Turner & Paige no.15 Mar. 20th 2015
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Category: Thing of the Day
A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
Our Favourite Books – Mar. 16th 2015
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson You will probably be familiar with the Desert Island Discs formula – 10 songs, a luxury item and one book. In the extremely unlikely event I ever appeared on the show, …
Turner & Paige no.14 Mar. 13th 2015
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Turner & Paige no.13 Mar. 6th 2015
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My favourite book?
It’s World Book Day. Across the UK, primary school children headed off to school this morning dressed as characters from their favourite books. Some wore lovingly crafted hand-made costumes, the product of hours of activity on the part of inventive …
One from my top ten books
I’ve just finished (again) The Once and Future King by T.H. White – a real favourite. A retelling of the Arthurian legends, heavily (and unashamedly) based on Mallory, a classical tragedy told with feeling but never mawkish. The style is …
My favourite read
The ghost of Thomas Kempe by Penelope Lively Favourite book as a child: I must have read this book over and over as an older child / young teen – I was desperate for my own poltergeist and it is …
Library seagull video goes global
Planet Bizzaro, the part of Brazil’s largest news portal, G1, dedicated to bringing the funny, strange and different to the world, reported on our video of one of the seagulls that hatched on our roof last year being surprised at its own reflection …
Turner & Paige no.11 Feb. 20th 2015
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Portsmouth public libraries join the Access to Research scheme
Portsmouth City Council Library Service is now signed up to the Access to Research scheme. This trial scheme makes publicly funded research available to everyone free of charge from public libraries. Access is currently only through the networked computers available library computers; there is no …
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