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1. Fashion forward

   It’s common knowledge that here at the Library we’re at the cutting edge of high fashion, so obviously we’re delighted to be featured in the Manchester volume of the new...

   19th October 2012 • Read more

2. Paradise Lost

   New on the 101 Treasures page today, a look at two of the Library’s copies of Milton’s Paradise Lost, including a beautifully bound 1770 edition by the Foulis Press in...

   19th October 2012 • Read more

3. The ways of mad folk

   A browse through William Asheton Tonge’s bound set of The East Lancashire Review led to the discovery of a magnificently un-PC article entitled ‘The Ways of Mad Folk’, written by...

   15th October 2012 • Read more

4. An Account of the Foxglove

   This week we take a closer look at William Withering’s seminal work on digitalis, the first to properly study its use in the treatment of heart disease. Withering himself was...

   12th October 2012 • Read more

5. Donne over

   This week’s website treasure is our first edition of the poetry of John Donne. Although incomplete, it’s a significant work, not least because of a piece of additional verse written...

   5th October 2012 • Read more

6. That sinking feeling…

   This week’s flooding reminds us that some parts of the region are especially vulnerable to natural disasters. Northwich, which flooded earlier this week, has a history of flooding dating back...

   28th September 2012 • Read more

7. The Black Sheep of Hulme

   This week’s treasure is the 1822 satirical publication the Manchester Comet, a surprisingly amusing attack on radical politics, and the only surviving copy.

   28th September 2012 • Read more

8. Our new exhibition is now open!

   Our autumn exhibition this year is a joint enterprise with The Portico Library on the other side of Manchester, and celebrates two hundred years of Grimms’ Fairy Tales. The exhibition...

   28th September 2012 • Read more

9. Radical thinking at Chetham’s

   Many are aware that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels spent time studying together at Chetham’s, but they are by no means the only radical political theorists to have paid a...

   21st September 2012 • Read more

10. Putting on my white hat…

    On 24 September 1819, little more than a month after the Peterloo Massacre, feelings in the Manchester area were still running high as can be seen from this broadsheet produced...

    21st September 2012 • Read more