Blog

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   Cambrics Scrapbook and Catalogue Update

   We are pleased to announce that we have added a new selection of digitised images to our online catalogue. These are from our ‘Cambrics’ scrapbook, which is one of the...

   27th January 2022 • Read more

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   Charles Henry Heathcote: Designing Victorian and Edwardian Manchester

   In the first blog of the new year, we explore the life and works of one of Manchester’s influential but lesser known architects, Charles Henry Heathcote. Heathcote was active in...

   13th January 2022 • Read more

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   Thomas Whitaker

   Recently one of our readers was studying the works of Thomas Whitaker, an influential English clergyman, topographer, and antiquarian. As we have several works and the death mask of Whitaker...

   16th December 2021 • Read more

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   New History of Manchester Cathedral

   We’re delighted to be able to report the launch of the new history of Manchester Cathedral, dedicated to our late colleague and friend Michael Powell, Librarian of Chetham’s. The work...

   3rd December 2021 • Read more

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   Passing time …

   A change of pace for the Library blog this week with the story of the republication of a Manchester novel with a difference. Over to Pariah Press publisher, Jonny Walsh:...

   29th October 2021 • Read more

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   General Wolfe’s Sword

   As we are preparing to change the objects we have on display, we thought it would be a nice idea to share some of these items from our collection. In...

   16th September 2021 • Read more

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   Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia

   We thought we would share one of the treasures requested by our readers this week, the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The Cosmographia, first published in 1544, was the earliest German-language...

   11th August 2021 • Read more

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   Manor Court Rolls from the West Riding

   We are delighted to announce that the Library has acquired copies of a valuable contribution to local scholarship by Peter Hurst. Peter’s work edits and translates material from Latin to...

   13th July 2021 • Read more

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   John Bradford

   Last week we commemorated the death of Protestant martyr John Bradford on 1 July 1555, we thought this would be an excellent opportunity to go into more detail about this...

   5th July 2021 • Read more

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    Virtual Content From Festival of Libraries

    In our previous blog post, we mentioned our contribution to the Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries, a brand-new celebration of Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries. The festival was supported...

    21st June 2021 • Read more