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  1. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson

    When Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait of Mary Robinson as ‘Perdita’ from The Winter’s Tale in 1782, her affair with the Prince Regent had been over for a year, and...

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  2. Congratulations Dr Joel

    Many congratulations to our second collaborative doctorate student Joel Swann, who was awarded a PhD from Keele University for his work on seventeenth-century prose and verse miscellanies at Chetham’s Library....

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  3. Who was Apothecary Thyer?

    Find out about this eighteenth-century Manchester character as well as others including Little Major and Ogden the Fish Porter in this week’s 101 Treasures Post.

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  4. Animal, vegetable or mineral?

    Despite its sheep-like appearance, our latest ‘monstrum’ is a member of the vegetable family. This 18th-century engraving shows Polypodium barometz, a fern native to China, whose animal-like appearance and distant...

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  6. Manchester of Today

    As part of our ongoing digitisation work, we are pleased to make available Manchester of Today: an epitome of results and its sister volume Liverpool of Today, both dating from...

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  7. Conservation Grants

    We are delighted to announce that the Library has recently been awarded two significant grants, which will enable the preservation of some of our most important and valuable books. Restoring...

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  8. A window into the past

    In the 1740s and 1750s two men named Russel Casson and John Berry produced a series of exquisitely illustrated maps of Manchester and Salford. This series has become one of...

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  9. Chetham’s in the news

    We are delighted to have been featured over at Mancunian Matters on this week’s £10 Challenge, a weekly series devoted to getting the most of your money in the city...

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  10. Calling all industrial archaeologists!

    The Library has a fantastic collection of resources for anybody interested in the industrial archaeology of the region, including photographs, reports, papers and surveys, as well as a wealth of...

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