Archive: 2012

1. A Famous Conspiracy

   On this day 145 years ago, three Irishmen who came to be known as the Manchester Martyrs were hanged outside Salford Gaol. William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien...

   23rd November 2012 • Read more

2. A Manchester Adonis

   Sylvanus Hibbert’s snappily titled A Brief Inquiry into the State after Death, as touching the certainty thereof, and whether we shall exist in a material or immaterial substance, and whether the...

   21st November 2012 • Read more

3. Prophetic utterings

   This week in our 101 Treasures series, the spotlight rests on a number of works by an eighteenth-century religious sect known as the French Prophets, many of them illustrated manuscripts...

   16th November 2012 • Read more

4. Christmas is coming…

   …the goose is getting fat… and so are we all here at the Library, but at least we’re all ready for Christmas with our lovely letterpress printed Christmas cards, now...

   16th November 2012 • Read more

5. Oh what a night!

   We were delighted to welcome over fifty readers and friends of the Library to our private view of the ‘Danger and Destiny’ exhibition last night in the Baronial Hall. A...

   14th November 2012 • Read more

6. Tick tock

   We have a very special treat for our readers this morning – a video of a clock ticking! Yes, that’s right, a clock ticking. But this is not any old...

   9th November 2012 • Read more

7. We’re on the telly!

   The Library features not once but twice on TV next week, first of all on Monday on Flog It! and then the following day on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip… there...

   7th November 2012 • Read more

8. Private View

   Readers are cordially invited to the Private View of our ‘Danger and Destiny’ exhibition of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, next Tuesday 13th November at 6pm for 6.30pm. There will be wine...

   7th November 2012 • Read more

9. In den beghinne was dat woert

   We were pleased to have a visit from early modern history students from Manchester University yesterday, and among the items we showed them was this Fasciculus temporum printed in 1480....

   7th November 2012 • Read more

10. A first look at the Clay Scrapbook

      The newest addition to the Library’s collection of 19th-century scrapbooks is this gloriously grangerized copy of George R. Catt’s The pictorial history of Manchester. Catt’s 41-page history forms the...

    2nd November 2012 • Read more