Next week marks 200 years since the Guardian was first published in Manchester. Stay tuned next week as we celebrate the paper's connection to the city.
📆 Join our lunchtime Instagram Live on Wednesday 5 May and explore stories from Guardian archives held here at the Rylands.
❓❓Want to find out about Friedrich Engels & his connection to Manchester - and why his statue in the city's First Street has caused controversy? ❓❓
👀 Check out our latest blogpost, by MA student Gemma, on the stories behind Manchester's statues:
https://t.co/BPO3vYzSUE
Mega stoked to have been asked by the wonderful folks at @levymarket to curate the soundtrack for this weekends market!
Featuring bangers from our own roster and @MelodicEULabels
Check it here: https://t.co/MYYm7EI0CJ
On Monday 10th May, we will be taking part in the city-wide ‘Drop everything and read’ organised by the #ReadMCR campaign. Why not do 10 minutes of family reading at home too that evening? Put the date in your diaries! #Take10toRead@MancLibraries@Literacy_Trust
A painter of ferocious passion though her life was tragically cut short. Joan Eardley was tenacious during the mid 20th century. This work pushes to abstraction which was becoming popular at the time. Here is Tinker's Tents. #LesbianVisibilityWeek#LVW21 https://t.co/eoPRWzQerW
On this day in 1848, Portico Library member Thomas Jarrold borrowed these editions of Anna Brownwell Jameson’s ‘Sacred and Legendary Art’, full of the striking and dramatic imagery of Christian theology and European mythology.
Did you know that we have the world's largest collection of manuscripts relating to the founders of Methodism? The Methodist Archives has approximately 5,000 letters, notebooks and other papers and regularly requested by readers. https://t.co/HDkUsbJMLN #somethingbig#archive30
You are cordially invited to celebrate Polish Heritage Days on 3-5 May 2021 with a free screening of the film "In Search of Chopin".
Please register in advance.
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📢 Call Out
We’re looking for musicians & performers to take centre stage at #FestivalSquare for #MIF21. Whether you're a spoken word artist, in brass band or a DJ we want to hear from you – help bring back those festival smiles 😁
Apply now: https://t.co/Z0BPzCyMIM
We're back this Saturday with another great market lined up for you this bank holiday weekend, full of fun, fresh air and friendly faces.
You’ll also find a TON of kid-friendly items this weekend including some personalised prints made while you wait.
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This Wednesday, join former Portico librarian Emma Marigliano to discuss these striking illustrations by Gustave Doré. The drama that the French artist brought to Dante’s Inferno has arguably never been surpassed. Tickets and full details here: https://t.co/3YrSsGWayd