The John Rylands Library

Keeping you up to date with events and exhibitions that are taking place here at the Library - informing you about the history of this beautiful building - encouraging you to ask questions - sharing your great photos

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Deansgate, Manchester.

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Portrait of a Living Archive

  CHICC photographers Jamie and Gwen have an exhibition of portrait photography opening in the John Rylands Library this month. "When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as...

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Celebrating a Neo-Gothic Masterpiece

The John Rylands Library has been described as one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in Europe.  Built as a monument to her husband and as a gift to the people of Manchester, the cr...

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A Morbid Miscellany

Working at John Rylands Library and wandering through its wonderful Neo-Gothic architecture, it doesn't require much encouragement to engage the darker side of the imagination. I have lost count of...

Morbid Miscellany Exhibition -  14th October 2013 - 31rd Jan 2014

Bizarre bindings, delight in death, gaze in awe at antique autographs. 

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John Rylands Library by Richard Rowan 

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John Rylands Library by Richard Rowan

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statues-and-monuments Gothic architecture by David IFA 

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RAWR!!!!!!!!!!! on Flickr.

Taken from my recent trip to Manchester Museum

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We went to the museum and it was pretty cool, meet Stan

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Stretford Local Board Acknowledgement of Mrs Rylands

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Hamlet. Act I. Scene IV. A platform before the Castle of Elsineur. Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost created by Boydell, John, 1719-1804

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The Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) digitising Rylands Latin MS 113, a Chronicle Roll from 1484. Based in The John Rylands Library, part of the University of Manchester, CHICC specialise in digitisation and collection care of all manner of heritage material, for external customers as well as the library's own incredible collections. More information at manchester.ac.uk/library/chicc

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Map: Cheshire. Showing roads and Borough towns (with the number of members they send to Parliament represented by stars), market towns, crossroads. Cheshire coat of arms top right. Decorative cartouch bottom left: 'Cheshire drawn from the best Surveys maps and charts and regulated by Astronl. Observants. By T. Kitchin Geog.r.'. Simple compass rose bottom right. Latitude and 'Longitude West from London' are displayed around the edge.

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Inkstand, quills & paperknife of Elizabeth Gaskell, miniature of Gaskell by W.J. Thomson. Letters from Gaskell to Barbara Fergusson dated 1846 & 1847.

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Painted scenes depicting life at a Burmese court. An elephant hunt.

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Verses from Night the Third.

Illustration: the author supporting a female figure, and presenting her to the sun; whose aid he seems to solicit, and whose chariot is seen above, surrounded by and in some measure obscured by clouds. The artist refers to the circumstance alluded to in the poem, of the author's having attended his step daughter (Narcissa) who was languishing in a decline, to a more southern climate. The engraving has been hand coloured by William Blake.