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Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

Bus Stop Stories

20 February - 22 June 2014
At the start of 2013, John Shinnick, a Manchester photographer, set out to document the people using a local, city centre bus stop; a quiet stop were people rarely alight. The people…

Connecting Communities and Coral - Wonder Women

13:00 - 16:00 8 March 2014
Connecting Communities and Coral - Wonder Women & Women in Art, Event at the Manchester Museum Saturday 8 March 2014 1-4pm Celebrate International Women’s Day at the Manchester Museum,…

Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Girls Night Out - under the stars!

19:00 - 22:00 8 March 2014
We’re looking for all the budding Astronettes, Star-lettes and Cosmic Girls to come and join us for our ‘Girls Night Out (under the stars) event at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre on…

Internation Women's Day

14:00 - 14:30 8 March 2014
To mark IWD, meet the indomitable Enriqueta Rylands, the inspiring woman who battled to build the library as a memorial to her late husband.

International Women's Day

11:00 - 11:30 8 March 2014
To mark IWD, meet the indomitable Enriqueta Rylands, the inspiring woman who battled to build the Library as a memorial to her late husband.

MUMS Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 8 March 2014
Webern Im Sommerwind Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 (Soloist: Tom Hicks) MUMS Symphony Orchestra return to perform some of the most…

Suffragette Legacy; How does the History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester?

8 March 2014
Call for Papers From The Village and David Bowie’s Suffragette City to Femen activists and Pussy Riot, the suffragette legacy is everywhere in modern culture. As part of the Manchester…

The Space Between: exhibition of artworks by Anthony McCarthy

27 February - 3 August 2014
The concept for the exhibition began as artist, Anthony McCarthy, walked along Chapel Street in Salford heading towards Manchester and The John Rylands Library. Armed with pencil,…

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with Mark Billingham and Val McDermid

18:30 - 20:30 10 March 2014
Professor of Creative Writing Jeanette Winterson will be joined in conversation by crime novelists Mark Billingham and Val McDermid. Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham.…

Origin and early evolution of land plants

15:00 - 16:00 10 March 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

RNCM Monday Recital Series

13:15 - 14:00 10 March 2014
Leigh Howard Stevens Rhythmic Caprice for marimba Compagnie Kahlua Ceci n’est pas une balle Delia Stevens percussion Chick Corea (arr Jackson) Children's Songs…

Aftermath: Knit and Natter

14:00 - 16:00 11 March 2014
What better way to enjoy that creative wartime spirit than to join others in a sociable knitting session?

Star Lecture 'The Ethics of Organ Donation' with Professor John Harris

12:30 - 14:30 11 March 2014
World-renowned philosopher John Harris is Lord Alliance Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester’s Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation. This lecture directly…

Using genome engineering to reinvestigate the range of Wnt signalling

15:30 - 17:00 11 March 2014
This seminar is part of the Fly Club Seminar Series. Jean-Paul Vincent http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/research/jean-paul-vincent/ National Institute for Medical Research Throughout his…

Venereological education among medical undergraduates in England, 1890-1914

13:00 - 14:00 11 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 12 March 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Curator talk: The Space Between

11:00 - 12:00 12 March 2014
Join the artist Anthony McCarthy to find out about the inspiration for his artworks spanning from Chapel Street in Salford to The John Rylands Library.

History Lunchtime Seminar - Siobhan Talbott 'Commerce, Communities & Networks: Britain and the Atlantic World, 1603-1756'

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar: Siobhan Talbott 'Commerce, Communities & Networks: Britain and the Atlantic World, 1603-1756' All welcome, feel free to bring your lunch.

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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