Archive: 2015

1. Christmas with a splash – and what the Dickens?

   What does Christmas mean to you? Peaceful time spent with family and friends; long journeys to be with those you love; solitary rage and alcohol abuse; a one day gap...

   24th December 2015 • Read more

2. Christmas magic – Rylands new exhibition casts a few of our spells!

   Our friends at the John Rylands Library have found the midnight of the year – the shortest day and eve of the longest night in twelve months – the best...

   21st December 2015 • Read more

3. Pop-up Afternoon Tea at Chetham’s!

   We are thrilled to be working with the lovely people at the Tea Alchemist to offer a pop-up Afternoon Tea event in January next year. It will be a wonderful...

   16th December 2015 • Read more

4. P-p-picking up Penguins

     No, we’re not talking about the iconic, chocolate biscuit ad from the eighties… the Library has just been given a box of the (almost) equally delicious King Penguin books!...

   2nd December 2015 • Read more

5. The Medicine Cabinet: Unlocking Manchester’s Medical History

   On Saturday 12 December MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students from the University of Manchester will be presenting a pop-up exhibition in collaboration with the Museum of Medicine and...

   1st December 2015 • Read more

6. Shelf Life

   In 1655 when the first books started to arrive at Chetham’s Library they were shelved according to size, with little books on the top and the biggest books on the...

   11th November 2015 • Read more

7. An early selfie of Chetham’s

   Like many a star who’s had a long and varied career, Chetham’s as an institution has hoarded many a picture of itself, produced over years of more or less artistic...

   9th November 2015 • Read more

8. Baroque and Roll – Can you Handel it?

   More concert excitement follows thick and fast on the blog this week, as we encourage you to come down on Wednesday evening and enjoy a performance of Baroque music, some...

   6th November 2015 • Read more

9. Winter Journeys – St Cecilia Day concerts by the Hepton Singers

   You are warmly invited to an afternoon of Russian music by the Hepton Singers, directed by Alison West, on Sunday 22 November here at Chetham’s Baronial Hall. The concerts will...

   30th October 2015 • Read more

10. How are things in London, Old Man?

    Can you be an old man the moment you’re born? You can if you’re this week’s blog-hero, John Senex (1678-1740), whose name is Latin for ‘old man’. The hand of the...

    29th October 2015 • Read more