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1. A surprising discovery

   Probably the most interesting and significant discovery at Chetham’s of recent years was made around a decade ago by a work experience student sorting through a pile of old prints....

   13th July 2012 • Read more

2. Lysons’ Woodchester

   This week’s treasure is Lysons’ enormous folio work about the Roman antiquities in Woodchester, Gloucestershire, published in 1797. It includes numerous exquisite hand-coloured aquatints like the one above, and is...

   6th July 2012 • Read more

3. Law and order

   Eagle-eyed viewer Matthew Yeo spotted Chetham’s Library on the television recently and wrote to us all the way from Switzerland to let us know. Thank you very much Matthew! The...

   4th July 2012 • Read more

4. Theatre Royal Playbills

     This week’s feature in our 101 Treasures series is a tightly packed scrapbook containing an unusual and complete record of performances over a full season at London’s Theatre Royal...

   29th June 2012 • Read more

5. Forget me not…

     We have recently acquired a small nineteenth-century commonplace book belonging, we think, to someone by the name of Winnie, who has collected verses, newspaper clippings, excerpts from literature and...

   20th June 2012 • Read more

6. Is cheese rational?

   Or, I think therefore Edam… The slim manuscript volume at Mun.A.3.74 looks unprepossessing in its dull 19th-century cloth binding.  Inside a late 17th-century hand promises more interest, although the title...

   15th June 2012 • Read more

7. A mighty sword

   There’s a treat in store on the website today for those with proper appreciation for an impressive weapon: General Wolfe’s Sword is this week’s featured item in the 101 Treasures...

   8th June 2012 • Read more

8. Perhaps she’s on the Railway

   For those of us who watch American politics from afar – even with all of the acuity that is the hallmark of Chetham’s Library staff – it’s sad to say...

   4th June 2012 • Read more

9. Shouldn’t you be wearing white gloves?

   Visitors to Chetham’s will be only too aware of the sartorial elegance on daily display at the Library. Indeed, of all the terms used to describe Library staff, ‘dapper’ is...

   1st June 2012 • Read more

10. “For hym that holdeth not his pyssing…”

    To celebrate the half-way stage of our 101 Treasures series, we are this week offering free fifteenth-century medical advice for anyone who may be having a spot of bother in...

    25th May 2012 • Read more