Date: 19 January 2012 18:15 to 19:30
Dr Jo Langham-Brown gives a feminist history of Winston Churchill's wife.
Date: 15 December 2011 18:00 to 21:00
A talk on the Colonna Missal in the Library followed by music and food.
Date: 17 November 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Professor Christine Hallett talks about the suffering in the Great War.
Date: 17 November 2011 17:45 to 18:15
All Friends are invited to the Annual General Meeting
Date: 20 October 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Dr Jerome de Groot talks about the education of women
Date: 15 September 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Caroline Checkley-Scott talks about preservation of Christian texts
Date: 12 May 2011 11:00 to 18:00
An event commemorating the Anniversary of the King James Bible
Date: 7 April 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Peter Newton talks about Beautiful blooms: how growers have produced tulips galore
Date: 10 March 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Mara Patessio talks about Japanese history and culture through the Rylands' collections
Date: 17 February 2011 18:15 to 19:30
John Lawrence talks about a life in illustration: from Mr Pooter to Long John Silver
Date: 20 January 2011 18:15 to 19:30
Joanne Verran talks about Microbiology and Art
Date: 2 December 2010 18:30 to 21:30
A Festive Evening at Chetham's
Date: 15 November 2010 18:15 to 19:30
AGM followed by Ian Rogerson on Book Illustration: the search for affordable colour
Date: 21 October 2010 18:15 to 19:30
Charlie Hulme talks about John Cassidy - preceded by a guided walk
Date: 9 September 2010 18:15 to 19:30
Michael Schmidt talks about the Carcanet Press and the John Rylands Archive
Date: 25 July 2010 12:00 to 16:00
A Summer Afternoon at Jodrell Bank
Date: 16 May 2010 10:30 to 12:00
A Literary Walk Around Manchester - Kate Dibble leads a 90 minute morning walk, starting at John Rylands Library Deansgate.
Date: 15 April 2010 18:15 to 19:30
Samuel Johnson's 'The Vanity of Human Wishes': Juvenal, Johnson and the modern reader - Bill Hutchings commemorates Johnson's tercentenary.
Date: 4 March 2010 18:15 to 19:30
Stephen Milner talks about nineteenth century interest in Dante.
Date: 11 February 2010 18:15 to 19:30
Bridging the Information Gap for health Libraries in Africa and South-East Asia - Steven Glover (Christie Hospital) talks about his experiences.
Date: 5 December 2009 12:00 to 18:00
An afternoon event - details to be confirmed.
Date: 12 November 2009 17:45 to 19:30
Simon Lawrence celebrates 30 years of running the Fleece Press. Note the MMU venue.
Date: 29 October 2009 18:15 to 19:30
Putting the the Rylands' Middle English manuscripts on line - an explanation by Carol Burrows. The meeting is preceded by the AGM.
Date: 10 September 2009 18:15 to 19:30
Urban stories of the mapping of Manchester by Chris Perkins.
Date: 19 May 2009 18:15 to 19:30
The John Rylands Library's stained glass with David O'Connor
Date: 21 April 2009 18:15 to 19:30
Manchester's part in their discovery with Professor George Brooke
Date: 18 March 2009 18:15 to 19:30
With Nicholas Barker
Date: 15 February 2009 10:30 to 14:30
The building stones of Manchester
Date: 11 February 2009 18:15 to 19:30
Building stones - with special reference to the John Rylands Library with Dr Fred Broadhurst
Date: 21 January 2009 18:15 to 19:30
Illustrations to Edward Young's Night Thoughts with Grevel Lindop
Date: 19 November 2008 18:15 to 20:00
AGM followed by The Stanbrook Abbey Press Archive with John Hodgson
Date: 6 October 2008 18:15 to 19:30
Medicines used in the 1820s with Dr Craig Thornber
Date: 3 September 2008 14:00 to 17:00
Visit the Special Collections with Professor Ian Rogerson, a former Librarian.
Date: 20 May 2008
The Alderley Edge Landscape Project
Date: 16 April 2008
Early bookbinders at work , their roles and methods.
Date: 10 March 2008
'Hung out to Dry': the story of a book from genesis to completion.
Date: 12 February 2008
Norman Nicholson - Poet in his centenary year
Date: 16 January 2008
Alan Shelston - Dickens and his illustrators
Date: 27 November 2007
A.G.M. and then David Blamires Swiss Family Robinson
Date: 18 October 2007
Friends re-launch details to be arranged
Date: 10 September 2007
Gareth Lloyd - Title to be decided
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