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1. Who’s been eating my book?

   We recently had a book returned to us from the bookbinders with an unusual warning: over thirty leaves of our copy of Lactantius’s works, printed in Venice in 1478, had...

   7th August 2013 • Read more

2. All that’s best in the world of jazz…nice!

      You may think that this is only the seventeenth Manchester Jazz Festival, and in a way it is… but in a way it isn’t, because in June 1963 the...

   1st August 2013 • Read more

3. The ticking of the death watch

   It’s not easy to make a piece of rotten wood interesting, but perhaps we might make an exception for this ancient and venerable timber which was once part of one...

   1st August 2013 • Read more

4. The German Tango

   Whilst looking for something else (the usual story), we came across this striking image by the Dutch cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956). During World War One, Raemaekers produced a series of...

   26th July 2013 • Read more

5. ‘To the ends of the earth…’

   This week’s 101 Treasures page looks at the Genoa Quadruplex Psalter, famous not only for being the first multilingual version of the Psalms but also the first printed reference to...

   26th July 2013 • Read more

6. Book now for our Hidden Treasures special event!

   Hidden Treasures Special Event: Friday 23 and Saturday 24 August 2013 Chetham’s Library is proud to be taking part in this year’s Hidden Treasures initiative run by Collections Trust and...

   24th July 2013 • Read more

7. Get into the groove

   Phase Two of the Reading Room works has now been completed and we are well on the way to being able to replace the floorboards. The long grooves made by...

   24th July 2013 • Read more

8. A visit to Turton Tower

     A big thank you to Steph Murfin, Curator of Applied Art with Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, who kindly showed us round Turton Tower this morning. Turton Tower was...

   19th July 2013 • Read more

9. Never mind the Bollands

   In 1607 Heribert Rosweyde conceived an extraordinary project that would not only take the rest of his life, but another three hundred and fifty years’ work by numerous scholars –...

   18th July 2013 • Read more

10. More pictures of the Reading Room work

    Here’s another picture of Jamie from TRAC Structural Ltd who is working on the medieval beam in the Reading Room. The noise, dust and smoke from the chainsaw is quite...

    17th July 2013 • Read more