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 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 ...

Often compared to Hogwarts school in the Harry Potter novels, the John Rylands Library frequently elicits a whisper of "wow" when visitors step in from the bustle of Manchester city centre. The shrine ...

The John Rylands Library, part of The University of Manchester Library, has been awarded the FX Award for Museum or Exhibition Space 2025, triumphing in a highly competitive international category.

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 ...

Anyone who has walked down Deansgate has passed by the imposing neo-gothic building that looms over the street. The John Rylands Library is hard to miss. With its flying buttresses and gothic arches ...

When John Rylands Library opened its doors for the first time on January 1, 1900 - after ten years of construction - it featured a vast collection of more than 70,000 books and manuscripts - including ...

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 ...

A new chaotic poem about love, created by Twitter followers, is on display from tomorrow (Friday 13 February) at The John Rylands Library in central Manchester. This Is (Not) A Love Poem is the result ...

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 ...