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The exterior of Batley Library (Batley, West Yorkshire, England) in Ken Annakin’s Value for the Money (1955).

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BRADFORD IN THE 16TH CENTURY

. During the 16th century Bradford developed much bigger and more critical. This was despite flare-ups of torment. It struck Bradford in 1557-58. . The fleece industry proceeded to develop. By the 16th century, numerous individuals in towns close to Bradford wove fleece. It was at that point taken to the town to be filled and coloure .There was moreover an impressive calfskin tanning industry in Bradford. Approximately 1540 an author named Leland portrayed Bradford as: 'A lovely active showcase town, approximately half the measure of Wakefield. It has one area church and a chapel devoted to St Sitha. It lives for the most part by (making) clothing and is 4 miles far off from Halifax and 6 from Christ corridor (Kirkstall) Nunnery. There's a conversion in this town of 3 brooks'. By 1500 a language structure school existed in Bradford and within the late 16th century the wooden houses within the town were revamped in stone.

 BRADFORD IM THE 17TH CENTURY.

• In 1642 came the gracious war between the lord and parliament. The individuals of Bradford unequivocally upheld parliament but the encompassing farmland sided with the ruler. In October royalist troops made there, to begin with, endeavour to require Bradford but the townspeople effortlessly drove them off. The royalists returned in December 1642 but once more they were driven off. In January 1643 a drive of parliamentary warriors was sent to involve Bradford. • In June 1643 a royalist army was sent to require the town. Sometime recently they arrived the parliamentary commander chosen Bradford was as well troublesome to guard and he chose to slip absent. In any case, his men were captured by the royalists at Adwalton Field. The royalists were victorious. • The vanquished parliamentary armed force fled back to Bradford. After 2 days they chose to elude at night. Most of them battled their way through the royalist lines and gotten away.

 The royalist officers at that point entered Bradford and sacked it. Bradford remained in the royalist's hands for a brief time but they surrendered the town at the starting of 1644. • In Walk 1644 the parliamentarians once more entered Bradford. It remained in parliamentary hands till the conclusion of the gracious war. Be that as it may, the enduring of the individuals of Bradford was not over. There was another flare-up of torment in Bradford in 1645. BRADFORD IN 18TH CENTURY • In the early 18th century Bradford was a little showcase town with a populace of, maybe, 4,000. Be that as it may, within the late 18th century Bradford was changed by the industrial revolution. • The material industry within the north of Britain boomed. The primary bank in Bradford opened in 1771. Bradford canal was built in 1774 and in 1777 it was connected to the Leeds-Liverpool canal. The advancement in communications boosted industry within the town. In 1793 a Bit Corridor was built where cloth can be bought and sold. Be that as it may, after 1800 the hand linger weavers.

 BRADFORD IN 19TH CENTURY

• In the late 18th century and early 19th Bradford developed exceptionally quickly. In 1780 it had a populace of around 4,500. By 1801 it had more than 6,000 tenants. By 1851 the populace of Bradford had come to an extraordinary 103,000. The gigantic rise in the populace was mostly due to migration from Germany and Ireland. • The exceptionally quick development of Bradford implied houses were built in an aimless design. There were no building controls until 1854 and most working-class lodgings were repulsive. There were no sewers or channels and stuffing was common. Most exceedingly bad of all were the cellar residences. Entirety families lived in clammy, ineffectively ventilated cellars. Regularly destitute families had no furniture. They utilized wooden boxes as tables and rested on straw or rags. • However there were a few enhancements in Bradford within the 19th century. In 1803 an Act of Parliament shaped a bunch of men called the Enhancement Commissioners who had powers to clean the lanes and light them with oil lights. They might too give a fire motor and a tidy cart. After 1823 the boulevards of Bradford were lit by gas. In 1847 an enterprise was shaped to run Bradford. • However, like all mechanical cities in those days, Bradford was terrifyingly unsanitary. In 1848-49 420 individuals kicked the bucket amid a cholera plague. In any case life in 19th century Bradford slowly moved forward. Within the 1860s and early 1870s, the organization made a organize of channels and sewers. From 1744 a private water company provided channelled water to anybody in Bradford who might pay. The committee obtained the company in 1854. After 1854 building directions progressed the quality of modern working-class houses. (Although dreadfully awful residences built some time recently at that point remained for decades). In 1877 Bradford organization started the work of ghetto clearance.

 • In the 19th century it was common to debase foodstuffs by including cheap substances. Calcium sulfate was included in peppermints. In 1858 a sweet creator in Bradford sent some person to get a few from a pharmacist. In any case, by botch, the pharmacist collaborator picked up a few arsenic considering it was calcium sulfate. Arsenic was included in the desserts. As a result, 200 individuals got to be genuinely sick and 20 died. • Meanwhile in 1853-71 Titus Salt built a show town at Saltaire. The town had better than average working-class homes, schools, and a church. • There were other enhancements to Bradford amid the 19th century. In 1843 a hospital was built. The primary stop, Peel Stop, opened in 1863. The enterprise obtained Peel Park in 1870. The primary open library in Bradford opened in 1872. • Meanwhile the railroad comes to Bradford in 1846 and from 1882 horse-drawn cable cars ran within the streets. Electricity was, to begin with, created in Bradford in 1889 and in 1898 the primary electric cable cars ran within the lanes. The

 BRADFORD Within The 20TH CENTURY

• In 1904 a Mechanical Show was held in Bradford. Cartwright Dedication Lobby was built in 1904. The Alhambra Theater opened in 1914. • to begin with board houses in Bradford were built-in 1907. Many more were built within the 1920s and 1930s to supplant annihilated ghettos. In 1919 the Church of St Dwindle was made Bradford Cathedral. Bradford Regal Hospital was built in 1936. • However on 21 Admirable 1916 blasts in a weapons production line slaughtered 39 individuals and harmed 2,000 houses. • Meanwhile in 1910 Benjamin and William Jowett began making cars in Bradford. The Jowett company made cars until 1954. Within the 1920s and 1930s, the material industry declined strongly and there was mass unemployment in Bradford. In any case, modern businesses came to Bradford such as a building. Printing moreover prospered and there was enormous increment within the number of clerical employments. Numerous more individuals worked in managing an account, protection, gracious benefit and neighbour hood government. In any case in 1939 the material industry.

 • In the late 20th-century tourism got to be a major industry in Bradford. Cliffe Castle Exhibition hall opened in 1959. Bradford Mechanical Historical centre opened in 1974. The Colour Exhibition hall opened in 1978. The Exhibition hall of Photography, Film and Tv opened in 1983. The Peace Exhibition hall opened in 1997. • In the 1950s Bradford was changed by expansive scale migration from the West Indies, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Bradford got to be a multicultural city. • In the 1950s and 1960s numerous more chamber houses were built and the city center was redeveloped. Bradford College opened in 1966. The Kirkgate Middle opened in 1971 and 1974 Bradford was made a Metropolitan Area Committee. In the meantime in 1977 a Transport Compatibility was built in Bradford.

 BRADFORD Within The MIDE 20TH CENTURY

• In 1955 the war of ghetto houses continued especially in Manchester where 68,000 were classified to be unfit. • In 1957 Henry Brooke the MP Serve of lodging and neighbourhood Government found that annihilated or condemned houses are expanding 20.000 in 1954 to 35,000 in 1956, whereas rehousing over 200.000 individuals amid the mid-1950s. • In 1960 a few neighbourhood specialists came to accumulate with a long term arrangement to address ghetto issues they found out that between 1955-1960, 416,706 houses were assessed unfit but as it were 65.372 were pulverized by 1960. Liverpool was one of the most noteworthy with around 88,000 taken after by Manchester. So they were one of the 38 areas that need that needs extraordinary attention. • Bradford board is arranging to make strides transportation system in Bradford within the another 15 a long time from 2018 Bradford Newsroom .by barging in the 21st-century cable cars which would connect to the proposed highspeed Northern Powerhouse Railroad.Got it from Bradford newsroom Thursday the 27th November 2018 at 11:30

 • City pioneers says that would too give unused extra capacity between Bradford and Leeds with a modern halt at Laisterdyke and line running through the South of Bradford with a halt in Moo Field sometime recently proceeding onto Dewsbury in Kirklees. • A London Underground fashion graph was one of the proposed lines, which would connect Leeds city middle with Bradford, Spen Valley, Castleford and East Leeds. They are moreover trusting to incorporate Leeds legs of HS2 Rail station which is anticipated to be done by 2023

 • The board says all usually within the early stages of improvement but guaranteeing that Bradford and the more out of control locale features a transport. organize fit for the 21st century that can take full advantage of a city middle station for Northern Powerhouse Rail. • washrooms Thursday the 27th November 2018 at 11:30 • City pioneers says that would too give modern extra capacity between Bradford and Leeds with a modern halt at Laisterdyke and line running through the South of Bradford with a halt in Moo Field sometime recently proceeding onto Dewsbury in Kirklees. • A London Underground fashion chart was one of the proposed lines, which would connect Leeds city middle with Bradford, spend Valley, Castleford and East Leeds. They are moreover trusting to include Leeds legs of HS2 Rail station which is anticipated to be done by 2023 • The chamber says all this can be within the early stages of improvement but guaranteeing that Bradford and the more out of control locale incorporates a transport organize fit for the 21st century that can take full advantage of a city centre station for Northern Powerhouse Rail.

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💚🖤 @paintbritain 🖤💚➡️ https://linktr.ee/paintbritain 👀 “Taking part in the CBP prize in 2018 was a real privilege and I was delighted to be included in an exhibition run by and for painters. The selection process of looking at a broader survey of an artist’s work and history, and the inclusive nature of the prize in showcasing a range of diverse painters with different approaches, appealed to me greatly. Achieving Highly Commended for my painting ‘Inside Out’, and a chance encounter with Huddersfield’s Queensgate Market, led to my first solo exhibition of over forty paintings at Huddersfield Art Gallery earlier this year. The exhibition received funding from Arts Council England and Kirklees Council, and led to several collaborations with artists, curators and arts organisations. Exposure from CBP has led to group shows and teaching opportunities, and I’ve made some great connections and working relationships with like-minded people. I’m currently developing a new body of work in connection with Bardsey Island in North Wales, and I hope to exhibit this work in Wales at some point in the future. I highly recommend submitting work for this year’s CBP Prize. Best of luck to everyone and I look forward to seeing the next exhibition in Huddersfield.” Keith Ashcroft @keithashcroft won the Highly Commended Prize at the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 If you’d like to enter the CBP Prize 2022 for a chance to win £8000 first prize, £2000 Highly Commended Prize, or be selected for the shortlist exhibitions in Huddersfield and London enter via the link in our bio. Deadline 11.59pm Sunday 3 July ⏰ #bardseyisland #ynysenlli @keithashcroft @enllibardsey @huddersfieldartgallery (at Huddersfield Library & Art Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHH2fzoA0p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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TW: Depression, suicide​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ My story part 2​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ A few more years down the line, on the cusp of 2020, I felt that my career in law was not giving me the satisfaction I wanted. I wasn't helping people as I thought I would or building the connections with my clients as I had expected. This is when it clicked: I could use my interest in Eastern #Philosophy, mindfulness and meditation to help others who were looking for additional tools to benefit their mental health or who has been turned away at a time of need. ​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ As Mindfulness Magpie started taking shape, Kirklees Library happened to be looking for someone to run mindfulness classes. The first class sold-out and I walked in, anxious but excited, to a group of fifteen people. I taught everything just as I had learnt from the book. It was a generic class, but I brought my passion and made genuine connections with some of the people in the room. One in particular always sticks with me, a woman who suffered a brain injury - she had a persistent, chronic pain in her head and struggled to focus. This is when I realised that well-being is not one-size fits all and some people need a more bespoke, 1:1 approach. The courses and classes I attended felt distant, I didn't fully connect to the material or felt that it suited my #lifestyle. It was an idealised view for the 'average' person.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ I began to question more of what I saw. How 'healthy' morning routines on YouTube would start at 5am in the morning and include a variety of activities, exercises and cooking that just didn't seem realistic to myself, working a full-time job with an hour commute. Certain meditation techniques required sitting in specific positions which seemed difficult for anyone with joint issues or pain. Even my basic breathing #meditation proved difficult for my neurodivergent partner, even though it is the typical entry point to #mindfulness.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ #journey #mystory #spirituality #mindful #meditation #mentalhealth https://www.instagram.com/p/CaB6Q4rAmA0/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Shirley's neck of the woods

Shirley’s neck of the woods

Gable of Gatehouse, Kirklees Priory (H P Kendall) 1937 © Calderdale Libraries

‘And that,’ asked Miss Keeldar, pointing to the forest—‘that is Nunnwood?’ ‘It is.’ ‘Was it not one of Robin Hood’s haunts?’ ‘Yes, and there are mementos of him still existing.’ —Chapter XII ‘Shirley and Caroline’

Welcome to the most final post on Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley(the very last despite what I suggested in an…

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Image taken from page 360 of 'The History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme; with manorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees ... One hundred and seventy illustrations. Incorporation memorial'

Image taken from: Title: "The History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme; with manorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees ... One hundred and seventy illustrations. Incorporation memorial" Author: TURNER, Joseph Horsfall. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010358.f.66." Page: 360 Place of Publishing: Bingley Date of Publishing: 1893 Publisher: Printed for the Author Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003693490 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 360) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 360 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot http://ift.tt/2BGYsD8

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85% of new coronavirus infections in Blackburn are among South Asians as local lockdown looms

Dominic Harrison, Blackburn with Darwen’s director of public health

A staggering 85 per cent of new Covid-19 infections in Blackburn with Darwen are among its South Asian population, a local health chief revealed today amid fears it will become the second place in England to be hit with a local lockdown because of a spike in coronavirus cases.

For the next month, only two people from the same family will be allowed to visit another household indoors in the Lancashire authority and everyone must wear face masks in any enclosed public space. This differs from the national guidance, which says two households of any size can meet inside. 

People are also being urged not to hug anyone from outside their own household and to get regularly tested at new mobile centres as part of the measures to avoid a Leicester-style lockdown, which council bosses say is a ‘very real’ threat.

Mass testing began at the weekend after 114 people caught the virus in the last two weeks. Latest Public Health England (PHE) data shows Blackburn with Darwen has 47 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in the last week — second only to Leicester’s rate of 101.3.

Dominic Harrison, the authority’s director of public health, said 85 per cent of the 114 new cases were people from South Asian backgrounds. That’s despite the South Asian community only accounting for 30 per cent of the council’s 150,000 population. 

Many other areas of England which have the current highest infection rates of Covid-19, such as Bradford, Rochdale and Oldham, also have large South Asian communities.

Professor Harrison told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: ‘We have what we call a rising tide event rather than an outbreak. 

‘We have a number of cases rising in specific areas across a significant community but not a single big outbreak but not a single big outbreak like Kirklees or other areas that had a workplace outbreak.

‘What we’re seeing from looking at postcode data is a single case being infected then going back to a household and all of that household getting infected.

Cases in Blackburn with Darwen have soared from around 20 per 100,000 population to a rate of 47 since June 24

A mobile testing centre at Witton Park High School in Blackburn with Darwen. Residents are being encouraged to get tested even if they don’t have symptoms

Customers wearing face masks socially distance as they queue to enter a NatWest bank in Blackburn today

Mask-clad shoppers in Blackburn this morning, following news the area could see lockdown lifting measures reversed 

85 per cent of the authority’s new cases have been people from South Asian backgrounds. That’s despite the South Asian community only accounting for 30 per cent of the council’s 150,000 population (pictured, Blackburn’s town centre)

Latest Public Health England (PHE) data shows Blackburn with Darwen (shown) has 47 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in the last week — second only to Leicester’s rate of 101.3

What rules have Blackburn with Darwen Council put in place? 

These are the rules which Blackburn with Darwen Council has announced today:  

A limit of 2 people from the same household allowed to visit another household

Please wear face coverings in all enclosed public spaces 

Avoid hugging or shaking hands with anyone outside of your immediate family

Small shops – we will be stepping up our Public Protection advice to ensure that guidelines around face coverings, social distancing, good hygiene and increased ventilation is being followed

Get tested – even if you don’t have symptoms this will help with case finding

‘And when we look at that data we can see clusters in a part of the town but the clusters are household clusters and a number of those are causing the rising tide event.

‘We know they are mainly in South Asian areas and they’re in areas with a high number of terraced houses with high numbers of occupants in the house — four or five or more.

‘We’ve had 114 new cases in the last two weeks and about 97 of those are South Asian.’ 

Health Secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the extra measures introduced in Blackburn. He told BBC Breakfast: ‘On Blackburn, I think that the council there are doing a fantastic job.

‘There is a higher rate of Covid in Blackburn than the average across the country, it’s not as high as in Leicester. We’ve gone in and are supporting them, working with them, for instance put in much more testing. And then they’ve taken these steps locally and I applaud that.

‘This is exactly the sort of local action we want to see.’

A mountain of evidence has shown Britons from black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds are more likely to contract the disease and die from it than white people.  

Scientists have yet to pin down exactly why minority groups are at a heightened risk of infection.

But they believe it may be partly explained by minority groups being more likely to live in deprived areas, live in large households and use public transport, where they interact with more potential carriers of the disease.

People from minority backgrounds are also more likely to have underlying health conditions, which is often related to poverty.

But experts say this can’t explain the whole story and increased rates of vitamin D deficiency among minorities are being investigated.

Blackburn with Darwen residents are now being told to wear face coverings in all enclosed public settings — including at work, hair dressers, beauty salons, pubs, libraries and museums.

People are being encouraged to bump elbows with other people out with their immediately family instead of hugging or embracing them.

For the next month, Blackburn with Darwen residents will have to elbow bump instead of hugging or embracing people from outwith their immediately family (Boris greeting staff at the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust on Monday)

Blackburn with Darwen Council (pictured: an aerial view of the council building) yesterday announced only two people can now visit another person at home

The council is also offering advice to small shops which struggle to enforce social distancing to help make them more ‘Covid secure’ (file)

WHICH AREAS OF ENGLAND HAVE THE HIGHEST INFECTION RATES CURRENTLY? 

Leicester

Blackburn with Darwen

Bradford 

Herefordshire 

Rochdale

Peterborough

Luton

Kirklees

Calderdale

Wakefield

Oldham

Bolton

Rotherham

Manchester

Sheffield 

Northampton 

Salford

Leicestershire

Stoke-on-Trent

Lancashire 

101.3

47.0                                  

36.5

36.4

30.5

27.4

24.3

23.7

20.0

19.1

16.6

15.1

14.7

13.3

12.9 

12.7

12.6

10.9

10.2

9.8 

Figures relate to the number of new coronavirus cases diagnosed for every 100,000 people living in each local authority between July 6 and 12. 

Testing has also been made available to anyone who wants one, with residents being actively encouraged to take a swab even if they don’t have symptoms.

And only two people from the same family are now permitted to visit another household indoors. 

This differs from the national guidance, which says two households of any size can meet inside.

The council is also carrying out inspections on small corner shops and offering advice to those which struggle to enforce social distancing to help make them more ‘Covid secure’.

Professor Harrison said he was particularly worried about these shops because many older people from South Asian backgrounds go shopping every day for fresh food.  

Professor Harrison added: ‘These steps will help and we are appealing to everyone in Blackburn with Darwen to follow them to protect themselves and their loved ones. If we don’t, a local lockdown, like in Leicester, becomes a very real possibility.’

He said the official number of cases may rise quite dramatically in the next week – but told the public not to panic because this will be due to increased testing. 

But if cases continue to rise after two weeks, then a localised lockdown would have to be considered to contain the virus’ spread.

Professor Harrison said it would be a gradual reimposing of the measures, rather than a blanket lockdown like was seen in Leicester.

Blackburn with Darwen has not yet seen a rise in coronavirus hospital admissions, which suggests the rise in cases in recent.

Professor Harrison said this boosts the council’s chances of containing the new resurgence before it spirals out of control. 

He said there was no evidence of workplace outbreaks or widespread transmission within schools. 

Council leader Mohammed Khan said: ‘I can reassure all local residents that the council is working with different agencies and organisations across the borough to help get the message out to everyone that life cannot go back to normal just yet, and we must all make sacrifices to avoid a local lockdown. 

‘Please continue to do your bit to stick to the rules to protect yourself and your family.’ 

Rate of Covid-19 infection in England dropped in May BEFORE lockdown restrictions were lifted 

The rate of coronavirus infection in England was significantly reduced before lockdown restrictions were lifted, a government study has found. 

More than 120,000 volunteers were tested across England in the month of May as part of the country’s largest coronavirus surveillance study.

Every infected person was passing the virus on to 0.57 people during May, just before schools and shops re-opened, the results show.

The finding is significantly lower than what was estimated by the Government at the time — between 0.7 and one —and proves the lockdown was effective at curbing the spread of the virus.

The reproduction rate — the average number of people each Covid-19 patient infects — was expected to be 2.4 before lockdown started.  

The research, run by Imperial College London, also gives an insight into who was more likely to catch the coronavirus in May.

Young adults aged between 18 and 24, people of Asian ethnicity, and care home workers were most likely to test positive for Covid-19.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the study, which has been repeated in June, is crucial to the country’s ongoing battle with coronavirus. 

‘This ambitious testing programme will help us better understand the spread of the virus to date, predict how it may spread in the future and inform our response to the pandemic,’ he said.

‘It shows the impact our national lockdown efforts have had and demonstrates that we have taken the right actions at the right time.’

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Special Constable recruitment at Huddersfield Library Team members from the Kirklees District of West Yorkshire Police hosted a Facebook live on the 15th of January, to answer the public's question about the current recruitment window.

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Year: 1893

Place: Bingley

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EVENT: Clusters & Entanglements | A phenomenological reading group, 23rd November

Clusters & Entanglements is a series of reading workshops in a range of non-academic / outdoor settings around the North West of England each using and combination of theory, poetry, fiction or book art as a springboard to environmental and eco-phenomenological debate. Each day-long workshop will be led by a different facilitator, bringing a different perspective on theories and experiences of place, encouraging a range of multidisciplinary networking. This pilot has been funded by the NWCDTP

1. The Question Concerning Technology | Crosby Beach Thursday 23rd November. 1030-1630

Facilitated by Sarah Hymas

We will spend the day walking Crosby Beach, exploring the convergence of text, place and experience, and the interaction between imagination, the collective and matter. This will be followed by more in-depth discussions and creative reflections in St Nicholas Church, Blundellsands. The day aims to encourage embodiment of philosophical and creative thought and action, and is open to all pgrs  / postdocs who have an interest in collaboration as process and creativity as research. Primary Reading Materials: Martin Heidegger ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ Jorie Graham ‘Sundown’ – https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/sundown

Background Reading: Jane Bennett Vibrant Matter, Chp 8 Joshua Clover & Juliana Spahr  ‘#Misanthropocene’  http://communeeditions.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/misanthropocene_web1.pdf

sign up here (places are limited to 10) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-question-concerning-technology-a-day-long-workshop-tickets-38901133337?aff=es2

*Sarah Hymas is a poet, artistbook maker and collaborator. She is currently being funded by the AHRC to research a practice-led PhD at Liverpool University exploring the intersection of phenomenology and science within marine-based ecopoetics, investigating the lyric’s potential to communicate the relationship between people and the sea, specifically regarding the impact of pollution on both.

Since 1995 she has facilitated writing and reading workshops in adult education, prisons, libraries primary and secondary schools, with undergraduates, in mental health settings, and for institutions such as the Continuing Education Department at Lancaster University, the National Association of Writers in Education and The Poetry School (online) as well as many other short term and individual projects. She runs two annual week-long residentials at The French House Experience in southwest France and an annual Imaginarium, a cross-genre workshop experiment in how writers can inspire, trust and expand their writing practice.

Her writing has appeared in print, multimedia exhibits, dance videos, lyrics, pyrotechnical installations, on stage and as an improvised opera. ‘Host’, her poetry collection, is published by Waterloo Press (2010). Her artistbook ‘Lune’ (2013) was featured in The Guardian Books Blog as an outstanding example of its form. Since 2014 she has also written site specific pieces told through geocaching, augmented reality, micro print, performance and audio in England and Scotland; some of which commissioned by Manchester Literature Festival, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Lancaster Arts City and Kirklees Council. She has toured England and Scotland with her musician collaborator Steve Lewis, performing intimately unsettling soundscapes, most recently ‘Sealegs’ at the Ilkley Literature Festival (2014) and StAnza (2015). In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment. You can read more about her work here http://sarahhymas.net/

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Shocking extent of Kirklees Council library cuts and the effects it has had on the Kirklees community

Shocking extent of Kirklees Council library cuts and the effects it has had on the Kirklees community

Kirklees Council revealed back in 2015 that dozens of jobs are to go and by 2017 to only be eight libraries ran by Kirklees Council, after £1.8 million being slashed from the library service budget. In April 2016, Kirklees Council saw the closure of two community libraries – Thornhill Lees and Lepton and the mobile service being scrapped. The eight libraries the Kirklees Council want to see left…

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People's Show of SciFi Planned

People’s Show of SciFi Planned

   The team behind the upcoming SciFest Yorkshire 2015 are preparing the People’s Show of Sci-Fi Collectables at Tolson Memorial Museum this autumn, which will feature a range of Doctor Who, Star Trek and Star Wars artefacts (among others). The exhibition will run from October half term until early 2016 to coincide with SciFest Yorkshire, a brand new science fiction festival, organised by…

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Image taken from page 210 of 'The History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme; with manorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees ... One hundred and seventy illustrations. Incorporation memorial'

Image taken from: Title: "The History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme; with manorial notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees ... One hundred and seventy illustrations. Incorporation memorial" Author: TURNER, Joseph Horsfall. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 010358.f.66." Page: 210 Place of Publishing: Bingley Date of Publishing: 1893 Publisher: Printed for the Author Issuance: monographic Identifier: 003693490 Explore: Find this item in the British Library catalogue, 'Explore'. Open the page in the British Library's itemViewer (page image 210) Download the PDF for this book Image found on book scan 210 (NB not a pagenumber)Download the OCR-derived text for this volume: (plain text) or (json) Click here to see all the illustrations in this book and click here to browse other illustrations published in books in the same year. Order a higher quality version from here. from BLPromptBot http://ift.tt/2xa2NAd

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Author: TURNER, Joseph Horsfall.

Page: 367

Year: 1893

Place: Bingley

Publisher: Printed for the Author

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Author: TURNER, Joseph Horsfall.

Page: 348

Year: 1893

Place: Bingley

Publisher: Printed for the Author

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