Thomas Barritt’s sketchbook
This week in our 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series, it’s the turn of Thomas Barritt and his remarkable C18th sketchbook. In it, he recorded people and places from Manchester and...
Read moreThis week in our 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series, it’s the turn of Thomas Barritt and his remarkable C18th sketchbook. In it, he recorded people and places from Manchester and...
Read moreA cigarette card from the ‘Sights of Britain’ series, showing the boys from Chetham’s Hospital taking part in the Founder’s Day procession in their traditional Blue Coat uniforms. The card...
Read moreThe beautiful seventeenth-century Library interior with its gated oak presses attracts a great deal of attention from photographers and film-makers, who frequently have a natural affinity for its atmospheric environment....
Read moreOne of Chetham’s most famous residents has provided the inspiration for a new musical work by Damon Albarn, which is being premiered in July as part of the Manchester International...
Read moreWe are very pleased to announce the recent publication of Matthew Yeo’s The Acquisition of Books by Chetham’s Library, 1655-1700, part of Brill’s Library of the Written Word series. It...
Read moreThe Library has recently acquired a set of around two hundred 35mm slides taken by Prestwich resident Margaret Openshaw Newbold (1905-1998). These form part of a collection donated by Ian...
Read moreJacob Rueff (1500-1558) worked mainly as a surgeon in Zurich but also had responsibility for training midwives. His book De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554), written essentially as a manual...
Read moreWriting notes and family trees in Bibles is a very common activity, but it is rare to come across examples of sketches and drawings, especially when they appear to have...
Read moreHead over to the 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series on our website for a closer look at this beautiful illustrated work showing Sir William Hamilton’s meticulous observations of the behaviour...
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