We're holding our next event this academic year on 13 April 2022, from 1.45pm at the John Rylands Research Institute & Library on Deansgate. Join us for an academic led symposium to explore authentication and forgery in classical, biblical and patristic letters...
Please join us for our second seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion. All welcome!Wednesday 6th March 2019, 3pm - 4.30pmA112 Samuel Alexander BuildingEthical challenges in early twentieth century Samaritan manuscript...
9 May 2019, The John Rylands Library, Manchester, 6pm-7.30pm.(with a collection encounter and reception from 5pm).Save the date! There are still many more Lives of Letters events this year ahead of us, but we are delighted to already announce a letter-themed poetry...
Please join us for our first seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion. All welcome!Thursday, 31 January 2019, 5pm - 6.30pmChristie Room, The John Rylands Library'Love letters and erotic letter: Antiquity and beyond' Dr Owen...
Thomas Carlyle was born on this day in 1795. Here's a story from the archives of the John Rylands Library Special Collections Blog by Fran Baker about reuniting a letter and envelope from Carlyle. We recently made a very small but slightly unusual archival...
We are delighted to announce our first skills training workshop this year:The Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents (READ) project aims to make archival material more accessible by training computers to read handwritten historical manuscripts. Join Dr...
We are pleased to share our very own playlist of songs about letters on Spotify.The playlist was crowdsourced on Twitter, with songs proposed by @studentfriendsw @kswilkinson1 @rjsleven @NoahMoxham @gordontoon @alicemarples @scadhu @OscarSeip @katharinakeim...
Please join us for our second seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion.Wednesday 5 December, 3pm - 4.30pm Samuel Alexander Building (University of Manchester, Oxford Road Campus), A202Lucy Burns (English, American Studies, and...
One hundred years ago today, on 11 November 1918, guns on the Western Front and other theatres of war fell silent. Fighting continued right up to the agreed ceasefire at 11.00 GMT, and it is estimated that over 10,000 men were killed, wounded or went missing on the...
We are delighted to announce our first seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty minute papers and discussion. 8 November 2018, 5pm - 6.30pm, The Christie Room, The John Rylands Library Dr Luke Uglow (Art History, Manchester): 'Drawing letters: Ruskin at the...
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