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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2

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The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
  • 17 December 2024
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The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library’s special collections.
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Price: $51.95
Pages: 160
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 17 December 2024
ISBN: 9781526190338
Format: Paperback
BISACs: History of architecture, History of education
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H. S. Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester

Introduction: Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824–2024 – H. S. Jones
‘Not in the college but city’: Networks of Higher Learning in Manchester before 1824 – Heather Ellis
Aftershocks of Peterloo: Manchester Mechanics’ Institution and Mutual Improvement – Rachel Johnson
The Owens College Extension of 1870–3: Rethinking the Origins of the Civic University Tradition in England – H. S. Jones
Lancashire Trade, University Work: The University of Manchester and the Regional Economy, c. 1930–39 – Chris Godden
Servicing the State: Municipality and the Military Industrial Complex – Richard Brook
Forging the future with the white heat of the past? Legacies of ‘the Tech’, and the making of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1966–74 – Erin Beeston