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1. Elegance and Decadence

   Eagle-eyed viewers may have spotted Chetham’s Library in scenes from the final episode of the BBC4 programme Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency last night. In this third...

   14th September 2011 • Read more

2. Curios and Curiosities: A Very Peculiar Assortment of Treasures

   Our new exhibition is now open! Come and see a celtic stone head, a death mask and a nineteenth-century sex manual, as well as a book of spells with instructions...

   2nd September 2011 • Read more

3. Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales

   Find out more about Christopher Saxton’s great achievement in this week’s feature in the 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series. The beautiful sixteenth-century map shows all the counties of England and...

   2nd September 2011 • Read more

4. A right royal read

   This week in the 101 Treasures series we take a look at a very special copy of the works of Prosper of Aquitaine. Have a look on the website to...

   26th August 2011 • Read more

5. You’re under arrest!

   The Librarian recently returned from a Scottish holiday to the Moray Firth, where he spotted this rather alarming sign on the A98 at Portsoy. Knowledge, clearly, is no guarantee against...

   24th August 2011 • Read more

6. Birds and their nests

   This week’s feature in the 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series explores the exquisite work of James Bolton in his Harmonia Ruralis, a two-volume work describing and illlustrating the birds of...

   19th August 2011 • Read more

7. Minutes of the Albert Memorial

   Another of the Library’s treasures to have a look at over on the website. Many thanks for all your concern over the Library’s safety during this week’s events in the...

   12th August 2011 • Read more

8. Sex, sermons and wig-making

   The diary of Edmund Harrold is a closely-written journal full of early eighteenth-century books, religion, sex and wig-making. Read more about this remarkable survival on the 101 Treasures page.

   5th August 2011 • Read more

9. Treading the boards

   Just a quick snap to show the reason for the Library’s current two-week closure… not too much reading going on in here at the moment. We’ll be closed until Monday...

   3rd August 2011 • Read more

10. Unlocking the code

    If you’ve been inspired by Marcus du Sautoy’s BBC2 series on nature’s mathematical code, you may be interested in our web feature on Newton’s Principia. Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,...

    29th July 2011 • Read more