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1. Preachee and Floggy too!

   One of our most recent acquisitions relates directly to the Peterloo Massacre and is a satirical etching by George Cruikshank entitled ‘Preachee and Floggy too! Or hot & cold, with...

   10th July 2013 • Read more

2. James Taylor Staton

     James Taylor Staton by Philipp Hoyoll from the collection of Bolton Library and Museums Services on the BBC Your Paintings website One of the few Chetham’s old boys we...

   4th July 2013 • Read more

3. To cut or not to cut…

   It’s always depressing, when cataloguing, to find that the copy of the book you’re describing is imperfect, or missing something important or interesting. Often a folding plate has been lost,...

   27th June 2013 • Read more

4. Don’t give up the day job…

     Tate Britain’s major retrospective of the work of L.S. Lowry opens in London today, a welcome event which is largely regarded as long overdue. Here in Manchester we have...

   26th June 2013 • Read more

5. Incline Press

     This week’s 101 Treasures page about the Incline Press collection is a real gem so don’t waste time reading this, click on the link straight away! If you love...

   21st June 2013 • Read more

6. The old scriptorium

   This little room off the Reading Room has always been known as the Scriptorium, although we have no idea why – it’s unlikely to have ever been a place where...

   21st June 2013 • Read more

7. Heart of oak

   The Reading Room floor has now been taken up and the beams exposed ready for repair and conservation. These photos show the sheer size of the two main beams, which...

   20th June 2013 • Read more

8. The strange case of the Galway salmon fishery

   Last week, we posted a series of mysterious nineteenth-century photographs of Galway on our Flickr page. We had no idea why this album, containing about 120 prints of coastal scenes...

   19th June 2013 • Read more

9. Thank you James!

   Today we say ‘goodbye’ to James Avison, who has done sterling work here at the Library for the last few months. James has been working at Chetham’s as part of...

   14th June 2013 • Read more

10. A new view of the Reading Room

    Work has begun on preparing the Reading Room for the structural works to the floor. Most of the furniture and all of the books and paintings have been carefully removed,...

    14th June 2013 • Read more