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Archive: 2013

  1. Bishop Fraser

    In the process of returning items to the Reading Room, we have been re-examining the Bishop Fraser collection, an assortment of papers by and about the second Bishop of Manchester....

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  2. Lucky wedding rings!

    The Library, of course, has very few dusty corners, but we did recently discover, at the back of a rare cobwebby shelf, a copy of a mail order catalogue, still...

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  3. John Byrom

    John Byrom, who died today, is perhaps the most famous Chetham’s Librarian that never was. He was offered the job in 1718 but declined to accept, although his friendship with...

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  5. Location, location, location…

    More filming in the Library today, this time for Jeremy Deller’s exhibition ‘All that is solid melts into air’ which opens at Manchester Art Gallery next month. Here, Jeremy and...

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  6. RIP Humphrey Chetham

      Our founder Humphrey Chetham died on this day 360 years ago. Chetham wrote at least nine different wills during the last years of his life, each varying slightly from...

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  7. Please raise your glasses!

    As part of the Laurence Sterne tercentenary, Shandy Hall are holding an evening talk by Professor Judith Hawley on eighteenth-century clubs and toasting. We would be happy to provide suggestions...

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  9. Animal Magic

    It is always a pleasure to receive a catalogue from Sokol Books in the post and the latest edition LXIII is no exception. We are privileged to hold a number...

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  10. New digitised material on the website!

    Our Digital Resources page is growing apace, and we have just uploaded two new pdfs to the website. The first is Sir Henry Knyvett’s manuscript ‘A breefe treatis or rather...

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