Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Like almost anybody with a library named after them, John Rylands was a very ...

The John Rylands Library was founded by Enriqueta Rylands in memory of her husband John Rylands. The building opened to the public in 1900. The Library became part of The University of Manchester in ...

Digital agency Reading Room has been appointed to redesign the John Rylands University Library website. Housing more than four million books and manuscripts, The Manchester library is one of the ...

John Rylands was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who owned a large textile enterprise. After learning to weave he became a small-scale manufacturer of hand-looms, while also working in the draper's ...

A fragment of scroll from the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, under microspectral imagery. The University of Manchester, Author provided (no reuse) We really didn’t mean to find any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:The University of Manchester (The University of Manchester) When John Rylands Library opened its doors for the first time ...

The Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group at the University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute (GDI) is inviting the public to take part in an open and honest conversation about ...

Sixth issue and the tenth volume of the series of descriptive catalogues or guides to the collection of oriental and western manuscripts in the John Rylands Library.

The University of Manchester is celebrating a double success after the glittering MCR Awards held at the Hilton Hotel in the city centre. The John Rylands Library won Best Iconic Building while the ...