Rebecca Hurst writes poetry, essays and libretti. As artist in residence at the JRRI in 2019-20, Rebecca worked on the Elaine Feinstein archive (with a particular focus on the 2005 hybrid novel 'The Russian Jerusalem'), and drafted a new auto-fictive narrative poem...
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...
Dr Sonia Favi is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, who works on Tokugawa period (1603-1868) Japanese history. She is currently using primary sources such as administrative and commercial maps, travel guides, pictorial representations of travel (especially ukiyo-e...
Professor Andrew Morrison is Professor of Greek at The University of Manchester, and is co-director of The Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies, which was awarded a JRRI collaboration grant in 2019/20. The MCCS developed out of the Manchester Lives and...
Dr Stephen Gordon is currently a Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has researched widely on the relationship between medical and supernatural beliefs in the pre-modern world. Stephen’s blog post details part of his preliminary research for...
Drew Thomas was a JRRI Early Career Fellow from May-June 2019. Here he talks about his research into the counterfeit book trade:If you have ever visited the beautiful historic reading room at the John Rylands Library, you may have noticed the many statues carved into...
Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester - held a John Rylands Research Institute pilot grant, summer 2018. Where to begin when writing about John Ruskin? The great Victorian art critic and social reformer was both precise and cryptic,...
The Imaging team offer a suite of Advanced Imaging techniques to support innovative and multidisciplinary research with our Special Collections. Advanced Imaging supports researchers to interrogate the physical attributes and contents of our Special Collections, using...
Christopher Ohge (Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London) Part 1 A Definitive Object, a Solidity of Purpose "The plan appears to me very promising, and I hope, and that its success will further the amiable design of its...
Kate Gibson is a postdoctoral research assistant on the AHRC-funded project 'Faith in the Town: lay religion, urbanisation and industrialisation in England, 1740-1830'. In summer 2017, Kate undertook a three month Early Career Fellowship at the John Rylands Research...
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