Blogs
Find out more about what is happening in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on our blogs.
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Sir Edward Frankland: water, politics and profits
James Peters
19 September 2025
Archivist James Peters talks about Sir Edward Frankland's career in the surprisingly politically charged subject of analysing water pollution levels
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3D printing Cuneiform 931
Tony Richards
12 September 2025
Senior Photographer Tony Richards writes about 3D printing a facsimile of Cuneiform 931 as a handling object for the public, alongside the original, at the Wellcome Collection as part of the Thirst: In Search of Water exhibition.
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A Gothic Coffer
John Gandy
3 September 2025
Guest author Ed Potten discusses a newly acquired 15th century coffret containing a woodcut print
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Digital Concrete: Reconstructing Frog, Pond, Plop
jocastlejrl
29 August 2025
Jo Castle, senior photographer at the John Rylands Library, writes about creating a digital version of a radical translation of a poem about a frog
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Filming a George Gissing Collection Encounter at the John Rylands Library
Jessica Smith
21 August 2025
Creative Arts Archivist Jessica Smith writes about the George Gissing collections at the John Rylands Library and how these are used for teaching and research
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Celebrating Janmashtami the Persian Way: Sānval Singh and the Bhāgavat Purāṇa in Persian MS 961
Tino Oudesluijs
16 August 2025
A guest blog by Pranav Prakash, specialist in the comparative study of book arts, literary cultures and religions in South Asian and Persian societies
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The Saint Christopher woodcut dated 1423
John Gandy
14 August 2025
Guest author Ed Potten discusses the dating of the unique St Christopher woodcut
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Some thoughts on dancing, a beautiful case of birds and the little scholar: a look at the Preachers’ Letters and Portraits archive
Paul Carlyle
8 August 2025
Cataloguing correspondence from the Methodist Archives and Research Centre collections
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Introducing the Early European Print collection
John Gandy
31 July 2025
John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections
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“One of the Busiest Men in Manchester”: William Edward Armytage Axon (1846-1913)
Janette Martin
11 July 2025
Guest author Lucy Evans explains how the Axon Papers collection at the John Rylands Library proved instrumental for writing her new book on the life of the prolific librarian, antiquary and journalist William Axon
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This blog is not being updated…
aiucentre
7 September 2021
but you can read more about our collections and activities on the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust website blog: https://www.racearchive.org.uk/blog/ You’ll still be able to read previous posts here, so feel free to explore our back catalogue!
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Artist in Residence: Rebecca Hurst
Kat Lowe
21 October 2020
The post Artist in Residence: Rebecca Hurst appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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Student spotlight: Alexander Hurlow
Kat Lowe
9 September 2020
The post Student spotlight: Alexander Hurlow appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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ECR Spotlight: Catherine Evans
Kat Lowe
7 August 2020
The post ECR Spotlight: Catherine Evans appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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Geographical visions of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) in the John Rylands Library
Kat Lowe
6 July 2020
The post Geographical visions of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) in the John Rylands Library appeared first on John Rylands Research Institute.
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