Touring themed literary readings to libraries, art centres, heritage sites, village halls, galleries, pubs & other community venues
North of England & Borders
Joined February 2012
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The composer George Fenton has died at the age of 76.
His music included Blue Planet, Planet Earth and multiple movies - Baftas + Emmys and received five Oscar nominations.
He composed BBC TV news theme tunes including the memorable Newsnight music.
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This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the trains that run through it. It is not civic or sociable architecture....
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This year, we mark 175 years since the Public Library Act 1850 – a radical step towards free access to books and knowledge.
Though initially greeted with mixed feelings, libraries today stand as everyday gateways to learning, culture, and community for all: bit.ly/BLBlogPublicLibrary
ALT Illustration of Shoreditch Free Public Library in the Penny Illustrated Paper, 13 May 1893, p.300
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My cartoon for this week’s @GuardianBooks
ALT Image: A small, pretty English village. A girl with a bag on her shoulder runs towards a van on the other side of the village green. She says to herself "I've got to follow my heart and leave this sleepy village behind. A new life awaits on the open road, touring from town to town in a merry band of brilliant eccentrics!" Title: “Rebecca runs away to join the travelling library”
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«Success is not linear»
Performance by dancer and coreographer Yoann Bourgeois
[📹 Mathieu Stern]
[🎵 Sigur Rós]
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I remember one of the Ahlberg's saying "we decided to put as much work into a picture book as Tolstoy put into War and Peace". And they did. And the world was better for it.
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'Sheltering by the Theatres, Shaftesbury Avenue' by Rob Pointon
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There is something magical about a bookshop. The smell. Moving slowly along the aisles, not knowing what you will find, but full of expectation and hope. Coming across a book you didn't know you needed but is exactly the right one for this time in your life.
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Today would have been the 445th birthday of our founder, Humphrey Chetham! 🎂 ❤️ As the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, today we're carrying on the important work he started, and are committed to inspiring the next generation of readers and thinkers 🙌
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A sense of calm & perhaps loneliness, as a breeze from the Maine coast blows the tattered blind & gauze curtains away from the window, seeming to animate the small embroidered birds, as twin tyre tracks curve across the bare field (Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea 1947)
