At the beginning of September, following the restarting of the Ancient Letters Collection project at Manchester, the department hosted a two-day conference on ancient Philosophical Letters. The full programme can be found here. The conference featured scholars with a...
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The fragmented mind: Musgrave Kinley outsider art works on tour at the MAC, Belfast
A post via our colleagues at the Whitworth about an exhibition that includes Lindsay Seers' fascinating The Letter Paintings. You can read more about Seers' Letter Paintings on the artist's website Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161...
Letterlocking workshop – 14 June – The John Rylands Library – places available
This is a practical workshop, led by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith that explores the historical practice of letterlocking. They explain:Letterlocking refers to the technology of folding and securing an epistolary writing substrate to function as its own...
Event report: Digital approaches to text editing – 15 May 2018
Our second workshop of this semester recently took place in partnership with DH@Manchester, as part of Digital Humanities Week (the original date for this workshop was in March but snow necessitated rescheduling).The afternoon workshop showcased three areas of digital...
Rescheduled: Digital Humanities approaches to text editing, 15 May 2018
This workshop was originally due to take place on 2 March, but was rescheduled due to inclement weather. The programme and venue remain the same. If you had signed up to the previous 2 March date, and have already been in touch to confirm you can attend on 15 May,...
The Victor Hugo Papers
Victor Hugo, French novelist and dramatist and author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, was born on this day in 1802. We look back at a 2015 blog post on the John Rylands Library's Special Collections Blog which describes the The Victor Hugo Papers....
Davis to Beddoe: ‘could you assist me in procuring crania?’
The Lives of Letters blog welcomes a guest post from Johanna Parker (Australian National University), relating to the medical correspondence of 19th century medical practitioner and collector J. B. Davis. The majority of my research is focused on analysing...
A letter from Luther
Commend me to your prayers - a blog post by Juliane Simpson from the John Rylands Special Collections blog on a letter from Martin Luther that appears in the library's current Reformation exhibition Related Contact Us +44 (0)...
Digital Humanities approaches to text editing, 2 March 2018
Our second of two workshops this semester is now open for registration via our Google form. This workshop will engage participants in a discussion about the future of Digital Humanities approaches to creating and displaying text editions. Three papers will explore...
Curious find – love letters
One for Valentine’s Day from the archives of the Rylands Special Collections Blog Curious Find - Love LettersToday's Curious Find is a book of real letters that reveal the love story between a man and woman, and told in the lovers' own words. The letters are...
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