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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. A Wartime (B)Log

   Guest blog by Paul Carpenter, Chetham’s Library volunteer.  One of the rewards of volunteering at Chetham’s Library is the opportunity to be the first to see some of the latest...

   27th January 2016 • Read more

6. Curiouser and Curiouser: Chetham’s Cabinet of Curiosities

   Guest blog by Dr Ceri Houlbrook, University of Manchester and Researcher in Residence at the Library in 2015. Question: What do an alligator, a snow-shoe, the sword of Oliver Cromwell,...

   19th January 2016 • Read more

7. Unreal Chetham’s – An Unofficial Official Tour From iOrganic

   For the next six weeks, performing arts company iOrganic will be creating an ‘unofficial’ tour of the Library and medieval buildings, engaging with visitors through workshops, informal interviews and social...

   12th January 2016 • Read more

8. Happy New Year! With – er – mouldy cheese?

   Everyone knows that the staff at Chetham’s Library are fun-loving, happy people, which is why most of the pictures on this blog are, like the staff, generally a bit beige...

   1st January 2016 • Read more

9. Christmas with a splash – and what the Dickens?

   What does Christmas mean to you? Peaceful time spent with family and friends; long journeys to be with those you love; solitary rage and alcohol abuse; a one day gap...

   24th December 2015 • Read more

10. Christmas magic – Rylands new exhibition casts a few of our spells!

    Our friends at the John Rylands Library have found the midnight of the year – the shortest day and eve of the longest night in twelve months – the best...

    21st December 2015 • Read more