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Diversifying our collections and practices: reflecting upon actions so far
Lianne Smith
26 February 2021
Part of the ‘Rylands Reflects’ series, in this post Lianne Smith summarises some developments in working practices since the University of Manchester Library’s statement on diversifying our collections and practices was shared last summer.
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Rylands Reflects: Representation Matters
Jessica Smith
19 February 2021
Representation Matters, Angel Cossigny talks about her quest to find intersectional figures in our collections.
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Remembering Pilot Officer Henry Allen Litherland (1921–44)
John Hodgson
16 February 2021
2021 marks the centenary of one of the most courageous members of staff ever to work at the John RylandsContinue Reading
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Cataloguing the Papers of L. P. Hartley: MA student placements at the Rylands
Jessica Smith
9 February 2021
MA Student Placements at the Rylands
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Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens Collection launches on Manchester Digital Collections
Jessica Smith
8 February 2021
19th-century writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are united in our new digital collection.
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New teaching resource on the creative process of poet John Gallas
Jessica Smith
11 January 2021
A New Creative Writing teaching resource from the Rylands.
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An accrual to the Jeff Nuttall Collections
Jessica Smith
6 January 2021
Newly acquired collection announcement.
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The Golden Tango: Ernest Wilson’s Life in Music
wilky23
31 December 2020
Researched and written by Bruce Wilkinson and Dave Goulding Donated to the John Rylands Library Special Collections in September 2019,Continue Reading
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Demanding the Impossible: Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi and the Situationist International
wilky23
22 December 2020
This is the second in a series of blogs outlining my research on Jeff Nuttall with a particular (but notContinue Reading
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A Christmas Card Conundrum
anniedickinson1824
18 December 2020
In this festive post Jane Donaldson reports on a Christmas mystery at the Rylands...
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