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  1. John Dee, Re-animator of Corpses, and Humphrey Chetham, Rejected Young Lover: Fictional Versions of Real People in W. H. Ainsworth’s Guy Fawkes (1841)

    10th March 2026 • Read more

  2. The Afterlives of John Dee’s Books

    28th February 2026 • Read more

  3. Shakespeare’s Third Folio: Early Readers and Their Marginalia

    12th February 2026 • Read more

  4. John Dee and Alchemy

    29th January 2026 • Read more

Tag Archive: Collections

  1. The title page of John Dee’s copy of Agostino Nifo’s Euthici Augustini. The title is printed in a gothic type in lines of decreasing length to form an inverted triangle shape, with a cross at the bottom. Above the title, the words ‘Joannes Dee 1557. 4. Maii. Londini’ have been written in a calligraphic hand in ink.

    The Afterlives of John Dee’s Books

    By the 1570s, John Dee had established at his home of Mortlake what has been described as the largest and most diverse library in Elizabethan England, containing—according to Dee—three thousand...

    28th February 2026 • Read more
  3. An engraved portrait of William Shakespeare.

    Shakespeare’s Third Folio: The Page vs. the Stage

    One of the most fascinating books in Chetham’s Library’s less well-known literature collection is a copy of Mr William Shakespeare’s comedies, histories and tragedies, published according to the true original copies,...

    7th January 2026 • Read more
  4. A pile of books with brightly-coloured historic bindings on a wooden desk. The spines of the books are facing forwards.

    Cataloguing the Cass Collection

    Maisie, our placement student, recently completed a project to finish cataloguing the Cass Collection, which originally arrived at Chetham’s Library in 2016: Between January and April, I spent 20 days...

    12th May 2025 • Read more