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1. Christmas is coming…

   …the goose is getting fat… and so are we all here at the Library, but at least we’re all ready for Christmas with our lovely letterpress printed Christmas cards, now...

   16th November 2012 • Read more

2. Oh what a night!

   We were delighted to welcome over fifty readers and friends of the Library to our private view of the ‘Danger and Destiny’ exhibition last night in the Baronial Hall. A...

   14th November 2012 • Read more

3. Tick tock

   We have a very special treat for our readers this morning – a video of a clock ticking! Yes, that’s right, a clock ticking. But this is not any old...

   9th November 2012 • Read more

4. We’re on the telly!

   The Library features not once but twice on TV next week, first of all on Monday on Flog It! and then the following day on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip… there...

   7th November 2012 • Read more

5. Private View

   Readers are cordially invited to the Private View of our ‘Danger and Destiny’ exhibition of Grimms’ Fairy Tales, next Tuesday 13th November at 6pm for 6.30pm. There will be wine...

   7th November 2012 • Read more

6. In den beghinne was dat woert

   We were pleased to have a visit from early modern history students from Manchester University yesterday, and among the items we showed them was this Fasciculus temporum printed in 1480....

   7th November 2012 • Read more

7. A first look at the Clay Scrapbook

     The newest addition to the Library’s collection of 19th-century scrapbooks is this gloriously grangerized copy of George R. Catt’s The pictorial history of Manchester. Catt’s 41-page history forms the...

   2nd November 2012 • Read more

8. A special visitor

   We had a visit from book artist Carolyn Trant recently, who came all the way from Lewes to see the Grimms’ Fairytales exhibition and wrote a lovely blogpost about us...

   2nd November 2012 • Read more

9. The only book you’ll ever need

   Edward Coote’s The English School-Master was first published in 1596. A slender book, it was nonetheless designed to contain everything necessary for teaching students of all ages to read and write in English....

   1st November 2012 • Read more

10. A full and plain evidence concerning witches

      As it’s Hallowe’en it’s time for something a bit witchy and where better to start than the ‘evidence’ presented by Joseph Glanvill in his popular work of 1681 Sadducismus...

    31st October 2012 • Read more