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1. The Three Bears

     The story of the Three Bears is first recorded in narrative form by the author Robert Southey (1774-1843). The story appears in The Doctor, a rambling collection of miscellaneous...

   30th July 2012 • Read more

2. Not just an impressive projection…

     As well as revolutionising how everybody looked at the world, Geradus Mercator also produced a lavish Atlas with beautifully illustrated maps… find out more on this week’s 101 Treasures...

   27th July 2012 • Read more

3. Urning their keep

   These decorative urns are taken from James Gibb’s 1728 Book of Architecture, in which he sets out designs and suggestions for country gentlemen wishing to erect a building of taste...

   20th July 2012 • Read more

4. Happy Birthday to St Ann’s

     Today marks the 300th birthday of St Ann’s Church in Manchester, which was consecrated on July 17th 1712 by the Bishop of Chester. Here at the Library we are...

   17th July 2012 • Read more

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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