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Documenting the Birth of Rail Travel
Documenting the Birth of Rail Travel
Compiling an annotated bibliography for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
Steven Hartshorne
Jul 25
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 3)
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 3)
Cataloguing and Metadata
Tony Richards
May 20
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 2)
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 2)
The Imaging Placement
Tony Richards
May 9
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 1)
Histories of Heritage Imaging at the John Rylands Library (Part 1)
Photography of the collections has been a core part of the activities of the John Rylands Library for more than a hundred years, but the…
Tony Richards
May 9
Pictures for the Christian Mass in an Old Prayer Book
Pictures for the Christian Mass in an Old Prayer Book
Rylands Latin MS 24 in the University of Manchester Special Collections is a mid-thirteenth-century English missal produced at Salisbury…
Aya Van Renterghem
Apr 26
Remembering China’s Western Palaces
Remembering China’s Western Palaces
The University of Manchester Special Collections Library is home to many spectacular rare books, and its copy of the Engraved Views of the…
Aya Van Renterghem
Apr 26
Doppelgängers and Spectres: Hauntings in Early Photography
Doppelgängers and Spectres: Hauntings in Early Photography
The album of Doppelgängers and Spectres (Rylands VPH.15) is certainly one of the most unusual items in the University of Manchester Special…
Aya Van Renterghem
Apr 26
Cotton manufacture, enslavement and the University of Manchester: a collection encounter linked to…
Cotton manufacture, enslavement and the University of Manchester: a...
This guest blog discusses activity linked to the Founders and Funders exhibition hosted by the John Rylands Library and is co-hosted by the…
Dr Janette Martin
Mar 19
Mapping the Change: Cataloguing Educational Wall Maps
Mapping the Change: Cataloguing Educational Wall Maps
UoM ICP student placement, 2024
Lise Hopwood
Feb 28
Ron Ockwell: A guiding hand for humanitarian aid
Ron Ockwell: A guiding hand for humanitarian aid
Two MA students reflect on their placement experiences working with the Ron Ockwell collection.
Aya Van Renterghem
Feb 22
Mayor John Lindsay and the New York Teachers Strike of 1968
Mayor John Lindsay and the New York Teachers Strike of 1968
Written by Olivia Howe
Dr Janette Martin
Feb 16
Paul Robeson in Manchester
Paul Robeson in Manchester
Written by Anya Carr
Dr Janette Martin
Feb 16
Racial Discrimination in America’s Construction Trade Unions
Racial Discrimination in America’s Construction Trade Unions
Written by Elizabeth Owens
Dr Janette Martin
Feb 16
10 things I wish I knew before starting a Special Collections video project
10 things I wish I knew before starting a Special Collections video...
This summer I have been working with the University of Manchester’s Special Collections to create an ‘Introduction to Special Collections’…
Hannah McAuliffe
Dec 8, 2023
The Decoration of Rylands Latin MS 39: A Fifteenth-Century Prayer Book
The Decoration of Rylands Latin MS 39: A Fifteenth-Century Prayer Book
BA student Katarina Trajkovic discusses Rylands Latin MS 39, a 15th-century book of hours produced in Flanders.
Aya Van Renterghem
Jul 18, 2023
Student Work: Adopt a Book
Student Work: Adopt a Book
BA students Art History from the University of Manchester adopt a book from our collections and write a blog post on their insights…
Aya Van Renterghem
Jul 18, 2023
West African decolonisation and the Manchester Guardian Archive
West African decolonisation and the Manchester Guardian Archive
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is home to a huge number of special collections including works of art, objects…
Fatima Shaban
Jul 12, 2023
Writing the ‘Wild’ West: Nineteenth Century British Travelogues
Writing the ‘Wild’ West: Nineteenth Century British Travelogues
Guest post by Tess Welbourne, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester
Dr Janette Martin
Jun 26, 2023
The Untold History of Confederate Support in Manchester: The Manchester Southern Club
The Untold History of Confederate Support in Manchester: The Manche...
Guest post by Harry Wheatley, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester
Dr Janette Martin
Jun 26, 2023
A Good Cause: Goldwin Smith, British Political Opinion, and the American Civil War
A Good Cause: Goldwin Smith, British Political Opinion, and the Ame...
Guest post by Alexandra Hill, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester
Dr Janette Martin
Jun 26, 2023
Cataloguing the Ainsworth Printing Collection
Cataloguing the Ainsworth Printing Collection
A placement as part of the MSc in the History of Science
Steven Hartshorne
May 16, 2023
The Guardian Archive as a resource for learning about African Decolonisation
The Guardian Archive as a resource for learning about African Decol...
Guest blog by Owen Mills, postgraduate student on the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University of Manchester.
Owen Mills
May 17, 2023
Shoot to Kill: The Chicago Police Department and Black Power
Shoot to Kill: The Chicago Police Department and Black Power
By Mae Connolly
Dr Janette Martin
Aug 19, 2022
Scraps of the West: why Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tour captivated English audiences
Scraps of the West: why Buffalo Bill’s Wild West tour captivated En...
As part of the University’s History and American Studies degree, second year students are trained to make use of the rich archival…
Dr Janette Martin
Jul 7, 2022
Manchester’s Union and Emancipation Society
Manchester’s Union and Emancipation Society
As part of the University’s History and American Studies degree, second year students are trained to make use of the rich archival…
Dr Janette Martin
Jul 7, 2022
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