"These women committed their lives to nursing, often doing hard and dirty work ... all the while separated from their loved ones and enduring racism and discrimination – and the NHS is all the better off for it" - a brilliant AIU RACE Centre blog 🩺🏥

50 Jewish Objects | The second blogpost by artist Leo Mercer has now been published. Leo is creating poems inspired by the 50 Jewish Objects project from @stefbooks and John Rylands Research Institute and Library. buff.ly/2ODq83u (via Mcr Jewish Studies)

In Episode 7 of The Rylands Brief, archivist Jessica Smith talks to John Mcauliffe about her work John Rylands Research Institute and Library, picking out key items which made their way into the Carcanet exhibition & reading a poem by Carcanet Press poet, Matthew Welton 🎧 ow.ly/Pikp50AG3p6 UoM Library

The new @UoMSpecColl account is now air-borne! 👇 Follow to explore rare books, maps, manuscripts and visual collections John Rylands Research Institute and Library and UoM Library, with a focus on research and teaching. Petrarch, #histmed and #southasianheritagemonth coming up this week 🥳

🎺Great #histmed launch this week🎺: "A rich resource for medical humanities research and teaching, and for anyone interested in the history of human bodies and how our ideas of health and disease have changed over time." Blog post here: tinyurl.com/y334xpuf

Wonderful JRRI blog exploring annotations in @UoMSpecColl Methodist print collections: "Whilst spoken words fly past, and can thus pass as acceptable, printed words can be placed under more scrutiny." Methodist Heritage Museum of Methodism Manchester R&T

A big hello👋after a hiatus from the #ManMedProject account. I've been away from the collections since wfh but there's been plenty of #histmed things afoot, not least the launch of a new digital collection last week! Read on for an update 👇 x.com/UoMSpecColl/st…

This looks fabulous for those interested in teaching #histmed using the amazing collections of UoM Medical Museum 🩺🧠

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Paul expectant whilst bob mortimer faffs around with a tree. Relaxed #Gonefishing vibes from this c17th 'Booke of fishing with hooke and line', catalogued in TEI last week for a forthcoming digital teaching resource. Online for all your 🐟 needs here: luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/servlet/d…

Looking forward to exploring the #BookbindingModels our brilliant Conservation team having been constructing for use in teaching with @UoMSpecColl - posts throughout the week!

Hello @UoMSpecColl - for #AskAConservatorDay it'd be great to know what attracted you to the profession and what advice you have for people starting out. Thanks!

Here's an exciting job opportunity with Methodist Heritage, linking closely with the collections held John Rylands Research Institute and Library @UoMSpecColl methodist.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/20…

Excited to see @GaskellsHouse and John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Britain's Most Historic Towns! I got to take one of our letters by Charles Dickens to the house that Elizabeth Gaskell would have read it in. Tune in on Sat! Prof Alice Roberts💙 IWC Media @UoMSpecColl we.tl/t-HJjLZDZdQq

A lot of fun to have written this very whistle-stop history of 'Hark! the Herald Angels Sing' - despite having the tune in my head now for a good month... And many thanks to The Methodist Church for hosting it on their excellent blog 🎄👼

A great lunchtime talk for all visual culture enthusiasts - explore our new 'Photographic Jewellery' digital collection 📷 👉 Eventbrite: ow.ly/VQSz50E9CxQ 👉 Digital collection: tinyurl.com/3n3ch7at

Reading the past: Guyda Armstrong unveils a new digital collection exploring historic manuscripts and editions of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy #Dante #Dante700 #Dante2021 ow.ly/CRpP50EdrnK Visit ow.ly/UxjH50EdrC0 to access the collection.

Ottoman Book Culture: a new digital collection launches today as part of our 'Papyrus to Print' teaching resource. Explore 16 astonishing manuscripts from the 12th to 19th centuries, from religious texts to Sufi poetry. digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/pa…

The Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers digital edition has officially launched on Manchester Digital Collections! Explore the social networks of Georgian England through the papers of courtier, diarist and Bluestocking Mary Hamilton (1756-1816) (1/2) digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/ma…

Very interesting day of prelim workshops at the #IIIF conference Unina Federico II in beautiful Naples: 1) Crowdsourcing projects using Madoc with lessons from GhentCDH 2) 3D and IIIF - exploring interoperability for 3D data Lots of notes! (and pastries...)