Chapbooks in Manchester Libraries
Several chapbooks from the collections of Chetham's Library and Manchester City Libraries are now available as pdfs. Read more...
The Yattendon Hymnal
We are delighted to announce that we have recently acquired a copy of the Yattendon Hymnal! Read more...
The Robert Holt Collection of Manchester Street Songs and Ballads
We have recently bought a large collection of street songs and ballads published in Manchester and the North West during the mid-nineteenth century. Read more...
Collaborative Doctorate Awarded
Joel Swann been awarded a PhD for his work on seventeenth-century prose and verse miscellanies at the Library. Read more...
Conservation Grants
We are delighted to announce that the Library has recently been awarded two significant grants, which will enable the preservation of some of our most important and valuable books. Read more...
Industrial Archaeology
In recent years the Library has acquired a number of important collections on the industrial archaeology of the region. Read more...
Hollingworth's Mancuniensis now free to view online!
The earliest history of Manchester has now been fully digitised and is available to view online, along with the minute book of the Manchester Association for Preserving Constitutional Order against Levellers and Republicans, and two other nineteenth-century works on Manchester and Liverpool. Read more...
Online exhibition now live!
Our very popular exhibition about the Leech family of Manchester and Ashton is now online! Read more...
Chetham's Library awarded MLA Designation Status
We are proud to announce that Chetham's has been officially awarded Designation Status by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. Read more...
Brill! It's a new book about Chetham's Library
Matthew Yeo's new book has just been published as part of Brill's Library of the Written Word series. Read all about it on the News page...
Online film about Chetham's Library
A new ten-minute video by film-maker Gareth Taylor is now available to view online at Vimeo. In it, you can learn more about the history of the Library and see parts of the medieval buildings not normally open to the public.
Raines Lancashire Manuscripts now available on DVD
The forty-five volumes of transcripts and original material compiled by Canon F. R. Raines represent the largest collection of antiquarian papers held at Chetham's. We are very pleased to announce that these are now available to buy on a beautiful new DVD produced by the Family History Society of Cheshire. Read more...
Chetham's Treasures Digitised
We are delighted to announce that a number of our eighteenth century periodicals and six Middle English manuscripts have been digitised and made available online. Read more...