Archive: 2022

1. 

   A Weaving of Words

   Inspiration from the early textile industry Chetham’s Library owes its very existence to the popularity of fustian, a coarse cloth of which the warp was linen and the weft was...

   19th December 2022 • Read more

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   The Bonnie Prince at Manchester’s ‘Palace’

   In November 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) arrived in Manchester with 6,000 troops during manoeuvring of his army as part of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The uprising,...

   29th November 2022 • Read more

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   Poetry in the Margins

   Poetry in the Margins: A Marian Missal Annotated by Lawrence Langley We’re delighted to be able to publish a first post here by Ellen Werner, who has joined us to...

   8th November 2022 • Read more

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   The Blavatnik Honresfield Library

   We recently received a donation of books and archival material from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library through the kindness of the Friends of the National Libraries. The FNL successfully raised £15 million...

   14th October 2022 • Read more

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   The Medals Of The Sun King

   Inspired by the recent anniversary of the death of Louis XIV, we investigated our two editions of  the Médailles sur les principaux événements du règne de Louis le Grand, avec...

   5th September 2022 • Read more

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   Who’s got the better Flea?

   Out for photography this week was the Micrographia Nova of Johann Franz Griendel von Ach (1631-1687), a small quarto response to the ground-breaking Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1635-1703), one of...

   12th August 2022 • Read more

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   The Kingdom and People of Siam

   On the desk today is a lovely three volume set of The Kingdom and People of Siam (1857), with a foreword by King Mongkut. These books were composed by Sir John Bowring,...

   25th July 2022 • Read more

8. 

   Instruction With Delight

   As well as a vast collection of rare and academic works the library is home to a small collection of children’s stories and fairytales. In a change of pace for...

   18th July 2022 • Read more

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   Eleazar Albin

   Recently we had an enquiry about a book that used to be part of our collection; A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) by Eleazar Albin. The work features over 300...

   11th July 2022 • Read more

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    Reading in the Library: Swati Joshi

    We thought we would share with you the experience of one of our researchers Swati Joshi who visited the library as both a reader and tourist, Swati is a PhD...

    21st June 2022 • Read more