The University of Manchester's John Rylands Library is known as much for its beautiful architecture as it is for its collection of rare books and manuscripts. The impressive Gothic structure took 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deansgate, the long street that runs up the west side of Manchester city centre, follows the line of a Roman road. Today, it is lined with tall commercial buildings interleaved with modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The plan aims to upgrade the library but retain its character A £7.6m plan to upgrade a Victorian library housing historic documents from around the world has been approved. Manchester City Council ...

A Manchester music charity has secured a £42,000 grant to open up the city’s archive of items from the private collection of Delia Derbyshire. The celebrated composer will be forever remembered as the ...

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 ...

A rarely-seen manuscript of one of the world's most important copies of the Koran is to be published online. The hand-written holy book, estimated to be around 500 years old, is so precious and ...