Today would have been Eric Mrecombe's 100th birthday. Large print copy of Eric Morecambe : the biography : life's not Hollywood, it's Cricklewood, by his son Gary is available @CarnegieLib - jolly good read!
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Friends of Carnegie
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Friends group working to revitalise and sustain the Carnegie Library in Herne Hill
Herne Hill, SE24 0DG, London Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Last night, a very engaged & responsive audience loved Sue Hubbard's outline of the life & art of Gwen John & readings of poems evoking that life's moments. Lively Q&A + brisk book sales followed. Mark your diaries for our next author event @CarnegieLib Tues 9 June. Details soon.
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Tonight! Poet & biographer Sue Hubbard presents GOD'S LITTLE ARITST, the life & art of Gwen John, great Welsh painter, to celebrate her 150th birthday. Have a cuppa @CarnegieLib Herne Hill Road SE24 6.30 for talk & reading at 7pm. FREE
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Next week, the Government risks opening a door to a slow erosion of our fundamental rights
Take urgent action today to defend the European Convention on Human Rights.
secure.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/189608/ac…
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Which one is different? 🤔 Most people scroll right past the answer, but the sharpest minds will see it instantly. Is it A, B, C, D, E, or F??
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@brixtonbuzz We look forward to working with our new councillors for the future @CarnegieLib.
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Greens take all three seats in Greens take all three seats in Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction.
View our live election blog here: brixtonbuzz.com/2026/05/live-b…
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@DanicaPriest @BrisMeadows @EmmaforWycombe Plenty of empty homes around the country and lots of brownfield sites which could be redeveloped for housing & facilities for growing communities. No need whatsoever to build on greenfield sites or destroy nature conservation areas to enrich developers while harming the country.
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Homes England is also planning to build over @BrisMeadows a designated site of nature conservation interest with veteran trees being cut down and ancient hedgerows with bluebells destroyed. Yet @EmmaforWycombe still claims Labour care about nature?
🌻 AnnetteJB- Go Wild@writethewrongs2
Nightingales are at risk....😡👇Come on @HomesEngland why here? A wildlife charity is objecting to plans for 450 new homes due to concerns they could threaten resident nightingales. Homes England's proposals is for land next to the Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says the area is the most important nightingale site in the UK and is home to more than 1% of the country's population which could be disturbed by humans and pet cats if the plan is approved. Homes England said extensive surveys had allowed it to understand how future impact could be avoided and its plan had been shaped in consultation with ornithological experts. A spokesperson for the developers said: "They [the proposals] are evidence-based and designed to minimise risks to nightingales, with clear measures in place to mitigate any impacts. "As part of our long-term commitment to nature-positive objectives, the plans include significant improvements to nightingale habitat across the wider Lodge Hill estate." Concerns about the impact housing could have on nightingales in the area were also raised in 2013, and they were flagged again 10 years later. The RSPB says nightingales usually return to the same place to nest every year and nest on, or near, the ground so their eggs and young are at higher risk. It added that the UK's population of nightingales had already suffered a 41% decrease between 1995-2023. Read more here: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Here's a quick registration link for next Tuesday's author talk @CarnegieLib, 6.30 (tea & cake) for 7-8.30. Sue Hubbard presents her verse biog of Gwen John for the artist's 150th birthday. Free. Don't miss it. tinyurl.com/yea2jbuz
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Two weeks to our 12 May author event @CarnegieLib. @Sue_writer celebrates Gwen John in her 150th birthday year. 6.30 tea for 7-8.30. FREE. Part of LambethReadersAndWritersFestival. Book now on eventbrite.com/e/1985730739095
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3 weeks to our 12 May author event for Lambeth Readers & Writers Festival: @Sue_writer celebrates Gwen John's 150th birthday in verse. Book now free on eventbrite.com/e/1985730739095
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Celebrating
LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK
April Mon 20 - Sun 26
The theme for LVW 2026 is
Health & Wellbeing
The LGBTQIA+ community is being targeted globally
In order to thrive, we must learn to survive
#LVW26
lesbianvisibilityweek.com
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WE'RE BACK!
MORE FREE LGBT+ Writing Workshops
Kings Arms
23 Poland St
W1F 8QJ
5.45pm
4 Mondays:
May 11, 18
June 1, 8
For LGBT+ who have a little writing experience:
Improve your writing;
Get new inspiration;
Explore different techniques.
Register+info:
outsavvy.com/event/35479/ma…
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LAMBETH
Local
Author
Book
Fair
We'll be there
Selling our books
Talking about our stuff!
Saturday, May 23
3-6pm
Upper Norwood Library
39-41 Westow Hill
SE19 1TJ
Register+Info:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/local-author…
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@DannyDrinksWine The lovely Ida Lupino was born in Herne Hill, south London, about half a mile from @CarnegieLib.
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The producer of Fritz Lang's "While the City Sleeps" (1956) wanted to cut this scene in which Ida Lupino places her mouth around a cigarette with exquisitely broad suggestiveness.
But Fritz Lang insisted on having the scene in the movie, and after a preview audience laughed and applauded it, the grumbling executive had to relent.
("Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews", Carl Rollyson, 2012)
P.S: On this day, 70 years ago, "While the City Sleeps" (1956) premiered in London, UK.
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@Bonn1eGreer Yes, Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles & other British rock stars to the US & also featured the Jackson 5, Supremes & many others. He is celebrated in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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If you weren't born yet; not raised in the US in the '60s; etc. you don't know #EdSullivan. BIG Saturday night show. Once he brought on #TheBeatles. Changed the world, even for a Black girl growing up on the Southside of Chicago.
He deserves his place in the #RocknRollHallOfFame
Bonnie Greer@Bonn1eGreer
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Thanks @OneEyeGrey for highly entertaining presentation of South Parks @CarnegieLib last night. The 100+ audience loved it, & glad several books sold. Next author event 12 May @Sue_writer - God’s Little Artist - Free booking: eventbrite.com/e/1985730739095
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@effthealgorithm @nelson_atkins I suppose they don't know that authors can register for Public Lending Right and get something every time their books are borrowed. But I don't blame you for giving up on responding to the willfully ignorant.
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Yes, I couldn’t follow their argument. It started by saying libraries and free things like that are tax supported but only the poor should use them; that the rest of us should buy books and art because using the library rips off the authors.
But every response led to a different disagreement from them, and I can’t be arsed.
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Still thinking about the guy in the comments who told me only poor people should use #libraries. He insisted people who aren’t poor should pay for books and other art, not access them for free.
Thought about that a lot while I was at the @nelson_atkins today which, like many museums, is free. Besides, how am I supposed to pay for these?
Katherine Argent@effthealgorithm
Cancel them all. Yes, you’ll have to find a place to rent movies. Pro tip: try your public library. You can check out DVDs and sometimes do Interlibrary Loans for ones your local branch doesn’t have and it’s free! Plus, you’ll be supporting your community and not microdosing billionaires who think we exist for their profit.
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Starting next month, a series of 5 online writing workshops with Gordon Urquhart and yours truly.
Some bursary places available!
litfest.org/workshops26/
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ITS NOT TOO LATE to stop this shocking and shameful attack on our fundamental right to protest. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC and Greenpeace have joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown on our right to freedom of expression and assembly - and you can help too by CONTACTING YOUR MP RIGHT NOW - tag them to this film and and ask them to oppose this
Peter Stefanovic@PeterStefanovi2
🚨THIS WEEK MP’S WILL VOTE ON A BILL TO GIVE POLICE UNPRECEDENTED POWERS TO BAN RECURRING PROTESTS TURNING A FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOM INTO A PRIVILEGE GRANTED BY THE STATE We cannot allow this government to create a society where protest is treated as a privilege granted by the state rather than a right held by the people. The right to protest is precious and must be defended. ITS NOT TOO LATE to stop this shocking and shameful attack on our fundamental right to protest. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC and Greenpeace have joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown on our right to freedom of expression and assembly - and you can help too by CONTACTING YOUR MP RIGHT NOW - tag them to this film and and ask them to oppose this
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