Archive: 2015

1. Eliza Carthy at Chetham’s

   One of the things we’ve been doing over the last few weeks is helping to make a Radio 4 programme about nineteenth-century broadside ballads with Eliza Carthy, and this will...

   30th September 2015 • Read more

2. Medieval Manchester

   This Saturday afternoon, tour guide Anne Beswick is taking a look at medieval Manchester, starting at the Cathedral and taking in our beautiful Baronial Hall and medieval buildings. Find out...

   24th September 2015 • Read more

3. Madame Malibran

   On this day in 1836 Madame Maria Felicita Garcia Malibran de Beriot died aged 28 in Manchester. Malibran was a mezzo-soprano who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts and was regarded as the greatest...

   23rd September 2015 • Read more

4. ‘Owls, apes… monsters and sprigg’d letters’

   These beautiful flourishes and embellishments are examples of fine penmanship from a copybook published by George Shelley in 1714, The second part of Natural writing: containing the breakes of letters...

   21st September 2015 • Read more

5. Dosvidaniya, Bolton…

   Ever fancied laying waste to Bolton? And who among us can put hand on heart and say that the thought has never crossed our mind. Now, thanks to a new...

   18th September 2015 • Read more

6. Heritage Open Day this Saturday!

   Come along and visit the Library and medieval buildings this Saturday as part of Heritage Open Day! There will be free tours as well as the opportunity to wander the...

   9th September 2015 • Read more

7. Tea with Chimpanzees: Hannah Weaver’s perspective on Belle Vue

   Whilst working on the Belle Vue collection this summer on a work placement I have come to understand the history and indeed the vast legacy of Belle Vue amusement park....

   27th August 2015 • Read more

8. Thanks and Farewell. Jack Harris

   As summer draws to a close, we find ourselves bidding farewell to another of our invaluable university work-placement students. Jack spent almost three months here at the Library working on our...

   24th August 2015 • Read more

9. “What’s your favourite book?”

     The first question visitors invariably put to library staff is ‘Have you read all these books?’, to which the answer is always an automatic ‘Yes of course!’. The follow-up...

   21st August 2015 • Read more

10. Theophila and a curious letter M

      Edward Benlowes’ Theophila (1652), a 268-page poem in Latin and English, is a remarkable book for several reasons. It is said that no two copies of the Theophila are identical. Benlowes installed a...

    21st August 2015 • Read more