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1. Christmas and New Year Closing

   The Library will close at the usual time next Thursday 20th and will remain closed until Wednesday 2nd January at 9am. We wish all our followers, readers, visitors and friends...

   14th December 2012 • Read more

2. The man who knew everything

     This wonderfully crazy illustration is taken from one of the many works by Athanasius Kircher held by the Library. Described as ‘the last man who knew everything’, Kircher was...

   14th December 2012 • Read more

3. Our Paintings

   All the oil paintings held at Chetham’s Library are now available to view online on the BBC Your Paintings website! Your Paintings is an ambitious collaboration between the Public Catalogue...

   14th December 2012 • Read more

4. Dame Joan Bakewell is our new Honorary Patron!

   We’re thrilled to announce that Dame Joan Bakewell has kindly agreed to be the first Honorary Patron of our newly formed Patrons Scheme! This is a fantastic way to support...

   12th December 2012 • Read more

5. Hallelujah!

   It was a Happy Tuesday yesterday, as Shaun Ryder from the Happy Mondays visited the Library filming his new series for the History Channel about extra-terrestrial activity. ‘Shaun Ryder on...

   5th December 2012 • Read more

6. Politics and the Power of Print

   We’re pleased to welcome delegates to the Book History Research Network Study Day here at the Library today. The seminar is entitled ‘Politics and the Power of Print’ and those...

   30th November 2012 • Read more

7. Brave women

   This week we commemorate the 145th anniversary of the first vote cast by a woman in a British parliamentary election. Lily Maxwell, a shop-owner from Manchester, was added to the...

   28th November 2012 • Read more

8. A Famous Conspiracy

   On this day 145 years ago, three Irishmen who came to be known as the Manchester Martyrs were hanged outside Salford Gaol. William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien...

   23rd November 2012 • Read more

9. A Manchester Adonis

   Sylvanus Hibbert’s snappily titled A Brief Inquiry into the State after Death, as touching the certainty thereof, and whether we shall exist in a material or immaterial substance, and whether the...

   21st November 2012 • Read more

10. Prophetic utterings

    This week in our 101 Treasures series, the spotlight rests on a number of works by an eighteenth-century religious sect known as the French Prophets, many of them illustrated manuscripts...

    16th November 2012 • Read more