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1. A literary photoshoot

   We were delighted to welcome photographer Katie Dervin and author Katherine Clements to the Library recently, shooting publicity shots for Katherine’s recent novel The Crimson Ribbon. Both Katherine and the...

   4th April 2014 • Read more

2. Laura’s blog post

   We are lucky to have a number of wonderful volunteers at the Library who come in week-in, week-out to do sterling work researching, cataloguing and assisting with the care of...

   3rd April 2014 • Read more

3. Creative Tourist

   Creative Tourist have written a lovely article about us which is well worth a look, see it here.

   2nd April 2014 • Read more

4. Belle Vue book published 90 years too late!

   To coincide with the Manchester Histories Festival, we are excited to announce the publication of a new ebook on the history of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens. Written nearly ninety years...

   21st March 2014 • Read more

5. The mysterious monkey lady

   Does anyone know who this glamorous lady with three adorable monkeys is? The photo was taken at Belle Vue in Manchester in – probably – the 1940s, and is from...

   14th March 2014 • Read more

6. Creative Threads

   We’ll be taking part in the Manchester Histories Festival ‘Creative Threads’ day on Sunday 23rd March, and you’re all invited! This is a brilliant opportunity to travel round the city...

   13th March 2014 • Read more

7. Gimme shelter

   The Manchester Histories Festival is fast approaching, with Belle Vue very much in the spotlight, and it’s great to see so much interest and involvement. We will of course be...

   7th March 2014 • Read more

8. A bird in a tree and the matchless Orinda

     This charming little paper cut was found recently between the pages of a seventeenth-century volume of poems. Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs Katherine Philips: the matchless Orinda...

   28th February 2014 • Read more

9. A very tall story

   The Reading Room clock has returned! It has been on tour to several specialist restoration experts over the last few months who have lavished love and attention on this beautiful...

   21st February 2014 • Read more

10. Oh! How I would squeez my Juice in thee…

    Stuck for appropriate verses for Valentine’s Day? We can help! What about a few lines from this extremely bawdy ballad from the Halliwell-Phillips Collection, in which the lovelorn dreamer imagines...

    14th February 2014 • Read more