Past events
Explore past events held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
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The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Re-Mapping Past Weather and Climate
18 April 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Join us online to examine how historians, climatologists and their collaborators have mapped past weather and climate, drawing on a range of printed, digital, and algorithmic maps,.. -
Discover the Rylands; BSL tour
15 March 2024, 12pm-12.30pm
Experience a guided introduction tour to The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, with our engagement team and BSL interpreters, including Thomas Holroyd. The tour gives a.. -
Collections Encounter: Deaf Community, Culture and Collections
15 March 2024, 2pm-3.30pm
Join us on our collections encounter in the Historic Reading Room, exploring Deaf community and culture from the late 19th century to the 1980s. Like hearing people, Deaf people ha.. -
Epistolary Archives and Sensibilities: Between the Personal and the Scientific in Women Mathematicians’ Correspondence
5 March 2024, 5pm-6.30pm
Join us at the Rylands as Maria Tamboukou offers the notion of sensibility as a methodological move that she has deployed in conducting archival research, but also as an epistemolo.. -
Unknotting Dürer's Jerome with Professor Alexander Marr
29 February 2024, 5.15pm-6.30pm
This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map.. -
Europe meets Asia: Early Encounters, 1500-1800
24 February 2024, 2pm-4pm
Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for a fascinating exploration of the origins of cultural connections between Europe and Asia. Meet curators and researche.. -
We Have Always Been Here: LGBTQ+ Voices
23 February 2024, 2pm-4pm
Join us at the Library for the first in a series of events delving deeper into the stories behind our ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition, we are offering a free collections.. -
Dürer and the Making of Modernism with Prof Ulinka Rublack
22 February 2024, 5.15pm-6.30pm
This is a hybrid event taking place online and at the Whitworth Art Gallery on Oxford Road in the Study Centre, you can find the precise location here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk.. -
Albrecht Dürer’s Conceptions of Measurement with Prof Jeanne Nuechterlein
15 February 2024, 5.15pm-6.30pm
This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map.. -
The Printing of the Tanya
14 February 2024, 2pm-4pm
Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for this unique event. The Library will be hosting a live printing of the Tanya, a Jewish philosophical text. The traditi.. -
The Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professorship Distinguished Lecture-Professor Ira Rabin - Panorama of black writing inks: from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
1 February 2024, 5pm-6pm
Join us for this online event exploring the science of written inks. Black writing inks in the period under consideration can be divided into three different classes: soot, tannin.. -
Book Launch- Seeing for Ourselves by Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
30 January 2024, 5.15pm-7.30pm
We're pleased to partner with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Trust to welcome Suhaiymah to The Rylands to launch her new work. Why do we yearn to be seen when we are already far too visibl.. -
Collection Encounter: Ramsay MacDonald- the person behind the politics
20 January 2024, 2pm-4pm
To mark 100 years since the UK had its first Labour Government, People’s History Museum and the John Rylands Library will be collaborating on this free event. Drop-in to the beau.. -
'Solstice and Equinox' Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE
14 December 2023, 6pm-7.30pm
Join us at the next event in the ‘Solstice and Equinox’ series for a festive evening of ghost stories. Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at T.. -
Collection Encounter: The Terence Pepper collection
1 December 2023, 2pm-4pm
Come along to delve into the Terence Pepper collection, a realm of popular culture and iconic magazines newly housed in the British Pop Archive here at the Library. Terence will jo.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: New Light on the Oldest European Printed Book: the Blockbook Apocalypse
30 November 2023, 1pm-1.45pm
The stylistic dating of the unique copy of the first edition of the blockbook Apocalypse (Rylands 3103) placed it around 1425. In 1965/66 Allan Stevenson offered instead, using the.. -
40 Years of City Life
25 November 2023, 2pm-4pm
Drop in to see a selection of objects from the archive of Andy Spinoza, one of the founders of City Life. Andy will also be on hand to chat and answer all your questions about the.. -
‘Ring in the True’: The evolution of independent press in Manchester
23 November 2023, 6pm-7.45pm
Join us in the beautiful setting of our Historic Reading Room for a panel discussion on the evolution of independent press in Manchester from the 1960s through to the present day... -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: DNA in the Archive: Using Genetics to Trace Manuscripts and Books
16 November 2023, 1pm-1.45pm
In this online session Jerome de Groot will introduce new cutting-edge technologies that are being applied to manuscripts and archives. Genetic sequencing has led to huge shifts.. -
Risky Business; Would You Be Swayed?
10 November 2023, 6pm-8pm
This event blends storytelling, archive exploration, and a discussion-stimulating game as you aim to influence your own fictional financial investment. Part of the Being Human Fest.. -
Pressing Ventures at the Rylands
10 November 2023, 1pm-4pm
Part of the Being Human Festival, the John Rylands Research Institute and Library hosts two engaging drop-in activities inspired by Dr Edmond Smith's research into cultural and soc.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime seminar: Haunting at the Rectory: Women’s Words and the Ghostly Roots of Methodism
2 November 2023, 1pm-1.45pm
Please join us for a fascinating seminar delving into the unknown, as we explore a historical haunting and its place in Methodist history. This talk will explore the story of a g.. -
Founders and Funders: What Next?
27 October 2023, 1pm-4pm
Join the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in activities to promote and explore collections close to our current exhibition Founders and Funders: Slavery and the building.. -
PNR at 50 (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
19 October 2023, 7pm
7pm (Drinks Reception from 6pm) Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading and raise a toast to PN Review, celebrating 50 years of p.. -
Medieval Manuscript Collection Encounter
23 September 2023, 2pm-3.30pm
Enter the enchanting world of Western Medieval Manuscripts, held within the extraordinary neo-gothic setting of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Part of the Manches..