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1. Conservation Grants

   We are delighted to announce that the Library has recently been awarded two significant grants, which will enable the preservation of some of our most important and valuable books. Restoring...

   11th January 2012 • Read more

2. A window into the past

   In the 1740s and 1750s two men named Russel Casson and John Berry produced a series of exquisitely illustrated maps of Manchester and Salford. This series has become one of...

   11th January 2012 • Read more

3. Chetham’s in the news

   We are delighted to have been featured over at Mancunian Matters on this week’s £10 Challenge, a weekly series devoted to getting the most of your money in the city...

   11th January 2012 • Read more

4. Calling all industrial archaeologists!

   The Library has a fantastic collection of resources for anybody interested in the industrial archaeology of the region, including photographs, reports, papers and surveys, as well as a wealth of...

   4th January 2012 • Read more

5. Happy New Year!

   We are starting 2012 as we mean to go on here at the Library with the thirty-fifth of our 101 Treasures, which makes us over a third of the way...

   4th January 2012 • Read more

6. Christmas closing times

   The Library will be closed to readers and visitors from noon on Wednesday 21 December until 9 a.m. on Tuesday 3 January 2011. We would like to wish all our...

   14th December 2011 • Read more

7. Christians Awake!

   Find out more about the history of this much-loved Christmas carol, written by the Manchester poet John Byrom, on our 101 Treasures page this week.

   14th December 2011 • Read more

8. Gorton Parish Library

   Have a look at our 101 Treasures page this week to find out why a library of books intended for the Parish Church of St James in Gorton has found...

   7th December 2011 • Read more

9. Rocque of ages ago

   John Rocque’s exquisite 1746 map of London is quite simply a national treasure. Chetham’s Library copy has obviously seen plenty of use but remains a thing of enormous beauty which...

   30th November 2011 • Read more

10. Woe to the fattest

    In Friday’s post we looked at Edward Carpenter’s political tract England’s Ideal, part of a bound collection of thirty miscellaneous pamphlets we recently acquired from Modern First Editions of Ilkley....

    28th November 2011 • Read more