In 2005, we asked you, the public, to nominate your favourite pre-1900 structure for a BBC programme, Seven Man-made Wonders of the North West, being shown on Sunday 12 February 2006. When Karen ...

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 project, one of the lead priority areas in the Library’s Imagine2030 vision, is intended to prepare the Rylands for the challenges and opportunities of the mid-21st century. When complete, the ...

ISLAMABAD: If you’re walking down Deansgate, the main road running through Manchester City Center, and spot an old Victorian building labelled ‘John Rylands Library,’ just know that you have stumbled ...

John Rylands Library, on Deansgate, was founded by Enriqueta Rylands in memory of her husband John. It was designed by architect Basil Champneys in 1889, who had impressed Mrs Rylands with his work on ...

1 October 1924: Celebrations mark the 25th anniversary of the Rylands, a library ranked alongside the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Vatican Within almost a stone’s throw of the Manchester Royal ...

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 ...

The John Rylands Research Institute and the University’s iconic John Rylands Library are forging an exciting new partnership as the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. The renaming signals ...

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 ...