Archive: 2012

1. Canons to the left of him!

   We are delighted to announce that Chetham’s Librarian Michael Powell has been made an Honorary Lay Canon of Manchester Cathedral and will be installed by the Dean at Evensong on...

   29th March 2012 • Read more

2. Getting stoned

   Ironic perhaps that a Christian denomination famous for its commitment to temperance should have as an early proponent a gentleman named William Seward, who ended up getting stoned… Of course...

   16th March 2012 • Read more

3. Flowers on Friday

   This week’s 101 Treasures explores one of the Library’s manuscript gems: Matthew Paris’s Flores Historiarum, or Flowers of Histories, written in the mid-thirteenth century at St Albans. Find out more...

   2nd March 2012 • Read more

4. Are you celebrating the Feast of St Matthias?

   According to this page of the 1549 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, today is the Feast of St Matthias, in honour of which the owner of the book...

   24th February 2012 • Read more

5. A secret ticket…

   It’s two hundred years since the Luddites attacked looms in the textile mills of Lancashire and Yorkshire as part of their protest against the mechanisation of the weaving industry. Find...

   17th February 2012 • Read more

6. Did you forget Valentine’s Day?

   Well, don’t bother with all those rubbish cut-price cards and reduced flower arrangements… Take a look instead at this beautiful nineteenth-century handwritten Valentine’s letter with pictorial clues and see if...

   15th February 2012 • Read more

7. Birthday look-alikes

   Senior Librarian at Chetham’s Library – One of the greatest writers of all time By an amazing coincidence, it so happens that Charles Dickens and Senior Librarian Fergus Wilde share...

   8th February 2012 • Read more

8. Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson

   When Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait of Mary Robinson as ‘Perdita’ from The Winter’s Tale in 1782, her affair with the Prince Regent had been over for a year, and...

   8th February 2012 • Read more

9. Congratulations Dr Joel

   Many congratulations to our second collaborative doctorate student Joel Swann, who was awarded a PhD from Keele University for his work on seventeenth-century prose and verse miscellanies at Chetham’s Library....

   8th February 2012 • Read more

10. Who was Apothecary Thyer?

    Find out about this eighteenth-century Manchester character as well as others including Little Major and Ogden the Fish Porter in this week’s 101 Treasures Post.

    1st February 2012 • Read more