You can also 
subscribe to our RSS News Feed and always have our up-to-date news to hand. Please review the 'How to Subscribe to our RSS News' at the bottom of this page after all the news items.
-
Purchase of Colonna Missal volume
Category: News Posted by: Barry
With assistance from the Friends, the library was able to purchase the missing volume of the Colonna Missal - one of the most important liturgical manuscripts of the sixteenth century.More...
-
Delia Derbyshire Papers
Category: News Posted by: Barry
Delia Derbyshire was involved in several of the earliest electronic music events in England, including the shows at the Watermill Theatre, Near Newbury, the Chalk Farm Roundhouse (with Paul McCartney), The Royal Festival Hall and the first electronic music fashion show. The Friends contributed £1000 to enable the Library to purchase important papers early in 2011.
More...
-
Friends Website Re-Launched
Category: News Posted by: Russ
We are please to announce that the Friends of the John Rylands ( FotJR ) Website has been re-launched. So as of the 28th July 2008 we now have a beautiful new website with a number of exciting new features...
More...
-
Elaine Feinstein Archive
Category: News Posted by: Russ
Thanks to our members' generosity the trustees have been able to make a grant of £3000 - our largest yet - towards the purchase by the John Rylands University Library of the Elaine Feinstein archive.
More...
-
Gissing Purchase
Category: News Posted by: Russ
The Friends have awarded £1000 towards the purchase of the papers of the Victorian novelist George Gissing (1857-1903).
More...
-
Cow Parade
Category: News Posted by: Russ
Friends of the John Rylands are please to sponsor a single cow for the CowParade Manchester.More...
-
First AGM
Category: News Posted by: Russ
The first Friends' event an AGM, was held on Thursday 29th April where the Friends' Committee was formed.More...
-
Friends of the John Rylands launched
Category: News Posted by: Russ
Friends of the John Rylands was launched on Monday 2nd February by Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council.More...
-
Friends Win Influence
Category: News Posted by: Russ
The world-renowned John Rylands University Library is to launch the Friends of the John Rylands.
More...
How to Subscribe to our RSS News Feed
This general news section is also available as an RSS feed. If your browser supports it, click on the RSS icon in your browsers 'URL' bar (where this pages URL is shown,) and follow the instructions. This will provide an automatically updating set of links to our news stories. If you cannot see the RSS icon in your URL bar then use the link below:
Subscribe to our RSS News Feed