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1. Visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury

   We were very pleased to welcome the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to the Library at the end of last month. As part of his four-day visit to Manchester,...

   23rd March 2011 • Read more

2. Star of the small screen

   Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that Chetham’s Library was credited on two recent documentaries marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. BBC Religion borrowed the Library’s earliest copy...

   15th March 2011 • Read more

3. Monochrome daze

   This image of pit brow women and the one below of children playing in the street are part of a collection associated with the antiquarian J.J. Phelps (1855-1928), who recorded...

   9th March 2011 • Read more

4. New images of Chetham’s Library

   This unusual view of the Library is one of a new collection taken by award-winning photographer Christopher Furlong, senior photographer with Getty Images. Christopher’s imaginative shots offer a refreshing new...

   16th February 2011 • Read more

5. Baroness Bakewell on whether libraries matter

   As libraries everywhere come under yet more threat from visigoths, polymath, author and now Baroness Joan Bakewell has proved that she is still the reading man’s crumpet. As the Guardian...

   7th February 2011 • Read more

6. Parent’s Hope

   Enrolment certificate for the Juvenile Order of Rechabites dated 1874, belonging to Thomas Jones. The International Order of Rechabites were a temperance friendly society founded in 1835. Friendly societies were...

   28th January 2011 • Read more

7. Four legs are better than one

   This friendly zebra gazes out from the pages of Ulyssis Aldrovandi’s De Quadrupedibus solipedibus, published in Bologna in 1649. This important zoological work illustrates and describes several important hoofed quadrupeds,...

   26th January 2011 • Read more

8. ‘The drollest concern I think I ever met with’

   This image from John Rocque’s 1746 Plan of the cities of London and Westminster shows the church of St Mary’s Whitechapel, where in 1817 John Leech was a guest at...

   14th January 2011 • Read more

9. Voices

   Chetham’s is proud to have developed strong links with Bolton University’s MA Photography course, led by a good friend of the Library, Ian Beesley. For the last couple of years,...

   7th January 2011 • Read more

10. Merry Christmas!

    We would like to wish all our readers both real and virtual a very Merry Christmas and great strides towards success in 2011! This simple folded card is one of...

    21st December 2010 • Read more