Day 7/7 of #mylifeinpictures. Rules: no words, no people. Nominated by clare baker💙 nominating Annie Anderton today if she would like to join.🥳 Le Petit Prince Officiel

Our amazingly talented Imaging Team have been creatively reinterpreting our #SpecialCollections for a series of fascinating new blog posts. Meet the team and find out where they have taken inspiration from in the first of our #IsolatedView series rylandscollections.com/2020/04/29/ima…

Want to learn more about the work of our fabulous imaging team at JRRI? Lisa's blog is an insight into issues of damage, aesthetics and the role of the photographer in digitising the Hamilton Archive! You can read it here: rylandscollections.com/2020/05/01/ima…

As always, images taken in a time of social upheaval (and their captions!) are open to interpretation. This "Charming Canadian Landworker" features in the fascinating "Women in Wartime" album now available in UoM Library's Digital Collections - man.ac.uk/F3Agy4

Delighted to see The Bow in the Cloud launch on Manchester Digital Collections. First of our collections to carry an accurate content warning. Here's to many more! UoM Library John Rylands Research Institute and Library digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/bo…

Excellent read and great images! More than words: Medieval Storytelling rylandscollections.com/2020/09/22/mor… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Medieval Storytelling: Ave Marina rylandscollections.com/2020/09/22/med… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Quite like the sound of St Margaret!🐲Medieval Storytelling: From Golden Pages to the Golden Legend rylandscollections.com/2020/09/22/med… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Acrobatic nuns? (No nun emoji?!) What's not to like about this? Medieval Storytelling: Beyond the Borders rylandscollections.com/2020/09/22/med… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Just acquired a set of these brilliant prints John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Picture This! The University Photographic Collection rylandscollections.com/2020/10/05/pic… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Staff John Rylands Research Institute and Library go the extra mile to promote our collections, even sporting tattoos of images from manuscripts. Great blog by Jamie Robinson: New Digital Collection; Magic, Monsters and Macabre. rylandscollections.com/2020/10/31/new… via John Rylands Research Institute and Library

The latest post in the Rylands Reflects blog series is up, I wrote about content warnings, and why they're so important. rylandscollections.com/2020/11/05/ryl… John Rylands Research Institute and Library @UoMSpecColl

We've launched a public appeal for help in tracking down two missing notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin - one of which includes his iconic Tree of Life sketch. We are heartbroken by the loss. Can you help? Find out more here: cam.ac.uk/stories/Darwin… #TreeOfLife #DarwinAppeal

Our wonderful technician John Piprani has written a brilliant post about Lockdown, photogrammetry and teaching collections! clahresearch.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/loc…

@TonyFourtoes has found this wonderful newsreel clip of Henry Guppy, Librarian John Rylands Research Institute and Library, discussing the famous #papyrus fragment of John's Gospel (P52), in 1935: youtube.com/watch?v=MRhk5C….

A quick blog about our new Elizabeth Gaskell & Charles Dickens digital collection on our shiny image viewer! Manchester Digital Collections: rylandscollections.com/2021/02/08/pla… @UoMSpecColl John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Today we're joining in with ARA Scotland #Archives30 and sharing a video of our curator Annie Anderton discussing her #FavouriteItem: Li Yuan-chia’s 'Rose Tinted Glasses, VFA.6'. Discover what makes them so special and learn about Li's lasting impact and legacy: youtu.be/7KswgN2zztA

Journey through Japan in our new online exhibition. Curated by Sonia Faviana , the exhibition features maps and travel guides from the Tokugawa (1603-1868) period from our Japanese maps collection. Start your trip to Japan here: ow.ly/Qsq050GmM3C