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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Joshua’s hens

   Writing notes and family trees in Bibles is a very common activity, but it is rare to come across examples of sketches and drawings, especially when they appear to have...

   18th May 2011 • Read more

10. Observations on volcanoes

    Head over to the 101 Treasures of Chetham’s series on our website for a closer look at this beautiful illustrated work showing Sir William Hamilton’s meticulous observations of the behaviour...

    11th May 2011 • Read more