📣 Next Week 🔰 Tuesday 11th August 🔰 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 🔰 Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 DESERT ISLAND BOOKS on "Faith and Religion" Panel: Revd Jenni Entrican, Dr Toby Matthiesen and The Revd Canon Dr Simon Taylor 🔰 Admission £3 (pay at the door - cash only)

From our “Books That Made Me an Archaeologist” event on 21st July Many thanks to Dr. Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Dr. Jenni Butterworth & Dr. Aisling Tierney #FestivalOfArchaeology #Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @bristollibraries.bsky.social

From last night’s “Books That Made Me an Archaeologist” event in Bristol’s Redland Library Many thanks to Dr. Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Dr. Jenni Butterworth & Dr. Aisling Tierney #FestivalOfArchaeology #Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Had such a great Festival of Archaeology evening with Dr. Lorena Becerra-Valdivia & Dr. Jenni Butterworth on a panel discussing the books that inspires our eternal love for archaeology 🩷 Thanks to Lloyd and team for hosting us at Redland Library @redlandlibevents.bsky.social

📣 TODAY 🔰Tuesday 21st July 🔰7pm (doors open 6:45pm) 🔰Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 BOOKS THAT MADE ME AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
 Local archaeologists talk about the books that have influenced their life journey
 🔰Admission £3 (pay at the door - cash only) #FestivalOfArchaeology @bristollibraries.bsky.social

If you're looking for a fun evening tomorrow do consider attending this event by the Redland Library, where our own Dr. Becerra-Valdivia will be disclosing which books made her an archaeologist 👇

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📣 This Week 🔰 Tuesday 21st July 🔰 7pm  ( doors open 6:45pm ) 🔰 Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 BOOKS THAT MADE ME AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
 Local archaeologists talk about the books that have influenced their life journey
 🔰 Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) #FestivalOfArchaeology

📣 This Week 🔰 Tuesday 21st July 🔰 7pm  ( doors open 6:45pm ) 🔰 Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 BOOKS THAT MADE ME AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
 Local archaeologists talk about the books that have influenced their life journey
 🔰 Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) #FestivalOfArchaeology

📣 NEXT WEEK 🔰 Tuesday 21st July 🔰 7pm  ( doors open 6:45pm ) 🔰 Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 BOOKS THAT MADE ME AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
 Local archaeologists talk about the books that have influenced their life journey
 🔰 Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) #FestivalOfArchaeology

As he mentioned in his talk in Redland Library back in April, Tim Sullivan is launching his latest book “The Tailor” in Waterstones Bristol on Thursday 16th July at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Robert Murphy. Admission is £5 @timsullivanauthor.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

🙋‍♀️ Volunteer to help with the Summer Reading Challenge

📣 This Month 🔰 Tuesday 21st July 🔰 7pm  ( doors open 6:45pm ) 🔰 Redland Library, Bristol
 🔰 BOOKS THAT MADE ME AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
 Local archaeologists talk about the books that have influenced their life journey
 🔰 Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only )

From our “Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James” event on 11th June. Stephen James, Emily Ross ( Storysmith Books ), Harriet Baker

Author Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James at our event on 11th June

A signed first edition of Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves” was spotted by a volunteer working in Oxfam's Cotham Hill bookshop. It has now fetched more than £25,000 at auction. #BookchatWeekly

Charity shop volunteer spots a £25,000 donated book

The first edition Virginia Woolf novel has been signed by the author

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The Bristol Library Strategy Engagement Survey ends today. It has to be competed by midnight. Information + online survey 👉 www.bristol.gov.uk/ask/find-con...

📣 TODAY 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) @bristollibraries.bsky.social

Many thanks to our Redland Library staff for this book display 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) @bristollibraries.bsky.social

📣 Tomorrow 📖  Thursday 11th June 📖 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 📖  Redland Library, Bristol 📖  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) @bristollibraries.bsky.social

📣 Next month 🔰  Thursday 11th June 🔰 7pm ( doors open 6:45pm ) 📖  Harriet Baker in conversation with Stephen James 🔰   Redland Library, Bristol 🔰  Admission £3 ( pay at the door - cash only ) @bristollibraries.bsky.social

📣 Our next event is Harriet Baker in conversation

I didn't read LotR until 1975, when I was 15. These are my original copies.

Went to a bookshop which, at first, appeared to be overseen solely by a cat. Bought a pile of old books. Can a Saturday technically be any better?

Submitted for your consideration… #amwriting #fiction #Saturday

This artwork is titled "Road Trip" by Canadian painter Rebecca Aldernet. Aldernet is based in Atlantic Canada and creates figurative art often featuring solitary figures, birds, and quiet landscapes.

Visited Cowbridge Museum, had some photos and cartoons of when Lloyd George was given the freedom of the borough in 1930.

"The moment you begin to censor the writer- and history bears this out in the ugliest of fashions -so begins a process of decay in the body politic that ultimately leads to disaster." ~Rod Serling Speech, Library of Congress (1968)

Play your part in supporting libraries and the community The Friends of Redland Library needs volunteers to help organise and publicise events and activities Please email <FriendsOfRedlandLibrary@gmail.com>

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo: Literature must be a 'school of fraternity and peace' - Vatican News

Pope Leo XIV sends a message to the Turin International Book Fair, taking place this week in the northern Italian city, reiterating that literature ...

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The seldom seen Bristol Room in the Central Library is a replica of the reading room from the old library on King Street, as it would have looked circa 1740. The grandest of its fixtures is this magnificent oak overmantel, carved by the celebrated sculptor and woodworker Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721)

Great to see that the event I'm doing at @bookhaus.bsky.social with @sianushka.bsky.social supported by @thenerve.news in Bristol next Tuesday is now sold out! Still some - not many - tickets left for this event at the Brighton Festival next Thursday. brightonfestival.org/whats-on/XcZ...

Feminism for a World on Fire / What's On / Literature & Words - Brighton Festival

We bring together three incredible writers, Natasha Walter, Shahed Ezaydi and N.S. Nuseibeh to discuss the idea of a more thriving, intersectional and connected feminism.

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