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Top Stories published by Special Collections in May of 2024

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Grant Collier in Special Collections

Flyer: ‘Owens Park General Meeting on Rent Strike, also Sabbatical Presidency? Tonight (Thursday) at 8pm, be sure to be there’

Your Manchester: Student Activism in the 1970s

Blog post by Ema Fitzekova as part of the ‘Your…

Tony Richards in Special Collections

A cardboard box of glass negatives on a shelf in the library basement

Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 1)

Tony Richards in Special Collections

Alex, wearing a green jumper and purple gloves, photographing a quarter-plate glass negative placed on a light sheet

Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 2)

The Imaging Placement

Grant Collier in Special Collections

Photograph of students protesting outside the Queen’s Arch, Oxford Road.

Your Manchester: An Exploration of Manchester’s Legacy of Student Activism

Tony Richards in Special Collections

Old library index cards of the glass plate negatives

Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 3)

Cataloguing and Metadata

Dr Janette Martin in Special Collections

Hand written title ‘Heywire’. Black and white save for a cut out of a man wearing a yellow coat and peaked cap. Image of a building with clock tower. All images have been cut out, pasted on and then photocopied. price 30 p

Zines and Little Magazines: the art of DIY publishing

Guest post by Bruce Wilkinson that brings the…

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