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1. Rude Britannia

   The Tate Gallery’s current exhibition on British comic art, Rude Britannia, has prompted Library staff to look out some of their own favourite rude images. Chetham’s Library holds works by...

   5th July 2010 • Read more

2. Strawberry Hill forever…

   Click on the image for an enlarged view The recent exhibition at the V&A, Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, reminds us that one of the Library’s most important manuscripts is...

   2nd July 2010 • Read more

3. Ex Libris: Bookplates at Chetham’s

   Bookplate collecting is a serious business. There is a plethora of collections and collectors lurking in private and in the public domain and, it seems, an entire world devoted to...

   18th June 2010 • Read more

4. Up in the air

   Senior Librarian Fergus Wilde recently took the opportunity to enjoy the view from a platform sixty feet above Chetham’s medieval buildings. The on-site arrival of a cherry picker for the...

   28th May 2010 • Read more

5. An eighteenth-century scandal

   This extremely rare, possibly unique, example of local print culture was bought from the bookseller Christian White of Modern First Editions, Ilkley. The work shows that the fascination for celebrity...

   14th May 2010 • Read more