🚨 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

'Yawpin' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'loud talking' from The dialect and folk-lore of Northamptonshire (1851) by Thomas Sternberg (The LL 👻) #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD

'Kenosis' is our #WordOfTheDay, which means 'the self-renunciation of divine nature'. #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

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!

⛲️'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

'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

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

'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

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

'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

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

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.

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

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

'Craquemarte' is our #WordOfTheDay, this was a large, heavy battle sword used in the late middle ages. #WOTD #LeedsLibraryWOTD