Educational activities

The Library’s Teaching, Learning and Students Team can work with academics to create lesson plans, teaching materials and other learning resources.

We can connect researchers with school and colleges with a high percentage of students from widening participation backgrounds in the Greater Manchester area and support embedding collections-based research into school and college curriculums

The Rylands can host educational resources derived from our Special Collections and can extract data on their usage to evidence impact.  Researchers can follow up with more in depth interviews with individual teachers.

If you are considering an educational output please talk to our team at an early planning stage. If they don't have the capacity they can put you in touch with external education consultants.

An example of a special collections-based teaching resource hosted on the Library website

• Faith in the Town teaching resources

Where to get advice on planning your engagement activities and evaluation.

Festivals are an effective way to engage and collaborate.