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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Not long to go now

   Less than a month to go until the opening of our joint exhibition with the Portico Library! The exhibition will celebrate the bi-centenary of the first publication of fairytales by...

   14th September 2012 • Read more

7. Another treasure from the collection

       This elegantly ornamented medieval hymnal with a contemporary binding by the Caxton bindery is the featured item on our 101 Treasures page this week.  

   14th September 2012 • Read more

8. ‘Anne Walne is a witch and hath killd my chilld’

     A fascinating manuscript document associated with witchcraft in the Pendle area has recently come to light at the Library. One of our regular archive assistants, Robert Stansfield, has been...

   12th September 2012 • Read more

9. Later and de Laeter

   This beautiful woodcut is of Chief Powhatan, otherwise known as the father of Pocahontas, and is taken from this week’s treasure, Joannes de Laet’s Novus Orbis, or History of the...

   7th September 2012 • Read more

10. Another Friday, another discovery

      Although most of our manuscripts are well documented and often well studied, this manuscript is a bit of a mystery. Our printed documentation for Mun.A.4.105 describes it as a...

    7th September 2012 • Read more