The John Rylands Library

  CHICC photographers Jamie and Gwen have an exhibition of portrait photography opening in the John Rylands Library this month. "When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as...

The John Rylands Library has been described as one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in Europe.  Built as a monument to her husband and as a gift to the people of Manchester, the cr...

Bizarre bindings, delight in death, gaze in awe at antique autographs. 

Stretford Local Board Acknowledgement of Mrs Rylands

Hamlet. Act I. Scene IV. A platform before the Castle of Elsineur. Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost created by Boydell, John, 1719-1804

The Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) digitising Rylands Latin MS 113, a Chronicle Roll from 1484. Based in The John Rylands Library, part of the University of Manchester, CHICC specialise in digitisation and collection care of all manner of heritage material, for external customers as well as the library's own incredible collections. More information at manchester.ac.uk/library/chicc

Map: Cheshire. Showing roads and Borough towns (with the number of members they send to Parliament represented by stars), market towns, crossroads. Cheshire coat of arms top right. Decorative cartouch bottom left: 'Cheshire drawn from the best Surveys maps and charts and regulated by Astronl. Observants. By T. Kitchin Geog.r.'. Simple compass rose bottom right. Latitude and 'Longitude West from London' are displayed around the edge.

Inkstand, quills & paperknife of Elizabeth Gaskell, miniature of Gaskell by W.J. Thomson. Letters from Gaskell to Barbara Fergusson dated 1846 & 1847.

Painted scenes depicting life at a Burmese court. An elephant hunt.

Illustration: the author supporting a female figure, and presenting her to the sun; whose aid he seems to solicit, and whose chariot is seen above, surrounded by and in some measure obscured by clouds. The artist refers to the circumstance alluded to in the poem, of the author's having attended his step daughter (Narcissa) who was languishing in a decline, to a more southern climate. The engraving has been hand coloured by William Blake.