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Leeds Lit Fest (@leedslit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 Join us for a big gathering at Hyde Park Book Club on September 15th 🚨 We’ll have guest speakers, a book stall and an open mic Earlybird tickets have nearly sold out🎫 Get yours 👉 bit.ly/3X181IN

🚨 Join us for a big gathering at Hyde Park Book Club on September 15th 🚨

We’ll have guest speakers, a book stall and an open mic

Earlybird tickets have nearly sold out🎫 Get yours 👉 bit.ly/3X181IN
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'Yawpin' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'loud talking' from The dialect and folk-lore of Northamptonshire (1851) by Thomas Sternberg (The LL 👻) #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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'Barbican' is our #WordOfTheDay, this was an outer fortification or defence to a walled city or castle; usually a strong, crenelated tower erected over a gate or bridge. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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Thank you so much to a member for the generous donation of plum and lime preserve! 🍑🍋 It's almost too good to eat...no, not really!

Thank you so much to a member for the generous donation of plum and lime preserve! 🍑🍋 It's almost too good to eat...no, not really!
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⛲️'Pure & Free' ⛲️ Dr Kathryn Ferry on Victorian drinking fountains. And the talk itself is free to attend. 18:00 on Thurs 5 Sept The Leeds Library Book here: leedsphilandlit.org.uk/shop/pure-and-… Ornate architecture, pure water: 1860s fountain in Parliament Sq, London

⛲️'Pure & Free' ⛲️
<a href="/SeasideFerry/">Dr Kathryn Ferry</a> on Victorian drinking fountains.
And the talk itself is free to attend.

18:00 on Thurs 5 Sept
<a href="/theleedslibrary/">The Leeds Library</a>

Book here:
leedsphilandlit.org.uk/shop/pure-and-…

Ornate architecture, pure water:
1860s fountain in Parliament Sq, London
The Leeds Library (@theleedslibrary) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'Equanimity' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'the quality of having an even mind or temper; of being relaxed and well-composed in a difficult situation'. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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Copies are now available of 'Margins', a creative writing anthology produced through collaboration with students at Leeds Arts University's Creative Writing and Graphic Design courses! Limited edition of 100 handmade chapbooks - get your copy today! bit.ly/474lL91

Copies are now available of 'Margins', a creative writing anthology produced through collaboration with students at Leeds Arts University's Creative Writing and Graphic Design courses! Limited edition of 100 handmade chapbooks - get your copy today!
bit.ly/474lL91
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'Ossuary' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'a receptacle (an urn, vault, tomb, etc.) for the dried bones of the dead; a charnel house.' #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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'Psychopomp' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'a mythical conductor or guide of souls to the place of the dead'. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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'Solar Plexus' is our #WordOfTheDay, this is the complex of nerves situated at the pit of the stomach; the epigastric plexus. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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'Amphoriskos' is our #WordOfTheDay, this is a small jar in the shape of an amphora (a tall jar with two handles), used for holding cosmetics, ointments, or perfumes. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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'Eviternity' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'the sensation of everlasting duration; eternal existence, eternity'. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

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Our first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) has gone off for conservation! The book is going to be rebound, through the generosity of a member via our Adopt a Book scheme. (Note the spelling mistake!) A new case is also being hand made.

Our first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) has gone off for conservation! The book is going to be rebound, through the generosity of a member via our Adopt a Book scheme. (Note the spelling mistake!) A new case is also being hand made.
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Join us on Tuesday 15 October for a very special event as Frances Brody and Chris Nickson talk historical crime fiction, Leeds, God’s Own Country in a discussion that promises to range far and wide and to include some local stories and strange facts. bit.ly/4dYHbGS

Join us on Tuesday 15 October for a very special event as Frances Brody and Chris Nickson talk historical crime fiction, Leeds, God’s Own Country in a discussion that promises to range far and wide and to include some local stories and strange facts.

bit.ly/4dYHbGS
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'Empyreal' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'of or relating to the heavens or firmament; celestial, sublime'. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD