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...
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Paper Heads and Forceps: Modelling Midwifery Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century
Dr Rebecca Whiteley is the Shreeve Fellow in the History of Medicine, John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the visual and material culture of pregnancy and midwifery in the nineteenth century. She is currently researching...
ECR Spotlight: Sarah Fox
Sarah Fox was a JRRI Early Career Research fellow during 2018/19. Here she talks about her time as a JRRI fellow and how it has helped to shape the direction of her research. My early career fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute was awarded to allow me to...
The Artist of the Future Age: What was Blake’s influence in counterculture?
'The Artist of the Future Age: William Blake, Neo-Romanticism, Counterculture and Now' was funded by a John Rylands Research Institute events grant and held in the John Rylands Library on 11 October 2019. In this post, student intern Francesca Bradley reflects on some...
Artist in Residence: Alicia Rouverol
Dr Alicia J. Rouverol was one of the JRRI's inaugural Artists in Residence from February-July 2019. Alicia drew upon the archives at the Ahmed Iqbel Ullah Race Relations Centre (a part of the University of Manchester Special Collections, but located in Manchester...
Unknown Cranach Work Discovered in the John Rylands Library
This post was originally published on The John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog.Issue 94.2 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, published by Manchester University Press, contains a very special article by Dr Ben Pope. Titled ‘The Empress, the Elector...
Collection spotlight: The Dave Cunliffe Archive
Bruce Wilkinson is the author of Hidden Culture, Forgotten History (Penniless Press, 2017), and Research Assistant on the JRRI-funded pilot project ‘The Dave Cunliffe Archive and the counterculture: The cultural impact of Poetmeat, Global Tapestry and the BB Books...
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...
Touching the past: Using letters and printed works to reconstruct literary communities and study the spread of ideas
Oscar Seip is a PhD student at the John Rylands Research Institute. In the below post, he talks about his research into 16th century literary networks....
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