Archive: 2025

  1. Cataloguing the Cass Collection

    Maisie, our placement student, recently completed a project to finish cataloguing of the Cass Collection, which originally arrived at the Library in 2016: Between January and April, I spent 20...

    12th May 2025 Read more
  2. 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
  3. 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