Blog

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   The Gestures of Hogarth

   Among the works in the collection that inspired and influenced Brass Art’s commission ‘Gestured’ were some of the engravings and etchings of William Hogarth (1697-1764). The Library’s Hogarth collection consists...

   1st November 2017 • Read more

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   You must locate a fantasy

   Announcing a new residency in partnership with Book Works For this open call we are inviting artists to propose a project that engages creatively and critically with Chetham’s Library, and...

   17th October 2017 • Read more

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   Reform and repression – the Hay Scrapbooks

   Almost 200 years after the Peterloo Massacre, we can read contemporary press reports of this horrific event in Chetham’s Library’s Hay scrapbooks, which have just returned from a much needed...

   15th September 2017 • Read more

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   Manga among the manuscripts

   Another guest post from our most excellent volunteer and great friend of the Library, Patti Collins. One of the delights of the library is that the most unlikely items often...

   25th July 2017 • Read more

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   The Revolution will not be Televised

   And indeed it wasn’t – not the French one, at least. It was engraved, however, a more genteel if slower way to record change, here presented as a Bastille day...

   14th July 2017 • Read more

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   Volunteers wanted for our summer exhibition!

   ‘Biological Hermeneutics’ July 29 – August 26 2017 Chethams’s Library is looking for volunteers to help invigilate our summer art exhibition. ‘Biological Hermeneutics’, by transdisciplinary artist Sarah Craske, is based...

   13th July 2017 • Read more

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   The Hungerford Club

   The pencil sketch of the philosopher C.E.M. Joad (1891-1953) is one of eight loose sketches contained in a folder, of which seven date from the Second World War. Only one...

   12th July 2017 • Read more

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   Bright hopes for suffrage: Lydia Becker and the struggle for democracy

   Teresa May with her hands tied behind her facing a spike-gloved Angela Merkel in a boxing ring,  the shadow cabinet as a panicking Dad’s Army led by ‘Captain Corbyn’ wearing a Lenin...

   2nd June 2017 • Read more

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   The Cross Dressing Chevalier d’Eon

   The first article in the June 1810 copy of the ladies’ magazine La Belle Assemblée is described as being one in a series of biographical sketches and is entitled ‘Memoirs...

   31st May 2017 • Read more

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    Slightly Foxed – whig politics and a fine gift

    The Heywood family have recently made a very generous gift of family documents to the library.  One of items in this collection is an album containing 33 items of correspondence received by members...

    27th April 2017 • Read more