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New blog alert! 🔔 A flock of doodled chickens in a 16th-century Bible offers a surprisingly personal glimpse into life in early modern England 🐔 This blog explores how readers’ marks turn books into windows onto the past💡
🔗Read more on our blog: library.chethams.com/blog/births-...
The Afterlives of John Dee's Books ✨ Five surviving volumes from the library of John Dee, once part of the largest private collection in Elizabethan England, are now held at Chetham’s Library.
Discover the afterlives of John Dee's books in our blog ➡️ library.chethams.com/blog/the-aft...
#WorldBookDay is this week on 5 March! 📚 To celebrate we asked our Library team what their favourite books in the collection are, and the answers were very varied 😲
Let us know your favourite books in our collection in the replies ⬇️
New blog alert! 📣 'Thomas de la Warre’s Trans-Atlantic Manuscript.' This remarkable story traces one of medieval Manchester’s earliest books from its origins with Thomas de la Warre to its home today at the The Huntington Library.
🔗Read more on our blog: library.chethams.com/blog/thomas-...
We have an exciting free talk coming up next week in partnership with Gorton Library 📣
Join Claire Robinson for a whistlestop history of Belle Vue and see items from our Belle Vue archive! 🎡🎪
📆 Gorton Library, 4 March, 5:30pm
🎟️ Book tickets here: library.chethams.com/whats-on/historycomesalive
📚 Lost, Found… and stuffed up a chimney?!
In the 1800s, Librarian John Taylor Allen made an astonishing discovery: Humphrey Chetham’s private papers, hidden up his chimney and nearly lost forever.
🔍 Discover our new exhibition on our blog: library.chethams.com/blog/lost-and-found-in-the-library
New blog alert! 🔔 William Harrison Ainsworth imagined a dramatic story set in the very Library he knew as a teenager.
👉 Our latest blog explores how Ainsworth blended Manchester history with Gothic imagination, turning Chetham's Library into a magical setting 🔮
🔗 Read here: tinyurl.com/2fzeapvj
Muslims in the Medieval European Imagination with Saaleha Iqbal 📚 A free talk on how Europeans perceived and depicted Muslims in texts from the 12th century.
📆 12 June, 6pm🔗 Book here: library.chethams.com/whats-on/muslims-in-the-medieval-european-imagination-with-saaleha-iqbal/
New blog alert! 📣 What secrets lie hidden in the rafters of our medieval building? 😲 Our latest blog uncovers the eerie discovery of a mummified cat found at Chetham’s, and explores why it may be hidden there in the first place.
🔗 Read more: library.chethams.com/blog/the-mum...
Clayton Hall is closely tied to Humphrey Chetham, one of the most important figures in Manchester’s history. His legacy through @chethamslibrary.bsky.social and Chetham's School would go on to shape the city in lasting ways.
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Readers are advised that this post contains a photograph of a mummified cat and rat which they may find distressing. Over the years, the medieval buildi...
