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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recently refurbished John Rylands Library has been given a prestigious award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The RIBA success adds to the magnificent neo-gothic building's tally of ...

The so-called Rylands Library Papyrus P52 may be tiny in size but its archaeological significance cannot be overstated. Housed in the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, the fragment measures ...

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 Renaissance manuscript made for use in the Sistine Chapel has been reunited with six similar volumes to complete a rare collection in Manchester. Six parts of the 471-year-old Colonna Missal have ...

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 ...