Browse Special Collections Exhibitions

Online exhibitions created by the Library's Curatorial team, featuring items from Special Collections at the University of Manchester Library.

View of the Ferranti building.
UMIST’s Modernist Moment
Detail from a photograph showing Madeline Linford at the centre, along with her editorial colleagues from the Manchester Guardian.
Women who shaped Manchester
Carcanet logo with a black cat forming a 'C' shape on a tan background.
Carcanet
Medical metal syringe with wooden box and instructions.
Instruments of Change
Crop from Hebrew MS 6
The Many Faces of the Rylands’ Jewish Manuscripts
Qing - China's Multilingual Empire
Two historic mastheads from the Manchester Guardian in rows above each other.
Manchester’s Guardian: 200 years of the Guardian newspaper

Browse Research Exhibitions

Online exhibitions created by academics and researchers at the University of Manchester, featuring material from both the Library's Special Collections and from across the world.

Double page opening of frontispiece and title page of 'The Blessed'st Birth that euer was'. On the left there is a portrait of Henry Greenwood Preacher, with the title page on the right.
Extra-Illustrations and Annotated Illustrations in Early Modern Books
Three women's faces in profile, looking left.
Comics and Race in Latin America
Travels in Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868)