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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Rotten to the core

    You might rightly assume that a library with a list of past users including Karl Marx, Daniel Defoe and John Wesley would not be short on works of penetrating social...

    25th November 2011 • Read more