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2020
08
October
2020
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15:38
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The latest addition to the Manchester Digital Collections is a selection of vibrant materials covering six core themes from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic experience. The themes range from royalism to military affairs.
The materials are …
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30
July
2020
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14:05
Europe/London
The University of Manchester Library has been awarded Archive Service Accreditation.
Accredited Archive Services ensure the long-term collection, preservation and accessibility of our archive heritage. Accreditation is the UK quality standard …
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01
July
2020
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10:05
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The latest addition to Manchester Digital Collections, Arthur Reavil’s photographic album of Women’s Work in Wartime, which is held at The John Rylands Library, provides a glimpse into an extremely important time of social upheaval on …
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28
January
2020
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16:29
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The new image viewer allows enhanced viewing and manipulation of ultra-high quality images, with a parallel display of text, audio and video content:
View Manchester Digital Collections
Research opportunities
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2019
18
December
2019
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09:46
Europe/London
The University of Manchester Library has been awarded funding by Arts Council England to tackle the huge challenges involved in managing and making accessible modern literary archives in digital formats.
Access to email archives is fraught with …
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10
December
2019
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09:30
Europe/London
For the last three years, colleagues from The University of Manchester, University of Leeds and University of Oxford have been working together on a project researching the commentary tradition of the poetic works of the Italian Renaissance figure …
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19
November
2019
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08:58
Europe/London
You may not realise that some of our Special Collections remain a mystery to us. Constant work is undertaken to explore and catalogue our own collections.
For instance, Dr Joanne Edge has, since August 2018, been improving and digitising the …
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07
November
2019
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14:10
Europe/London
Following months of improvement works, our newly refurbished Special Collections Reading Room has now reopened.
The renovated Reading Room, on the fourth floor of The John Rylands Library, features a fully redesigned workspace, improved …
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30
October
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
The Syriac Galen Palimpsest, a unique, ancient and globally important medical manuscript, will be publicly exhibited in the UK for the first time in Seeing the Invisible, the new exhibition at The John Rylands Library. The exhibition, which runs …
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29
October
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
The John Rylands Library has loaned four items from its Special Collections to a Princeton University exhibition about early European printing.
The exhibition examines the first two decades of European printing after Gutenberg’s invention …
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16
October
2019
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10:14
Europe/London
Students and researchers now have access to two major databases of primary resources documenting the Black experience in Britain, the United States and the African diaspora after they were purchased by the Library in collaboration with academic …
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30
September
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
The map room on Purple Ground in the Main Library is being trialled as the latest Special Collections Reading Room, to allow better study of the Library’s extensive map collections.
Whilst the space has always housed maps, it is the first …
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11
April
2019
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14:11
Europe/London
Our Rylands Gallery has reopened following some improvements and the installation of a new exhibition to explore protest, challenge and change.
The new exhibition, in line with the themes of our Peterloo exhibition, is a celebration of revolution …
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18
March
2019
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08:30
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The Rylands Gallery will be closed for the week commencing 1 April for exhibition changeover and also for some maintenance and improvement work to the display cases.
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28
February
2019
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08:00
Europe/London
The refurbishment will offer improvements to the reader experience together with enhanced security and care of the collections through a redesigned staff workspace.
About the Reading Room
The room, located on the fourth floor of our Deansgate …
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2018
28
February
2018
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10:00
Europe/London
Supporting Manchester Histories Festival, The John Rylands Library will be celebrating the city's most pioneering women and sharing captivating images from our Guardian Archive.
Manchester Histories Festival is back for its third …
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2017
21
February
2017
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10:00
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Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library.
The videos can be viewed on YouTube.
The reels of black and …
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16
January
2017
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23:00
Europe/London
The University of Manchester Library has recently acquired a number of online digitised newspaper archives covering a wide variety of titles from all over the globe, and stretching as far back as 1746. From The Irish Times to The Times of India, and …
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2016
22
July
2016
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23:00
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2015
13
November
2015
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23:00
Europe/London
The Guardian Archive is one of the largest and most significant collections held by The University of Manchester Library. At the heart of the archive is the correspondence of Charles Prestwich (C.P.) Scott, who edited the newspaper from 1872 to …
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07
August
2015
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23:00
Europe/London
Despite fierce competition from 14 other institutions, the Library’s winning bid was praised for its clearly outlined project plan and the benefits it will bring. The judging panel also recognized the significance of this archive, both …
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