Bolton Library - Unique and Distinctive

Advent 2025: 24 December

Today’s images features a beautiful Christmas card found in the Bolton Library

Today’s images features a beautiful nativity scene from the Bolton Library

A rare surviving copy of a law passed during the interregnum under Oliver Cromwell from the Bolton Library

Today’s post on Christmas Carols from the Bolton Library

For this year’s Advent Calendar, we hope you enjoy this selection of festive findings from […]

Showcasing the best of the Bolton Library for National Heritage Week 2022

Zodiac Planet Man A volume for the spiritual begins with the corporeal, the temporal, […]

Yellow Textblock edges stained a solid block of colour can be a useful indicator […]

X Pattern So few bindings survive from the turn of the 13th century that […]

Waste Some of the material in the Bolton Library has taken a rather more […]

Valuable ‘NB. I found this valuable book fast falling in pieces and almost destroyed […]

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