Curator spotlight: Julie Ramwell
Julie Ramwell is a Special Collections Library with curatorial responsibility for post-1500 English printed collections, including English literature, private press and street literature, and French literature. Here she talks about some items of note from the street...
JRRI-Lilly Library exchange fellow: Emerson Richards
Emerson Richards is a doctoral candidate at Indiana University Bloomington in the department of Comparative Literature and the Institute for Medieval Studies. Between September and December 2017, Emerson was the JRRI-Lilly Library visiting research fellow. Here, she...
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...
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....
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,...
Early Career Research Fellow: Elizabeth Spencer
Lizzy Spencer is an Early Career Researcher, who works on material culture, consumption and gender in the long 18th century. Between April and July 2018, Lizzy held an Early Career Fellowship at the John Rylands Research Institute, and her project was focused on women...
Welcome to our new researchers!
This month, as we welcome in autumn and the new academic year, we are also very happy to welcome several new colleagues to the JRRI:Rebecca Whiteley joins us from University College London, where she recently completed her PhD thesis on Early Modern depictions of...
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