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Archive: 2012

  1. An Account of the Foxglove

    This week we take a closer look at William Withering’s seminal work on digitalis, the first to properly study its use in the treatment of heart disease. Withering himself was...

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  2. Donne over

    This week’s website treasure is our first edition of the poetry of John Donne. Although incomplete, it’s a significant work, not least because of a piece of additional verse written...

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  3. That sinking feeling…

    This week’s flooding reminds us that some parts of the region are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. Northwich, which flooded earlier this week, has a history of flooding dating back...

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  4. The Black Sheep of Hulme

    This week’s treasure is the 1822 satirical publication the Manchester Comet, a surprisingly amusing attack on radical politics, and the only surviving copy.

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  5. Our new exhibition is now open!

    Our autumn exhibition this year is a joint enterprise with The Portico Library on the other side of Manchester, and celebrates two hundred years of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. The exhibition...

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  6. Radical thinking at Chetham’s

    Many are aware that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spent time studying together at Chetham’s, but they are by no means the only radical political theorists to have paid a...

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  7. Putting on my white hat…

    On 24 September 1819, little more than a month after the Peterloo Massacre, feelings in the Manchester area were still running high as can be seen from this broadsheet produced...

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  8. Not long to go now

    Less than a month to go until the opening of our joint exhibition with the Portico Library! The exhibition will celebrate the bi-centenary of the first publication of fairytales by...

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