Teresa May with her hands tied behind her facing a spike-gloved Angela Merkel in a boxing ring, the shadow cabinet as a panicking Dad’s Army led by ‘Captain Corbyn’ wearing a Lenin...
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The first article in the June 1810 copy of the ladies’ magazine La Belle Assemblée is described as being one in a series of biographical sketches and is entitled ‘Memoirs...
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The Heywood family have recently made a very generous gift of family documents to the library. One of items in this collection is an album containing 33 items of correspondence received by members...
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The first English translation of Euclid was brought out by the printer John Daye in London in 1570. The translation was made by Henry Billingsley, (d.1606), a rich merchant who...
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Guest blog by Library volunteer, Paul Carpenter Transcript of letter by Visitor Services Officer, Carlotta Dewald On 21 June 1815, three days after the Battle of Waterloo, Private James Wilson...
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We are delighted to announce that we will be working with collaborative art practice Brass Art as part of Arts Council England’s Meeting Point 2 project, which aims to equip...
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Mycrographia Nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection (1697) is a glorious work of medical illustration. The work consists...
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One of the most interesting and attractive of the Library’s collection of illustrated books is a three-volume work entitled Amusement Microscopique by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller (1719-1769). The book appeared between 1764 and 1768, a...
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We recently received the following from Simon Bullock, who had been having a look at our ‘Virtual Belle Vue’ website : “My father, John D J Bullock originally from Burnage...
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or the most compendious, copious, facile and secret way of silent converse ever yet discovered Published in London in 1698, Digiti-Lingua is a milestone in the history of sign language....
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