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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Forgotten Library: Enriqueta Rylands and her books (20 May – 31 October 2026) explores the books Enriqueta Rylands kept at her Manchester home, Longford Hall, and the volumes she chose to give to ...

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 ...

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 ...