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1. The Legend of Driff

     ‘A corset may be what this shop most resembles. The parts that show will be very attractive but those that don’t will be under considerable pressure.’ Driff’s, 1986. 
Every...

   30th May 2013 • Read more

2. A two-part history

   The buildings of Chetham’s Library were built in 1421 to house the priests of what is now Manchester Cathedral. Over two hundred years before Humphrey Chetham’s trustees even thought of...

   29th May 2013 • Read more

3. Big in Washington

     Big thanks to Ted Young of Seattle for his article about the Library in the latest edition of the Journal of the Book Club of Washington. Ted visited Chetham’s...

   29th May 2013 • Read more

4. Eccles Cakes

   As Friday is often Cake Day here at the Library we thought we would share these Eccles Cake photos, which are part of the collection of photographs of old Manchester...

   24th May 2013 • Read more

5. How do you pronounce Chetham’s?

   Quite often, the first thing people ask us when they come into the Library isn’t anything to do with the books or the medieval building, but something that has been...

   24th May 2013 • Read more

6. Angel Meadow Fest

     We were delighted to host a pop-up gallery of work by local photographer Gu yesterday, as part of the Angel Meadow Fest event organised by students at Manchester School...

   17th May 2013 • Read more

7. Looking after the Library

   It costs a lot to look after our collection and keep the books in usable condition for our readers and visitors. We are grateful for our NADFAS volunteers who come...

   17th May 2013 • Read more

8. Our longest manuscript?

   This amazing fifteenth-century manuscript roll measures a full six metres when fully extended, surely a contender for the longest of the Library’s treasures. Not just a beautiful object, this closely...

   16th May 2013 • Read more

9. John Dalton

     We have a small but interesting collection of material relating to the great scientist and mathematician John Dalton (1766-1844), who spent much of his adult life in Manchester and...

   10th May 2013 • Read more

10. A C15th interactive text with a difference

    The Library’s unique 1493 copy of Hartman Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum, otherwise known as the Nuremberg Chronicle, is under the spotlight in today’s 101 Treasures. The extensive annotations made by one...

    3rd May 2013 • Read more