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1. Happy Birthday Thomas De Quincey

   Today is the birthday of Thomas de Quincey, who was born in Manchester on August 15th 1785. His father, a textile importer and a founder member of the Manchester Literary...

   15th August 2013 • Read more

2. It was all yellow

   The Library’s copy of William Tyndale’s New Testament takes centre stage on the website this week. Apart from being the first English translation to be taken directly from the Greek...

   14th August 2013 • Read more

3. Welcome to Catriona!

   Welcome to our newest volunteer, Catriona Graffius, who is working on listing the newly acquired Sir Edward Watkin collection. Catriona is reading English at Christ Church, Oxford, and will be...

   14th August 2013 • Read more

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. ‘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

9. 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

10. 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