Norman Identity in Capetian France (1204-c.1337): The Chronique de Normandie and Établissements de Rouen PhD researcher, Alexander Hurlow, discusses the Rylands' copy of the 'Chronique de Normandie', and how his JRRI funded MA helped to lay the groundwork for his...
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Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
The University of Manchester Library has recently acquired a body of work by the Manchester photographer Mark Warner (1960-2001). Mark was formerly the Head of Photography at Manchester College of Art and a photographer of great virtuosity and technical skill. Born in...
Early Career Research Fellow: Michael Smith
Michael Smith is an Early Career Researcher who works on the history of emotions and religious culture in the early modern period. During summer 2018, Michael held an Early Career Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute, and his project was focused on...
Project spotlight: Heinrich Simon, Prussian Double-Agent
Stephen Parker and Matthew Jeffries (German) were recently been awarded a Leverhulme Project Grant for their project 'Double Agent: Heinrich Simon's Constitutional Mission in Neo-Absolutist Prussia'. The three-year project, which began life as a small seed-corn...
Project spotlight: Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network
Naomi Billingsley is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute. In 2017, she and her colleagues set up the Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network using a JRRI Collaboration Grant. Here she talks about the network, its successes so far,...
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