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1. Wedding Open Day this Sunday!

   Are you looking for a beautiful, intimate medieval wedding venue in the heart of the city centre? Do you know someone who is? We have a special open day this...

   29th March 2016 • Read more

2. Meet our Volunteers – Number One: Gill Williamson

   Gill Williamson is a volunteer and Patron of Chetham’s Library, spending one day a week greeting visitors and guiding them to and around the Library. How long have you been...

   24th March 2016 • Read more

3. Number Two in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – A (Possibly non-Celtic) Celtic Stone Head

   What is it? A stone head. Obviously. What is its significance?  Possibly not as much as once thought. Possibly a great deal. A number of similar stone heads have been...

   22nd March 2016 • Read more

4. Number One in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – Oz: Schoolkids Issue

   What is it? Oz was an underground alternative magazine, originally published in Australia but brought out in London from 1967 until 1973.   What’s its significance? No. 28, Oz: Schoolkids...

   15th March 2016 • Read more

5. How to Keep the Magick Alive…

   Guest blog by Library Volunteer, Patti Collins So after Valentine’s Day has come and gone, wedding bells have duly rung and the happy couple settle down to married life, we...

   3rd March 2016 • Read more

6. Happy Birthday Byrom, From All Your Friends at Chetham’s Library

   Guest blog by friend of the Library, Dr Joel Swann This week marks the birthday of John Byrom (1692-1763), a shorthandist, poet, and (perhaps) caballist who has been a perennial...

   1st March 2016 • Read more

7. Unreal Tour / Real Spaces

   Tonight, iOrganic’s six-week residency comes to an end with the ‘The Unreal Tour’. The interactive, site-specific performance is a mixture of the building’s actual history, crowd-sourced stories, and brand new...

   18th February 2016 • Read more

8. Tickets almost gone for “The Unreal Tour”

   iOrganic’s 6 week residency will come to a head on February 18th with an evening of interactive performance. A mixture of the building’s actual history, crowd-sourced stories, and brand new...

   10th February 2016 • Read more

9. Chetham’s Library now on Instagram

   We’re a little late to the party, but Chetham’s Library is now on Instagram. Not really sure what else to add to that…except follow us for a behind-and-in-front-of-the-scenes look at...

   9th February 2016 • Read more

10. The Unreal Tour: Crowdsourced Half-truths from iOrganic

    For the last month, performing arts company iOrganic have been creating an ‘unofficial’ tour of the Library and medieval buildings, engaging with visitors to gather stories, real or imagined, about...

    3rd February 2016 • Read more