Jane Wickenden / Jane Stemp

Sorry - John Gloag, not Julian!

Another historical: the Round Table knights as the last remaining Roman legionaries in Britain - Julian Gloag, The Eagles Depart.

Best historical reimagining - Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset, but read her Lantern Bearers first. She also did a three-book Malory retelling, available as the King Arthur Trilogy, but otherwise Sword and the Circle, Light Beyond the Forest, Road to Camlann.

(two hours later) That's nothing ....

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize!

Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world."

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It's "The Ash Grove" for me. Meath Green County Primary, 1971...

#GirlsOwnCC and Cymru am byth!

One moment while I get the elbow dislocator, Blodwen. You'll never reach far enough, otherwise.

So am I - bought a ticket!

Anna had no hesitation in selling her mother's clothes. The villagers were soon to learn the consequences of casting out a stranger with cholera...

Short answer: no. Nor of logic, nor culpability.

Well, aaaargh. They have corrected the two typos on the website but not in the flyer that they were handing out. Nor have they improved the picture. However I get a fee, which is news!

Betlehem closed off

#BREAKING | The Israeli army has SEALED OFF Bethlehem in the West Bank, closing all entrances and exits to the city.

This has a name, It's called an illegal siege. Imagine YOU had to live like this.

(sorry, the catalogue doesn't have a browse option so there are superfluous titles. I've reduced it to the London publications here: discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=dat...

I can only find holding libraries in the UK, sorry. But fwiw - perhaps a contact could arrange you a photocopy and post it?
discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?q=dat...

Sanguine, bilious, choleric, phlegmatic.

#Engineers #Bioengineers Is anyone out there in contact with Prof Marilyn Lord with whom I, new librarian, shared an office in UCL Dept Mech Engineering 1986-1987? I'd love to get back in touch.

"When I find the git who put Superglue in this pothole ... " thought Amelia, as she desperately strove to maintain her balance.
#GirlsOwnCC

I have an unfair advantage here, having done an English degree that basically started at Beowulf and stopped at Chaucer 🙂

My grandfather was out there on Agamemnon...

There are an awful lot of Wilsons - even Luciles Wilson!

I see his name is spelt differently - maybe that's why I couldn't find it.

Thank you for the correction!

Such adorable ears!

It may be that nobody has actually added it to that particular site, but its coverage of the US is usually good. I know my way round UK genealogy better!

I can't find a marriage record for them in familysearch.org...

Eglerio!

Oooffff.

Thank you!

Think it's a bit past its Best Before date by now, but thank you all the same 🙂