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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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Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
John Hodgson
20 April 2019
In this post on the John Rylands Research Institute blog, Dr Alice Marples writes: The University of Manchester Library has …Continue reading →
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Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
Alice Marples
18 April 2019
The post Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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Cataloguing the First World War correspondence of the Manchester Guardian
John Hodgson
16 April 2019
Lucy-Kay Brownson, a student on Liverpool University’s Master of Archives and Records Management course, writes: In January 2019, as …Continue reading →
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A closer look at the Manchester Observer (1819–1822)
John Hodgson
9 April 2019
Dr Janette Martin, curator of our current exhibition Peterloo: Manchester’s Fight for Freedom, writes: The spring and summer of 1819 …Continue reading →
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Jeff Nuttall and the William S. Burroughs Connection
Jessica Smith
8 April 2019
Bruce Wilkinson writes: Described in his Guardian obituary by Mike Horovitz as a ‘catalyst, perpetrator and champion of rebellion and …Continue reading →
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A closer look at the Manchester Observer (1819-1822)
Alice Marples
3 April 2019
The post A closer look at the Manchester Observer (1819-1822) appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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A Book of Ours: Manchester’s “Homeless” Engage with our Manuscripts
John Hodgson
29 March 2019
The Library is working with the arts organisation arthur+martha to facilitate the making of an illuminated manuscript at the Booth Centre …Continue reading →
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Arthur Moyse: artist, critic and bus conductor
Jessica Smith
25 March 2019
Bruce Wilkinson writes: When Dave Cunliffe moved to London in the late-1950s he befriended ‘artist, critic and bus conductor’ Arthur …Continue reading →
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Can You Name 5 Women Artists?
clutterbuck12
22 March 2019
In this, Women’s History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts is challenging people to name 5 women …Continue reading →
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Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts at the John Rylands Library
John Hodgson
20 March 2019
Dr Jo Edge writes: I’ve been employed at the John Rylands Library since August 2018, tasked with creating digital catalogue …Continue reading →
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