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1. Happy Days

   ‘Happy days.’ We heard that phrase many times during the course of Sunday and Monday when our Belle Vue Project Team escaped from the confines of their office into the...

   11th March 2015 • Read more

2. Music and Manuscript

   Whilst Chetham’s Library doesn’t specialise in music, it does have quite large holdings of music. These range from liturgical pieces from the fifteenth-century to late nineteenth-century folk songs and ballads, and includes a wealth of seventeenth and eighteenth-century material, including...

   5th March 2015 • Read more

3. A journal, commenced Dec 1st 1820

   We have just acquired a fascinating addition to our manuscript collection in the form of a 19th-century journal. Begun on 1 December 1820 and concluded in February 1822, the journal...

   5th March 2015 • Read more

4. Marx in red pencil

     The article ‘A German Account of the Newton Review’ appeared in the Volunteer Journal for Lancashire and Cheshire on 14 September 1860. This article would not merit much attention today...

   4th March 2015 • Read more

5. Good bye and good luck, Jess

   We always hate to see our volunteers leave, even when it means they are moving on to bigger and better things. Jess Purdy, the longest-serving volunteer on our Belle Vue...

   3rd March 2015 • Read more

6. Belle Vue comes to Gorton Monastery!

   Sunday 8th and Monday 9th March from 12-4 pm Chetham’s Library is bringing its Belle Vue Collection to beautiful Gorton Monastery for a Belle Vue Festival! We’ll be joining other Belle Vue...

   27th February 2015 • Read more

7. Wallpaper, the Whitworth and William Henry Arnott…

     We recently noticed on a lower shelf in the library, an attractive, if slightly shabby, blue daisy patterned box. The pattern on both the box, and the jacket of...

   26th February 2015 • Read more

8. The origin of the Sun King?

   Charles Perrault, Courses de testes et de bague faittes par le roy, et par les princes et seigneurs de sa cour, en l’annee 1662 This collection of exuberant engravings of...

   19th February 2015 • Read more

9. Man of the moment: William Tyndale

     Fans of ‘Wolf Hall’ will have been watching with bated breath the spreading influence of Protestant reformer and translator William Tyndale, who also features in this excellent BBC documentary...

   9th February 2015 • Read more

10. ‘He hath unmysteried the mystery of heraldry…’

    Our copy of John Guillim’s Display of heraldry (5th edition 1679) is doubly delightful, as it is both a fascinating (and entertaining) early work on heraldry and also an excellent...

    6th February 2015 • Read more