Past events
Explore past events held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
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Exhibition Sonilluminations; Sounding the Archive
24 - 27 July 2024,
A sound installation by composer and researcher Patrick Jones, drawing inspiration from a wide range of collections held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Patrick.. -
I Was There: Alan Edwards in conversation with Andy Spinoza
11 July 2024, 6.30pm-8pm
Join the godfather of modern music PR Alan Edwards in conversation with cultural author Andy Spinoza for an evening discussing Alan Edwards’ memoir, detailing his work with every.. -
Collections Encounter: Humanitarian Archive
20 June 2024, 2pm-3.30pm
Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library to explore the World Refugee Collection with Flora Chatt, archivist of the Humanitarian Archive. This free event presen.. -
Medieval and Early Modern Studies in the North West Annual Study Day SOLD OUT
17 June 2024, 10am-4pm
The third annual study day, co-hosted by the North West Medieval and Early Modern Seminars. This event will feature a keynote lecture from Dr David Rundle (University of Kent), â€.. -
Festival of Libraries: Reading at The Rylands
15 June 2024, 12pm-4pm
Ever wondered what it means to be a reader at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library? Our Reader Services Team are hosting an open afternoon to share more about this worki.. -
Collections Encounter: Deaf Community, Culture and Collections
14 June 2024, 2pm-3.30pm
Drop into the Historic Reading Room and explore Deaf community and culture from the late 19th?century to the 1980s. With curator Steven Hartshorne, delve deeper into the stories be.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: The Making of the Cranach Workshop’s Copy of the Armorial of Bianca Maria Sforza (Rylands German MS 2)
6 June 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
We'll be joined by researcher Ben Pope for this online talk focussing on Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) who, in 1565 commissioned Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–86) to mak.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Translation, Teleology & Technology- Digital Humanities Studies of the Ancient World
30 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
This online talk will focus on the John Rylands Library's rare copy of the medieval Arabic translation of On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Galen of Pergamum (d. ca. 21.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar: Ancient and Modern Lives of an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus
23 May 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Papyrus Rylands "Demotic 9" is a long (ca. 4.5 m) papyrus roll found as part of a group with other eight papyri in the ruins of el-Hibeh, Middle Egypt. This remarkable group of pap.. -
Decoding Codices: Mesoamerican Manuscripts and Indigenous Knowledge SOLD OUT
22 May 2024, 2pm-4pm
Did you know that the Northwest of England holds some of the rarest Indigenous manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as well as other important M.. -
Collection Encounter: The Gospel of Mary
15 May 2024, 3pm-4.30pm
The Rylands holds one of only two Greek copies of the important manuscript, the Gospel of Mary. A papyrus which challenges the conventional Christian narrative that often marginali.. -
We Have Always Been Here: LGBTQ+ Voices
2 May 2024, 2.30pm-4pm
Join us at the Library to delve deeper into the stories behind our ‘We Have Always Been Here’ exhibition, we are offering a free collections encounter; a chance to view unseen.. -
The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Fossil Histories: South Asian Natural Heritage in the Manchester Museum and Beyond
25 April 2024, 1pm-1.45pm
Join us online to explore fossils from the Indian subcontinent which are commonly found, if not always exhibited, in many natural history museums around the world. The collections.. -
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..