Image competition

Make your mark on the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons and win an iPod Touch or Kindle Keyboard 3G

We want you to draw, write, scribble or produce something that connects you to the University and will stand out as representative of Manchester students and the Manchester experience.

The winning images will be printed onto the walls, doors and glass panelling of the learning spaces for everyone to see.

Competition open to all students of The University of Manchester.

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The Kelmscott Chaucer

This masterpiece of book design is now available to download.

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, published by the Kelmscott Press, took four years to complete and is widely acknowledged as the zenith of 19th-century book production.

Digitised using state-of-the-art technology by specialist photographers at the Library it is now available as an eBook Treasure.

More about the Kelmscott Chaucer

Learning Commons preview

The Alan Gilbert Learning Commons opens its doors in Summer 2012.

A collaboration between partners across the University in consultation with representatives from the Students Union, the Learning Commons will offer a flexible, ultra-modern and stimulating learning space.

Managed by the JRUL, it will be open 24/7 and feature cutting edge technology.

Take the video tour and find out more

St Bartholomew's Day 1662

An exhibition at The John Rylands Library, Deansgate.

Commemorating the 350th anniversary of the events of St Bartholomew's Day 1662 when approximately 2000 ministers, including the grandfathers of John and Charles Wesley, were expelled from the Church of England in what has become known as 'The Great Ejection'.

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