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Archive: 2012

  1. Theatre Royal Playbills

      This week’s feature in our 101 Treasures series is a tightly packed scrapbook containing an unusual and complete record of performances over a full season at London’s Theatre Royal...

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  2. Forget me not…

      We have recently acquired a small nineteenth-century commonplace book belonging, we think, to someone by the name of Winnie, who has collected verses, newspaper clippings, excerpts from literature and...

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  3. Is cheese rational?

    Or, I think therefore Edam… The slim manuscript volume at Mun.A.3.74 looks unprepossessing in its dull 19th-century cloth binding.  Inside a late 17th-century hand promises more interest, although the title...

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  4. A mighty sword

    There’s a treat in store on the website today for those with proper appreciation for an impressive weapon: General Wolfe’s Sword is this week’s featured item in the 101 Treasures...

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  5. Perhaps she’s on the Railway

    For those of us who watch American politics from afar – even with all of the acuity that is the hallmark of Chetham’s Library staff – it’s sad to say...

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  6. Shouldn’t you be wearing white gloves?

    Visitors to Chetham’s will be only too aware of the sartorial elegance on daily display at the Library. Indeed, of all the terms used to describe Library staff, ‘dapper’ is...

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  8. The mask of death

      The death mask of Thomas Dunham Whitaker is this week’s treasure in our series of 101 Treasures from the Chetham’s collection. Find out more on the website.

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  9. Ipomadon

    This week’s treasure is a unique and wonderful fifteenth-century literary anthology which contains several different items including Ipomadon, an Anglo-Norman romance. For more information, visit the website.

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  10. Military Hospitals in Rusholme

    The excellent website of the Rusholme and Victoria Park Archive is well worth a look at any time, but we are pleased to be able to direct you to their...

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