All blog posts:
- Oldham Coat of Arms
- Matilda Betham: An (un)Celebrated Woman
- The Accedence of Armorie: Sixteenth-Century Paint by Numbers
- An English Renaissance Feminist: Cancelled
- A Woman’s Write: Searching For Chetham’s Published Women
- Lucy Hutchinson and the Civil War
- Note, Gentle Reader
- William Hogarth talk
- A Weaving of Words
- The Bonnie Prince at Manchester’s ‘Palace’
- Poetry in the Margins
- The Blavatnik Honresfield Library
- The Medals Of The Sun King
- Who’s got the better Flea?
- The Kingdom and People of Siam
- Instruction With Delight
- Eleazar Albin
- Reading in the Library: Swati Joshi
- Robert Bolton
- Lasers and Tudor Woodwork
- Nicholas Culpeper
- The fyrst boke of the Introduction of knowledge
- The Dilapidated College, Manchester
- The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer
- Cambrics Scrapbook and Catalogue Update
- Charles Henry Heathcote: Designing Victorian and Edwardian Manchester
- Thomas Whitaker
- New History of Manchester Cathedral
- Passing time …
- General Wolfe’s Sword
- Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia
- Manor Court Rolls from the West Riding
- John Bradford
- Virtual Content From Festival of Libraries
- Festival of Libraries
- Book Clean
- Environmental Control
- A Bread and Cheese Bookseller
- Pesky Pests
- A Restoration Ash Wednesday
- Another One Bites The Dust
- Speedway Superstars
- Good As Mould !
- A Tale of Two Statues
- Chetham’s Library receives lifeline Culture Recovery Fund grant
- Blindingly good news
- Authors and Readers in Humphrey Chetham’s Parish Libraries
- Caring for our Books
- A Small World?
- Bodies In The Library: A display of anatomy books
- Lady Day indoors
- Not In front of The Children: Fairy Tales in Chetham’s Library
- Chetham’s Library, Book Historians and Book Lovers
- Sir Edward Watkin – King of Railways
- Flights of Fancy
- Pamphlet wars: Roger L’Estrange and printed polemic in Restoration England
- “The disturbed state of these towns”: relief for special constables after Peterloo
- Manchester’s First Printed Book, 1719
- A vision for the future
- The ‘Godly English Books’ of the Gorton Chest
- From Historical Fact to Contemporary Fiction
- What’s it like to volunteer here?
- ‘Opening Up Chetham’s Library’ awarded DCMS Wolfson grant
- Weird and wonderful: Edwardian Christmas cards
- Belle Vue Miniature Railway – a beloved attraction remembered
- Robert Rose, the Bard of Colour
- An unusual acquisition
- Accidental heroes – getting in on the act
- The Pringle Collection
- The Belle Vue Scenic Railway – our Special Correspondent writes
- Dr Dee at Chetham’s – a view from illustrator Catherine Booth
- Hulme Trust Archive: Manchester through the ages
- Sweated industries: “almost ceaseless toil, hard and unlovely to the last degree”
- Another Manchester Man
- Lustrings, Peeling and thread sattins, Sarsanets, Persians, Burdets, Camblets, Calimancoes and all other sorts of Stuffs
- Graven images
- A Rare Piece of Irish History
- Apples and ale with Christmas tale will make a household merry
- Anatomy as art
- Ways of Reading ‘Gestured’ by Rowan Bailey
- Inviting the world to our table: Cooking a programme of outreach activities with “The Ballad of Chetham’s Library”
- The Gestures of Hogarth
- You must locate a fantasy
- Reform and repression – the Hay Scrapbooks
- Manga among the manuscripts
- The Revolution will not be Televised
- Volunteers wanted for our summer exhibition!
- The Hungerford Club
- Bright hopes for suffrage: Lydia Becker and the struggle for democracy
- The Cross Dressing Chevalier d’Eon
- Slightly Foxed – whig politics and a fine gift
- Eu(have got to be)clid(ding me)
- Letter from Waterloo
- Brass Art & Chetham’s Library – Meeting Point 2
- John Browne’s Mycrographia Nova
- Amusement Microscopique
- Belle Vue News – John Bullock, first manager of the New Elizabethan Ballroom
- Digiti-Lingua
- The wondrous transformation of caterpillars and their remarkable diet of flowers
- information as material
- The Ancoats Brotherhood
- Early bindings at Chetham’s library – part 2 (Leather)
- Early bindings at Chetham’s library – part 1 (Vellum)
- Chetham’s Library Announced as Arts & Heritage Meeting Point2 Museum
- A History of Manchester Fiction
- Dame of Dialect
- Seventeenth Century Crowdfunding with Knyff and Kip
- The Bees
- Cats vs Dogs
- Calendar Girls… and Boys
- Fashionable Amusements
- The Ballad of Chetham’s Library
- Thursday Lates
- Waste Not Want Not
- Dr. Ferriar or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and See Ghosts
- Hulme-orous Photos
- Two Libraries and an Orrery…
- Second city of the Empire
- Novel Experiences of Horses’ Heads – the Origins of the Palatine Building
- Samuel Bamford (1788-1872)
- Poet’s Corner – Manchester After Hours at Chetham’s Library
- M is for Manchester
- New Speedway Collection Comes to Virtual Belle Vue
- Activities for all!
- The uncertain glory of an April day…
- Number Four in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – Underwear Catalogue, 1938
- Nibbles, Tat and Myths – An Evening with the Library Patrons
- Family Activity Day
- Number Three in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – Get Your Rocks Off
- Wedding Open Day this Sunday!
- Meet our Volunteers – Number One: Gill Williamson
- Number Two in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – A (Possibly non-Celtic) Celtic Stone Head
- Number One in an Occasional Series of Stuff You Wouldn’t Expect us to Have – Oz: Schoolkids Issue
- How to Keep the Magick Alive…
- Happy Birthday Byrom, From All Your Friends at Chetham’s Library
- Unreal Tour / Real Spaces
- Tickets almost gone for “The Unreal Tour”
- Chetham’s Library now on Instagram
- The Unreal Tour: Crowdsourced Half-truths from iOrganic
- A Wartime (B)Log
- Curiouser and Curiouser: Chetham’s Cabinet of Curiosities
- Unreal Chetham’s – An Unofficial Official Tour From iOrganic
- Happy New Year! With – er – mouldy cheese?
- Christmas with a splash – and what the Dickens?
- Christmas magic – Rylands new exhibition casts a few of our spells!
- Pop-up Afternoon Tea at Chetham’s!
- P-p-picking up Penguins
- The Medicine Cabinet: Unlocking Manchester’s Medical History
- Shelf Life
- An early selfie of Chetham’s
- Baroque and Roll – Can you Handel it?
- Winter Journeys – St Cecilia Day concerts by the Hepton Singers
- How are things in London, Old Man?
- Eliza Carthy at Chetham’s
- Medieval Manchester
- Madame Malibran
- ‘Owls, apes… monsters and sprigg’d letters’
- Dosvidaniya, Bolton…
- Heritage Open Day this Saturday!
- Tea with Chimpanzees: Hannah Weaver’s perspective on Belle Vue
- Thanks and Farewell. Jack Harris
- “What’s your favourite book?”
- Theophila and a curious letter M
- Conjuring spirits in the ‘Tractatus de Nigromatia’
- A very private war
- Gardening up north
- Is there a doctor in the house?
- Belle Vue Bingo!
- Chetham’s in the naughty nineties
- ‘It had not been my intention to write a journal…’
- Stone circles
- The most cruel of all goddesses
- Lecture on George Shaw
- The Duke of Bridgewater’s Canal
- Gerald Iles at Belle Vue
- 11 May – Politics can be Murder, Prime Minister!
- A fifteen-year-old boy’s VE Day
- The conchologist’s daughters
- W/Op Hickling, R.I.P.
- St George’s Day – but who he?
- Cup of coffee anyone?
- New Exhibition – Life’s Labours Lost?
- Law and order
- Animal in the Archive
- A Dicey moment for Tricky Dicky?
- Eclipse fever, 18th century style
- Sail away
- Happy Days
- Music and Manuscript
- A journal, commenced Dec 1st 1820
- Marx in red pencil
- Good bye and good luck, Jess
- Belle Vue comes to Gorton Monastery!
- Wallpaper, the Whitworth and William Henry Arnott…
- The origin of the Sun King?
- Man of the moment: William Tyndale
- ‘He hath unmysteried the mystery of heraldry…’
- Virtual Belle Vue is Live!
- NEW! Saturday tours of Chetham’s Library
- The guidebooks of Belle Vue
- In search of a North West Passage
- Going down on the wrong end
- Chetham’s Library in the Manchester Evening News
- England in 1835
- A plain and familiar method, suitable for the meanest capacity…
- Laureate’s Choice
- At the sign of the spectacles
- Deck the Halls
- A fresh look at the Belle Vue project
- The Ariel Poems
- Manchester: Alchemical City
- An early work of botany, and a political cow
- Lunchtime closure
- From Flanders Fields to Worsley Hall
- On the radio
- Happy Birthday William Hogarth!
- A ghost-cat for Halloween
- Travels and discoveries far and near
- Men and the Fields by Adrian Bell, with drawings and lithographs by John Nash
- Belle Vue Event
- Manchester Literature Festival 6-26 October
- The Theatre of Insects, or the tangled web of Elizabethan entomology
- A closer look at the Palatine Building
- A warm welcome to George Jennison
- Farewell to Hannah
- Heritage Open Day: David’s Story
- We are open tomorrow for Heritage Open Days!
- Book now for Jonathan Foyle!
- Farewell to Laura
- Sampling Belle Vue: a 21st-century remix
- Musical Monday
- William Ogden’s petition to the Prince Regent
- The Ladies’ Flower-Garden
- Heritage Open Days and New Lunchtime Opening
- Chetham’s Library awarded Full Museum Accreditation
- Peter Manchester
- Come and join us on Facebook!
- Going underground
- One of our earliest treasures
- Annual Peterloo Walk
- Jess’s Pigeon Post
- Jonathan Foyle at Chethams
- Japanese Celebration
- The Only Way is Essex
- A visit from ARLIS
- The common press
- Crimelines
- The Diary of Mary Travers
- Japanese Gardens: A Celebration
- Succession
- New course starting in October
- News on the Palm Leaf Manuscript
- Library Closure
- Book of spells
- A model for ‘Game of Thrones’?
- John Dalton: A Cumbrian Philosopher
- Looking back at Japan
- Belle Vue: Entertainment Showground of the World
- Gin Lane
- A backhanded compliment…
- Sad songs say so much
- A Thril a minute
- Beautiful book covers
- Museums Showoff
- Dear Prudence
- Fattò comes to the Library
- Plugging the gaps
- Private Lives?
- The Gullinge Sonnets
- Political cartoons of 1876
- Courtney’s blog post
- Artists inspired by Belle Vue
- C16th plastic surgery
- Happy St George’s Day!
- Paul’s blog post
- MCR13
- The bear necessities
- Gertrude Neisen
- Space monkey
- Worse ways to die…
- Up the chimney
- A literary photoshoot
- Laura’s blog post
- Creative Tourist
- Belle Vue book published 90 years too late!
- The mysterious monkey lady
- Creative Threads
- Gimme shelter
- A bird in a tree and the matchless Orinda
- A very tall story
- Oh! How I would squeez my Juice in thee…
- Monkey business
- Worth getting out of bed for!
- Howzat?!
- ‘Dreadful havock’
- A very big adventure
- Imperfect animals…*
- Full of fascinating facts…
- Who let the dogs out?
- ‘At the hour of 8 and 22 minutes at night…’
- Chetham’s Library awarded Esmeé Fairbairn grant!
- A Merry Christmas to all our Readers!
- Fashion forward
- Several curious performances…
- ‘A truly original machine’
- Grains of gold
- Culture in Manchester
- Dear Diary…
- Mr Chambers and Persephone
- The Diaries of Dora Turnor
- Manchester Poets
- Beware the Basilisk
- The Political Apple Pie
- Captain Peacock
- November
- A head in the dandelions
- The Edward Watkin Collection
- Welcome to Michael Wood!
- A bias for binding
- Public history at a public library…
- Over to Olivia…
- Bishop Fraser
- Lucky wedding rings!
- John Byrom
- Jeremy Deller becomes our new Honorary Patron
- Location, location, location…
- RIP Humphrey Chetham
- Please raise your glasses!
- Edward and Absolom Watkin: Hidden Heroes of Radical Manchester
- Animal Magic
- New digitised material on the website!
- Catriona meets Edward Watkin
- Turning on the waterworks
- Swinging on a star
- Come and see the Reading Room!
- The Reading Room re-opens next week!
- Views in Egypt
- Happy Birthday Thomas De Quincey
- It was all yellow
- Welcome to Catriona!
- Who’s been eating my book?
- All that’s best in the world of jazz…nice!
- The ticking of the death watch
- The German Tango
- ‘To the ends of the earth…’
- Book now for our Hidden Treasures special event!
- Get into the groove
- A visit to Turton Tower
- Never mind the Bollands
- More pictures of the Reading Room work
- A chainsaw in the Reading Room!
- A visit from Jeremy Deller
- An orchard on Shudehill
- The Chetham coat of arms
- A new world of words
- Shanty-O!
- Preachee and Floggy too!
- James Taylor Staton
- To cut or not to cut…
- Don’t give up the day job…
- Incline Press
- The old scriptorium
- Heart of oak
- The strange case of the Galway salmon fishery
- Thank you James!
- A new view of the Reading Room
- Fish and ships
- The drama of Belle Vue
- John Bradford’s Bible
- What’s hidden in your tea leaves?
- The Legend of Driff
- A two-part history
- Big in Washington
- Eccles Cakes
- How do you pronounce Chetham’s?
- Angel Meadow Fest
- Looking after the Library
- Our longest manuscript?
- John Dalton
- A C15th interactive text with a difference
- Happy International Workers’ Day!
- Sarum Missal
- Delights for the eyes and the mind
- …said the gynaecologist to the Bishop
- Eighteenth-century birds
- Walker’s Croft Burial Ground
- The Strange Case of the Belgian Tarts
- Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
- Living without working
- M-m-m-m-m-m-m-my Pomona…
- The magic of Belle Vue
- John Reed at Oxford
- How manifold are thy works!
- Reminiscences of MOSI
- The Great Herbal
- A Rochdale Pioneer from Chetham’s
- How the Library got its books
- Ishe Komborera Africa
- Diaries of John Reed
- It was a dark and stormy night…
- James Crossley
- Let us together be bound!
- In defence of Richard III
- A Cure for the Winter Blues
- A Bacchanalian Garland
- Our latest newsletter is now live!
- Prince Albert and his memorial
- A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
- Who can stand before His cold?
- The Library of Cool
- Happy Birthday, Archbishop!
- “When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled”…
- Happy New Year!
- See you next year!
- Merry Christmas from the Elven Librarians
- Ambassador, you are spoiling us!
- Christmas and New Year Closing
- The man who knew everything
- Our Paintings
- Dame Joan Bakewell is our new Honorary Patron!
- Hallelujah!
- Politics and the Power of Print
- Brave women
- A Famous Conspiracy
- A Manchester Adonis
- Prophetic utterings
- Christmas is coming…
- Oh what a night!
- Tick tock
- We’re on the telly!
- Private View
- In den beghinne was dat woert
- A first look at the Clay Scrapbook
- A special visitor
- The only book you’ll ever need
- A full and plain evidence concerning witches
- Brains not beauty
- The Bondage of Pleasure
- Tudor marginalia
- The drum solo from Hell…
- Fashion forward
- Paradise Lost
- The ways of mad folk
- An Account of the Foxglove
- Donne over
- That sinking feeling…
- The Black Sheep of Hulme
- Our new exhibition is now open!
- Radical thinking at Chetham’s
- Putting on my white hat…
- Not long to go now
- Another treasure from the collection
- ‘Anne Walne is a witch and hath killd my chilld’
- Later and de Laeter
- Another Friday, another discovery
- Our e-newsletter goes live!
- Grant of Edward VI
- Chetham’s to host Poetry Prize Gala
- Homer-philia
- More views of London
- Celebrating London 2012
- Closed on Bank Holiday Monday!
- A sixteenth-century Venetian treasure
- Our father who art in hvn
- For general good conduct
- Edward Hobson: obviously no rolling stone…
- The Three Bears
- Not just an impressive projection…
- Urning their keep
- Happy Birthday to St Ann’s
- A surprising discovery
- Lysons’ Woodchester
- Law and order
- Theatre Royal Playbills
- Forget me not…
- Is cheese rational?
- A mighty sword
- Perhaps she’s on the Railway
- Shouldn’t you be wearing white gloves?
- “For hym that holdeth not his pyssing…”
- The mask of death
- Ipomadon
- Military Hospitals in Rusholme
- A reprise of Dr Dee
- Cherry Blossoms under the Full Moon
- It’s Palm Friday
- Swan upmanship
- Papal Prayers
- The Yattendon Hymnal
- Another famous communist visits Chetham’s Library
- The Pigmy Revels
- Victoria Bridge on a Saturday Night…
- Manchester, so much to answer for…
- Canons to the left of him!
- Getting stoned
- Flowers on Friday
- Are you celebrating the Feast of St Matthias?
- A secret ticket…
- Did you forget Valentine’s Day?
- Birthday look-alikes
- Here’s to you, Mrs Robinson
- Congratulations Dr Joel
- Who was Apothecary Thyer?
- Animal, vegetable or mineral?
- Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent
- Manchester of Today
- Conservation Grants
- A window into the past
- Chetham’s in the news
- Calling all industrial archaeologists!
- Happy New Year!
- Christmas closing times
- Christians Awake!
- Gorton Parish Library
- Rocque of ages ago
- Woe to the fattest
- Rotten to the core
- Roll up, roll up
- Mancuniensis in the Evening News
- Hello Boys!
- Philip’s bird
- Introducing Philip the Monster
- A sudden and terrible raine
- Glass slide collection
- A bewitching sight
- Alain Chartier
- The Glamour of Manchester
- Online exhibition now live!
- Now you see it…
- What on earth was he on about?
- Karl Marx at Chetham’s
- Little Lamb who ate thee?
- “I am treasuring these last few days of peace…”
- The mystery of Humphrey Chetham
- The Grey Lady of Chetham’s
- Manchester Weekender 2011
- Elegance and Decadence
- Curios and Curiosities: A Very Peculiar Assortment of Treasures
- Saxton’s Atlas of England and Wales
- A right royal read
- You’re under arrest!
- Birds and their nests
- Minutes of the Albert Memorial
- Sex, sermons and wig-making
- Treading the boards
- Unlocking the code
- John Dee Special!
- Attic Nights
- Chetham’s Library on The Culture Show
- Designation’s what you need…
- Busy busy busy
- A happy coincidence
- Thomas Barritt’s sketchbook
- Sights of Britain
- Patrizia Wiesner
- Doctor Dee
- Yeo Ho Ho!
- Oh brave new world!
- A very Victorian mutilation
- Boo!
- Joshua’s hens
- Observations on volcanoes
- The Manchester Man
- It’s all in the stars
- Sir Henry Knyvett’s ‘Defence of this Realm’
- 101 Treasures of Chetham’s
- Visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Star of the small screen
- Monochrome daze
- New images of Chetham’s Library
- Baroness Bakewell on whether libraries matter
- Parent’s Hope
- Four legs are better than one
- ‘The drollest concern I think I ever met with’
- Voices
- Merry Christmas!
- A terrible night for Manchester
- Who do you think they were?
- Anyone for chess?
- Two gentlemen of Manchester
- Desert Island Poems
- Manchester Fourteen Miles
- An evening’s entertainment
- “I have thought of the days of old and the years that are past”
- Laetitia Sadier
- A book of emblems
- We shall be pleased to accept the polecat
- Wife in a bag
- On the radio
- Twittered!
- A pressing situation
- Fountains galore!
- Norman wisdom
- Some unusual bindings
- Make do and mend
- De monstrorum caussis, natura, et differentiis
- The return of Matthew
- A flying visit
- Health beckons from every pie
- Rude Britannia
- Strawberry Hill forever…
- Ex Libris: Bookplates at Chetham’s
- Up in the air
- An eighteenth-century scandal