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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We are very pleased indeed to announce that our new Virtual Belle Vue website is now live! Thanks to a generous grant by the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund and the...
