John Rylands Library Special Collections blog
This Special Collections blog brings you news of the many exciting developments involving the University of Manchester's Special Collections, including recent acquisitions, cataloguing and collection care projects, promotional activities and the use of the collections in research and learning. We’ll be featuring 'hidden gems' as well as more familiar material.
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“All children should see themselves represented in the books they read”
John Hodgson
17 August 2018
Originally posted on Reading Race, Collecting Cultures: And so the day finally arrived – on 3rd August our Director and long-standing Education Co-ordinator…
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Taking the pith
Elisabeth Carr
14 August 2018
Thanks to the Western world’s love of taking souvenirs, albums of paintings on pith being a prime example, the John …Continue reading →
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CFP – (Dis)connections: Networks and Archival Absences
elizabethgow
2 August 2018
Originally posted on netmat_nw: (Dis)connections: Networks and Archival Absences – Call for Papers 18th September 2018, 13.00-17.00, Christie Room, The…
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John Rylands at Manchester Histories Festival 2018
jassthethi
31 July 2018
The 2018 Manchester History Festival was themed around Protest, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech, and was held at Manchester Central …Continue reading →
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Catalogue for the Echoes of Service Archive
Jessica Smith
31 July 2018
Graham Johnson writes: In recent years major additions have been made to the important Echoes of Service Archive of missionary …Continue reading →
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Thomas Radford Medical Illustration Collection
John Hodgson
23 July 2018
We have recently completed a cataloguing project on our medical archives, generously funded by the Wellcome Trust under its Research …Continue reading →
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Letterlocking workshop at the John Rylands Library
ceciliaduminuco
18 July 2018
On the 14th of June, a practical workshop about letterlocking was organised at the John Rylands Library by the John …Continue reading →
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Introducing our community archive
John Hodgson
18 July 2018
Originally posted on Reading Race, Collecting Cultures: What is an archive? How does community heritage material end up in our archive? What do…
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The Children’s Book Collection in the Christian Brethren Archive
Jessica Smith
11 July 2018
I am pleased to announce that a collection of children’s books in the Christian Brethren Archive has been catalogued. The …Continue reading →
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D. S. Who? Looking back at dom sylvester houédard
John Hodgson
2 July 2018
Fran Horner, a postgraduate student studying the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies, in her final blog post 😦 …Continue reading →
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