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1. Busy busy busy

   It’s all go at the Library today as the Manchester International Festival prepares to swing into action on Friday. Considerable interest has been generated by Damon Albarn’s opera Doctor Dee,...

   29th June 2011 • Read more

2. A happy coincidence

   Another visit this week from the Library’s new favourite musician, Damon Albarn, who is currently in Manchester preparing for the premiere of his opera Doctor Dee. By remarkable coincidence, the...

   24th June 2011 • Read more

3. Thomas Barritt’s sketchbook

   This week in our 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series, it’s the turn of Thomas Barritt and his remarkable C18th sketchbook. In it, he recorded people and places from Manchester and...

   22nd June 2011 • Read more

4. Sights of Britain

   A cigarette card from the ‘Sights of Britain’ series, showing the boys from Chetham’s Hospital taking part in the Founder’s Day procession in their traditional Blue Coat uniforms. The card...

   15th June 2011 • Read more

5. Patrizia Wiesner

   The beautiful seventeenth-century Library interior with its gated oak presses attracts a great deal of attention from photographers and film-makers, who frequently have a natural affinity for its atmospheric environment....

   13th June 2011 • Read more

6. Doctor Dee

   One of Chetham’s most famous residents has provided the inspiration for a new musical work by Damon Albarn, which is being premiered in July as part of the Manchester International...

   8th June 2011 • Read more

7. Yeo Ho Ho!

   We are very pleased to announce the recent publication of Matthew Yeo’s The Acquisition of Books by Chetham’s Library, 1655-1700, part of Brill’s Library of the Written Word series. It...

   3rd June 2011 • Read more

8. Oh brave new world!

   The Library has recently acquired a set of around two hundred 35mm slides taken by Prestwich resident Margaret Openshaw Newbold (1905-1998). These form part of a collection donated by Ian...

   30th May 2011 • Read more

9. A very Victorian mutilation

   Jacob Rueff (1500-1558) worked mainly as a surgeon in Zurich but also had responsibility for training midwives. His book De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554), written essentially as a manual...

   23rd May 2011 • Read more

10. Boo!

    Librarian Michael Powell was interviewed by journalist and blue badge guide Jonathan Schofield of the Creative Tourist website. The resulting audioBoo can be heard here.

    20th May 2011 • Read more