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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We are thrilled to be working with the lovely people at the Tea Alchemist to offer a pop-up Afternoon Tea event in January next year. It will be a wonderful...
No, we’re not talking about the iconic, chocolate biscuit ad from the eighties… the Library has just been given a box of the (almost) equally delicious King Penguin books!...
On Saturday 12 December MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students from the University of Manchester will be presenting a pop-up exhibition in collaboration with the Museum of Medicine and...
