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1. Sampling Belle Vue: a 21st-century remix

   What happens when you take sixty Manchester School of Art students and expose them to the amazing place known to generations of Mancunians as Belle Vue Gardens? That was the...

   10th September 2014 • Read more

2. Musical Monday

   Nothing like a good drinking song to get Monday off to a swing. We’ve had some interesting correspondence with Dr Douglas MacMillan concerning ‘If sorrow the Tyrant’, one of our...

   8th September 2014 • Read more

3. William Ogden’s petition to the Prince Regent

   Excellent blog post by part-time special collections librarian, PhD student and Chetham’s Library reader Emma Greenwood on ‘William Ogden and the Path to Reform’, featuring our copy of his petition...

   3rd September 2014 • Read more

4. The Ladies’ Flower-Garden

   From the collection of Edward Watkin comes this delightfully illustrated gardening manual of 1843, written by Jane Loudon and with exquisite lithographs by Day and Haghe. Jane C. Loudon (born...

   28th August 2014 • Read more

5. Heritage Open Days and New Lunchtime Opening

   Don’t forget that we are open for Heritage Open Days on Saturday 13 September. This is a rare opportunity to look round the Library and the beautiful medieval buildings at...

   28th August 2014 • Read more

6. Chetham’s Library awarded Full Museum Accreditation

   We are very happy to have been awarded Fully Accredited Museum Status as part of Arts Council England’s newly updated national Accreditation Scheme. This has involved a lot of hard...

   21st August 2014 • Read more

7. Peter Manchester

   Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, which took place on August 16th 1819. This image of ‘Peter Manchester’ is one of the more unusual and interesting images of...

   15th August 2014 • Read more

8. Come and join us on Facebook!

   If you enjoy our blog, why not join us over on Facebook for even more snippets, photographs and links? We are always looking to increase our community of ‘likers’ and...

   15th August 2014 • Read more

9. Going underground

   The Library entrance today, where our visitors normally come through into the medieval cloister… we are having new drainage and ducting but are open as usual, with visitors entering and...

   14th August 2014 • Read more

10. One of our earliest treasures

    This week we’ve been getting out a number of very early deeds to help a reader with some research. This beautiful example dates from between 1189 and 1194 and is...

    14th August 2014 • Read more