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1. Gardening up north

   Wrap up warm, don your wellies and grab your umbrella – its time to celebrate the Rainy City’s summer garden festival again. Dig the City 2015 kicks off tomorrow and...

   30th July 2015 • Read more

2. Is there a doctor in the house?

   In these days of rising costs, waiting lists and funding threats to the NHS, almost everyone can relate to an exhibition that looks at the doctor-patient relationship. Last term, a...

   9th July 2015 • Read more

3. Belle Vue Bingo!

   Chetham’s Library Belle Vue Collection takes to the road again. This Saturday the 4th of July we will be at Mecca Bingo on Hyde Road in Gorton showing ephemera and...

   2nd July 2015 • Read more

4. Chetham’s in the naughty nineties

   The 1890s, that is – the original and best naughty nineties, as our governing body the Library Committee insists. Many of them remember the period well and are still hoping...

   1st July 2015 • Read more

5. ‘It had not been my intention to write a journal…’

   A small journal written by a young lady from Jersey will be the focus of today’s post. Miss Mary Ann Lemprière began her journal on 6 January 182[5], the day...

   24th June 2015 • Read more

6. Stone circles

     As symbols of British summertime, the solstice and Stonehenge go together like strawberries and cream or mud and Glastonbury. With this in mind, we have been browsing through William...

   21st June 2015 • Read more

7. The most cruel of all goddesses

   The most cruel of all goddesses, a new film by Declan Clarke, is currently showing at the new HOME arts and cinema complex in Manchester. We feature as one of...

   18th June 2015 • Read more

8. Lecture on George Shaw

   There will be a talk by Jonathan Foyle at Saddleworth Museum in Uppermill on Saturday 13th June at 2pm for anyone who is interested in the ‘Paradise Bed’ which has...

   10th June 2015 • Read more

9. The Duke of Bridgewater’s Canal

   Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater Chetham’s Library cuttings collection We are lucky to have recently received on loan a book of accounts for the Bridgewater Canal compiled between 1760...

   27th May 2015 • Read more

10. Gerald Iles at Belle Vue

    We begin the week with an ending, a final posting from Courtney Stickland. Courtney, whose previous posts A Fresh Look at Belle Vue and the Guidebooks of Belle Vue you may remember,...

    18th May 2015 • Read more