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1. ‘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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 11 May – Politics can be Murder, Prime Minister!

   Not in the case our newly elected one, of course – but the sad history of the demise in 1812 of PM Spencer Perceval, assassinated 203 years ago today in...

   11th May 2015 • Read more

8. A fifteen-year-old boy’s VE Day

   In 2013 the Library was donated a remarkable set of diaries written between 1939 and 2012, chronicling almost the whole of a man’s life. John Reed decided at the age...

   8th May 2015 • Read more

9. The conchologist’s daughters

   We’ve been looking at some of the library’s early books on conchology (the study of shells) and musing on the art of scientific illustration. In Robert Hooke’s words, a successful...

   7th May 2015 • Read more

10. W/Op Hickling, R.I.P.

    Although many of our books may be seen lining the shelves in the historic Library, thousands more are kept on the rolling stacks in our store rooms. These rooms are...

    28th April 2015 • Read more