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Archive: 2013

  2. The ticking of the death watch

    It’s not easy to make a piece of rotten wood interesting, but perhaps we might make an exception for this ancient and venerable timber which was once part of one...

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  3. The German Tango

    Whilst looking for something else (the usual story), we came across this striking image by the Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956). During World War One, Raemaekers produced a series of...

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  4. ‘To the ends of the earth…’

    This week’s 101 Treasures page looks at the Genoa Quadruplex Psalter, famous not only for being the first multilingual version of the Psalms but also the first printed reference to...

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  6. Get into the groove

    Phase Two of the Reading Room works has now been completed and we are well on the way to being able to replace the floorboards. The long grooves made by...

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  7. A visit to Turton Tower

      A big thank you to Steph Murfin, Curator of Applied Art with Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, who kindly showed us round Turton Tower this morning. Turton Tower was...

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  8. Never mind the Bollands

    In 1607 Heribert Rosweyde conceived an extraordinary project that would not only take the rest of his life, but another three hundred and fifty years’ work by numerous scholars –...

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  9. More pictures of the Reading Room work

    Here’s another picture of Jamie from TRAC Structural Ltd who is working on the medieval beam in the Reading Room. The noise, dust and smoke from the chainsaw is quite...

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  10. A chainsaw in the Reading Room!

    Reading Room works July 2013 a video by Chetham’s Library on Flickr. Here’s some footage of Jamie from TRAC Structural Ltd sawing into one of the medieval beams ready to...

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