Blog

1. Artists inspired by Belle Vue

   Jenny Walker, a lecturer from the Three Dimensional Design programme at Manchester School of Art, has sent us links to three blogs written by her students who spent time with...

   25th April 2014 • Read more

2. C16th plastic surgery

   Gasparis Tagliacozzi was professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Bologna in the late sixteenth century. In 1597 he published his most famous work De Curtorum Chirurgia, a...

   23rd April 2014 • Read more

3. Happy St George’s Day!

     Slightly more ‘My Little Pony’ than fierce mythical monster is this friendly winged dragon from a late eighteenth-century broadside championing the heroics of St George. The broadside is from...

   23rd April 2014 • Read more

4. Paul’s blog post

   Here is the second in our occasional series of blog posts written by those who volunteer and do work experience at the Library. Today, it’s the turn of Paul Carpenter,...

   17th April 2014 • Read more

5. MCR13

   Find us in the new Marketing Manchester magazine along with some of the city’s other beautiful libraries including the revamped Central Library.

   16th April 2014 • Read more

6. The bear necessities

   The Belle Vue collection continues to grow in surprising ways. We have recently acquired a most unusual relic from the Zoological Gardens – a beautifully engraved red leather and chain...

   16th April 2014 • Read more

7. Gertrude Neisen

   Sadly we had no response to our query last month asking for information about the mystery monkey woman at Belle Vue. This is a pity, as the prize was going...

   16th April 2014 • Read more

8. Space monkey

   More slightly worrying fun from the halcyon days before the invention of health and safety… This wonderful photograph is from the Belle Vue collection of Brian Selby, which he is...

   11th April 2014 • Read more

9. Worse ways to die…

     Among the items that we are getting ready for digitising as part of our Belle Vue project funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Collection Fund is a ledger containing reports...

   10th April 2014 • Read more

10. Up the chimney

    Keeping priceless manuscripts up the chimney is certainly one of the less orthodox ways to archive material, but we’ll try anything once here at Chetham’s. Fortunately the private papers of...

    9th April 2014 • Read more