What's on
Find out what events are taking place at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. All of our events are free to attend.
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The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Re-Mapping Past Weather and Climate
18 April 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Join us online to examine how historians, climatologists and their collaborators have mapped past weather and climate, drawing on a range of printed, digital, and algorithmic maps,.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Fossil Histories: South Asian Natural Heritage in the Manchester Museum and Beyond
25 April 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Join us online to explore fossils from the Indian subcontinent which are commonly found, if not always exhibited, in many natural history museums around the world. The collections.. -
Music is in our DNA
27 April 2024, 1pm-4pm
Drop into the John Rylands Research Institute and Library to listen and experience live music amongst the books. Witness accounts with vocal and musical performances by Sarah Ampi.. -
We Have Always Been Here: LGBTQ+ Voices
2 May 2024, 2.30pm-4pm
Join us at the Library to delve deeper into the stories behind our ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition, we are offering a free collections encounter; a chance to view unseen.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar: Ancient and Modern Lives of an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus
23 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Papyrus Rylands "Demotic 9" is a long (ca. 4.5 m) papyrus roll found as part of a group with other eight papyri in the ruins of el-Hibeh, Middle Egypt. This remarkable group of pap.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Translation, Teleology & Technology- Digital Humanities Studies of the Ancient World
30 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
This online talk will focus on the John Rylands Library's rare copy of the medieval Arabic translation of On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Galen of Pergamum (d. ca. 21.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: The Making of the Cranach Workshop’s Copy of the Armorial of Bianca Maria Sforza (Rylands German MS 2)
6 June 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
We'll be joined by researcher Ben Pope for this online talk focussing on Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) who, in 1565 commissioned Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–86) to mak..