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1. A Thril a minute

   We recently picked up this splendid commemorative medallion from Turnstock Collectables, one of our favourite sources of ephemera. Dating from 1894 and toasting success to the Manchester Ship Canal and...

   5th June 2014 • Read more

2. Beautiful book covers

   More from the Asheton-Tonge collection today in the form of these most attractive book covers from the 1850s. The artist responsible for The Gold Worshippers is unknown but Pictures of...

   30th May 2014 • Read more

3. Museums Showoff

   Here’s Jen singing ‘The Testimony of Patience Kershaw’ at Museums Showoff at the People’s History Museum last night, in an incredibly powerful performance which made us all very proud. Thanks...

   30th May 2014 • Read more

4. Dear Prudence

     This beautifully decorated volume is part of the Asheton-Tonge collection and is one of a number of late-Victorian novels held at the Library. Prudence: A Story of Aesthetic London,...

   29th May 2014 • Read more

5. Fattò comes to the Library

   Deliveries are are a routine occurrence at Chetham’s, but there was something decidedly unusual about the small lumpy package that arrived in today’s mail. Even before we opened it, the...

   28th May 2014 • Read more

6. Plugging the gaps

   Inevitably, there are significant gaps in the Library’s collection of early printed books, which is understandable given the limited resources available to the trustees, as well as their very deliberate...

   21st May 2014 • Read more

7. Private Lives?

   A new exhibition of diaries from the collection is now on display at the Library during normal opening hours. The exhibition looks at personal journals, travel diaries, war memoirs and...

   15th May 2014 • Read more

8. The Gullinge Sonnets

     Today’s post is guest-written by Dr Joel Swann, who completed his collaborative doctorate here at Chetham’s Library in 2012, working on the Farmer-Chetham manuscript which contains a copy of...

   14th May 2014 • Read more

9. Political cartoons of 1876

   Thanks to MMU history undergraduate Rachelle Beckett we have a fantastic new page up on the website about our rare and rather wonderful collection of political cartoons from the 1870s....

   8th May 2014 • Read more

10. Courtney’s blog post

    Today we are continuing our series of blog posts written by the wonderful crew of volunteers who work tirelessly on the Library collections. This week it’s the turn of overseas...

    25th April 2014 • Read more