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Archive: 2011

  1. The Manchester Man

    This week in our new series 101 Treasures of Chetham’s, we take a closer look at the original handwritten manuscript of The Manchester Man by Mrs G. Linnaeus Banks. Head...

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  2. It’s all in the stars

    The Library’s copy of A Book of Knowledge in three parts… by Samuel Strangehopes was published in London in 1685. Parts the Second and Third are devoted to anatomy, disease...

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  4. 101 Treasures of Chetham’s

    This week on the website we begin a new series highlighting some of the jewels in the Library’s crown, which as well as rare books and manuscripts will include furniture,...

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  5. Visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury

    We were very pleased to welcome the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to the Library at the end of last month. As part of his four-day visit to Manchester,...

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  6. Star of the small screen

    Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that Chetham’s Library was credited on two recent documentaries marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. BBC Religion borrowed the Library’s earliest copy...

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  7. Monochrome daze

    This image of pit brow women and the one below of children playing in the street are part of a collection associated with the antiquarian J.J. Phelps (1855-1928), who recorded...

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  8. New images of Chetham’s Library

    This unusual view of the Library is one of a new collection taken by award-winning photographer Christopher Furlong, senior photographer with Getty Images. Christopher’s imaginative shots offer a refreshing new...

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  9. Baroness Bakewell on whether libraries matter

    As libraries everywhere come under yet more threat from visigoths, polymath, author and now Baroness Joan Bakewell has proved that she is still the reading man’s crumpet. As the Guardian...

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  10. Parent’s Hope

    Enrolment certificate for the Juvenile Order of Rechabites dated 1874, belonging to Thomas Jones. The International Order of Rechabites were a temperance friendly society founded in 1835. Friendly societies were...

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