University of Manchester - Archive (library-special-collections)
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2022
29
April
2022
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14:30
Europe/London
On 18 May 2022, to celebrate the launch of the British Pop Archive, Creative Manchester will be hosting a roundtable discussion with David Olusoga OBE and broadcasting vanguards to explore the past, present, and future landscape of British TV....
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24
March
2022
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07:00
Europe/London
What’s the exhibition about?The Italian medieval author Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is known for his fantastical reimagining of the worlds of the Christian afterlife, the Commedia (Divine Comedy). The poem is a fictional eyewitness account of his jou...
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2021
03
August
2021
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15:19
Europe/London
The Letters of John Ruskin155 letters associated with one of the most influential figures of the Victorian era, English writer, philosopher and art critic John Ruskin (1819-1900), are now available on Manchester Digital Collections with enhanced desc...
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10
March
2021
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10:00
Europe/London
The John Rylands Research Institute and the University’s iconic John Rylands Library are forging an exciting new partnership as the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. The renaming signals much closer collaboration between researchers and Li...
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04
February
2021
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11:19
Europe/London
We have a substantial and diverse range of online resources available across Manchester Digital Collections, Luna and Medium. Our Special Collections staff are also on hand to provide bespoke advice on embedding Special Collections content in Teachin...
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2020
08
October
2020
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15:38
Europe/London
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 f...
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21
August
2020
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09:23
Europe/London
Following the shocking murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 and the worldwide protests that it provoked, we have taken time to reflect on the implications for us and the steps that we need to take at The University of Manchester Library ...
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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 whic...
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01
July
2020
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10:05
Europe/London
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 the Homefront.
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30
March
2020
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09:00
Europe/London
Whilst we’re unable to physically access our collections during this period of unprecedented self-isolation, work on our digital collections continues unabated.
A new digital collection, containing key works of Middle English literature, has been ...
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28
January
2020
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16:29
Europe/London
The new image viewer allows enhanced viewing and manipulation of ultra-high quality images, with a parallel display of text, audio and video content:
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Research opportunities
Manchester Digital Collectio...
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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 te...
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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 Fr...
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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 Latin...
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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 securi...
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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 betw...
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29
October
2019
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12:00
Europe/London
Since its inception, The John Rylands Library has been intended as a gift to the people of Manchester. It is with some sense of pride, therefore, that we were chosen as part of people’s artist Mancsy’s “finders keepers” project.
We received a scre...
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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 of typog...
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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 colle...
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02
October
2019
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16:16
Europe/London
The Rylands Gallery will be temporarily closed between Monday, 14 October 2019 and Thursday, 17 October 2019 while we install our new exhibition. The rest of the building will be open as usual.
The St John fragment will be on display again when th...
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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 time it ...
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13
June
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
Planning permission has been granted for the refurbishment of the Special Collections Reading Room on the fourth floor of The John Rylands Library this summer.
The Reading Room will be closed entirely on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 July. However, from ...
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25
April
2019
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12:01
Europe/London
The Library is currently working with the arts organisation arthur+martha to facilitate the making of an illuminated manuscript at the Booth Centre and other support centres for people with experiences of homelessness.
Called the “book of ours” it...
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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
Europe/London
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 s...
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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 biennial festival...
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2017
21
February
2017
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10:00
Europe/London
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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02
January
2017
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23:00
Europe/London
The archive, a world first, is a unique historical source chronicling these momentous events in such publications as Mardum-i Iran, Ayandegan and Tehran Mosavvar, some of the most influential and popular daily newspapers in Iran at the time.The newsp...
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