Whether you’re a bookworm or you just love beautiful buildings, there’s something special about libraries. The UK is home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carcanet Press has relocated from its headquarters in Cross Street, central Manchester, to the University of Manchester library in Oxford Road. Carcanet had previously spent 22 years in its old ...

How did Manchester kick-start ‘Railway Mania’ in the Industrial Age? What is Manchester’s Water Palace? What is so curious about the architecture of the John Rylands and Chetham’s Libraries? Why is a ...

Manchester council is offering a time-limited amnesty for overdue books that have been out on loan during the Covid-19 pandemic. Fines are being waived until the end of May to allow libraries across ...