Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 100/2
Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824-2024
Edited by Stuart Jones
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 160
- Price: £35.00
- Published Date: December 2024
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The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia, have a global reach and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections.
Contents
Introduction: Higher Learning and Civic Cultures of Knowledge: Manchester 1824-2024 - H. S. Jones
'Not in the college but city': Networks of Higher Learning in Manchester before 1824 - Heather Ellis
Aftershocks of Peterloo: Manchester Mechanics' Institution and Mutual Improvement - Rachel Johnson
The Owens College Extension of 1870-3: Rethinking the Origins of the Civic University Tradition in England - H. S. Jones
Lancashire Trade, University Work: The University of Manchester and the Regional Economy, c. 1930-39 - Chris Godden
Servicing the State: Municipality and the Military Industrial Complex - Richard Brook
Forging the future with the white heat of the past? Legacies of 'the Tech', and the making of the Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1966-74 - Erin Beeston
Editor
H. S. Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester
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