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Exactly! Pretty shocked at the responses here to be honest.

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Also reflects the weakness of the Labour candidate in North Islington. Hardly ran any campaign at all and did nothing to try and win over wavering voters.

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The British Museum's famous Reading Room has reopened

➡️ ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...

Quietly and without fanfare, the British Museum has reopened its world-famous reading room, and anyone can now visit it for free.

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That is a niche request! I've have a think to see if anyone I know might have these.

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

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Love to see how this would handle Finnegans Wake.

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It is real, one of his real surnames is Lennon which is a name with Irish roots.

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all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

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Joan Aiken is one of my all time favourite writers, I still re-read The Wolves of Willoughby Chase every few years.

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True but then trains are superior to every other form of transport.

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Long read on the hard, vital and caring work of public library staff - ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books www.theguardian.com/news/article...

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Yes! Big push from academic libraries to encourage authors to retain their reprint prints. Too much power in the hands of the big publishers otherwise.

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Sounds like a very tough few weeks, best of luck for the future.

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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🧵 As a former librarian, I'll add: Rich (& middle class) ppl also close libraries bc they can't conceive of the need, aka a failure of empathy. I was *constantly* asked: 1) People still go to libraries? (yes) 2) Isn't everything digitized now? (wow, no, let's examine just how how wrong that is)

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Am I imagining it or did they have an open fire in the George's St Bewleys back in day? Seem to remember going in there on rainy days to get warm with a cup of tea and a cherry bun.

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London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash

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Really? When was the last time anyone was shot at a protest in England?

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Lorcan Dempsey's avatar Lorcan Dempsey @lorcand.bsky.social
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Very nice piece by Eric Klinenberg on Seward Park Library (2018).. The Secret Life of Libraries,
The children, readers, learners, neighbors, and karaoke singers who use one local library every day.
slate.com/human-intere...

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How hard is it just to write 'best of luck for the future!'?

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