For our last post of the year – a curated list of previous articles on the Secret Library Leeds about all things Winter and Christmas. Plenty of reading material here to get you through the next two weeks! We shall return with our regular programming in the first week of January. Season’s greetings to all…
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Chilling Memories
Temperatures may have improved a little recently but last week’s cold snap was nothing compared to the icy conditions experienced by Leeds in times past. Local history librarian Ross Horsley looks back on some of the city’s cruelest winters… “The Wharfe and the Aire are frozen to a depth capable of bearing anything,” reported the Leeds Mercury in…
“Large, loose, baggy monsters”: On Reading Really Long Books Through Winter
by Antony Ramm, Local and Family History, Leeds Central Library “Winter is coming”, they say. Well, it’s not just coming—it’s here. And, while Winter may be cold and dark and seemingly never-ending, the upside is that these characteristics surely make Winter the very best time of year to really indulge the yearning common to all readers:…
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