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  1. Poets’ Corner: Industry and Identity

    6th June 2025 • Read more

  2. Cataloguing the Cass Collection

    12th May 2025 • Read more

  3. For the private amusement of Chetham’s Library

    16th April 2025 • Read more

  4. Contingency planning and The wartime library

    13th March 2025 • Read more

Archive: 2025

  1. A print depicting the Sun Inn, a leaning timber-framed building. Two stone steps lead up to the door, above which is a sign reading ‘Poets’ Corner’; next to that is another sign depicting a sun with a face.

    Poets’ Corner: Industry and Identity

    ‘Near to the gates of Chetham College, in Long Millgate, stands one of those ancient and picturesque houses, which occasionally start to view like spectres of a bygone age, but...

    6th June 2025 • Read more

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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