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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
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Steven Hartshorne
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
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Tony Richards
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
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Tony Richards
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…
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Tony Richards
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…
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Aya Van Renterghem
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…
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Aya Van Renterghem
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…
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Aya Van Renterghem
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…
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Dr Janette Martin
Mapping the Change: Cataloguing Educational Wall Maps

Mapping the Change: Cataloguing Educational Wall Maps

UoM ICP student placement, 2024
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Lise Hopwood
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.
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Aya Van Renterghem
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
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Dr Janette Martin
Paul Robeson in Manchester

Paul Robeson in Manchester

Written by Anya Carr
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Dr Janette Martin
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