John Hodgson - Research Explorer The University of Manchester

Areas of expertise

Z719 Libraries (General)
CD921 Archives
AM Museums (General). Collectors and collecting (General)

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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‘Fraught with possibilities of world-wide benefit’: Towards a history of photography at the John Rylands Library
Gow, E., Hodgson, J., Robinson, J. & Richards, T., 17 Dec 2025, In: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 101, 2, p. 15-33 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Classified by their Classifications: Nineteenth-Century Library Classifications in Context
Hodgson, J. R., 2022, In: History of European Ideas. 48, 5, p. 499-517 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Knowledge under attack: [review of] Richard Ovenden, Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack (London: John Murray, 2020) and Dan Rabinowitz, The Lost Library: The Legacy of Vilna’s Strashun Library in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2019)
Hodgson, J., 27 Jan 2021, In: Reviews in History.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Spoils of Many a Distant Land: The Earls of Crawford and the Collecting of Oriental Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century
Hodgson, J., 4 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 48, 6, p. 1011-1047 37 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Open Access
Class acts: The twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford and their manuscript collections
Hodgson, J., 2017, 353 p.
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

CILIP Library History Essay Award 2021 joint winner
Hodgson, J. (Recipient), 1 Feb 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Spreadsheet index of named bookbinders in the Sotheby's auction catalogues for the sales of the Major John Roland Abbey collection, sold between 1965 and 1989
Hodgson, J. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 25 Nov 2025
DOI: 10.48420/30687251
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MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS: See extraordinary lost footage of the Dunkirk evacuation
Hodgson, J.
27/07/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other

Class Acts: The Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Earls of Crawford and their Manuscript Collections
Hodgson, J. (Author), Milner, S. (Main Supervisor) & Armstrong, G. (Co Supervisor), 6 Sept 2017
Student thesis: Phd

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