‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The first English translation of Euclid was brought out by the printer John Daye in London in 1570. The translation was made by Henry Billingsley, (d.1606), a rich merchant who...
Guest blog by Library volunteer, Paul Carpenter Transcript of letter by Visitor Services Officer, Carlotta Dewald On 21 June 1815, three days after the Battle of Waterloo, Private James Wilson...
We are delighted to announce that we will be working with collaborative art practice Brass Art as part of Arts Council England’s Meeting Point 2 project, which aims to equip...
Mycrographia Nova: or, a graphical description of all the muscles in the humane body, as they arise in dissection (1697) is a glorious work of medical illustration. The work consists...
One of the most interesting and attractive of the Library’s collection of illustrated books is a three-volume work entitled Amusement Microscopique by Martin Frobenius Ledermüller (1719-1769). The book appeared between 1764 and 1768, a...
