Archive: 2025

  1. For the private amusement of Chetham’s Library

    Early last year, we celebrated the appointment of Julianne Simpson, as Chetham’s new Librarian, with an exhibition entitled ‘Chetham’s Librarians: Lives and Legacies’. As part of the research for this...

    16th April 2025 Read more
  2. Contingency planning and The wartime library

    On Friday 4 November 1938, the Library Committee of Chetham’s Library assembled – perhaps in the Reading Room – as Chetham’s Librarian prepared to address them. The weather in Manchester...

    13th March 2025 Read more