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  1. John Dee and Alchemy

    29th January 2026 • Read more

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

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  3. John Dee and the Tudor College

    13th December 2025 • Read more

  4. Dr Dee: From Mortlake to Manchester

    13th November 2025 • Read more

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  1. A painted manuscript illustration of a bearded man wearing a conical hat and loose robes

    John Dee and Alchemy

    When John Dee initially sought appointment as the warden of a collegiate church following his travels on the continent, Manchester was far from his mind. Instead, he had fixed his...

    29th January 2026 • Read more
  2. The corner of a sheet of sheet of paper containing a letter. A cursive hand has written ‘Your wurships sincere wellwisher in Christe’, and beneath it written ‘John Dee: Warden’.

    John Dee and the Tudor College

    At around midday on 15 February 1596, following an arduous journey by road and water, John Dee arrived in Tudor Manchester. Five days later, he was installed in a (presumably...

    13th December 2025 • Read more

  3. Dr Dee: From Mortlake to Manchester

    On 8 September 1597, the famed Renaissance polymath John Dee wrote to his friend, Sir Edward Dyer, to complain about the ‘tymes of very great dearth here … I can...

    13th November 2025 • Read more