Leila Kassir
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Lyons Corner Houses & teashops + Literature Librarian @SenateHouseLib + zines & pamphlets + cafes + Beatles
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You Groovy Lovely People! We are lucky enough to nearly have a full run of the legendary OZ Magazine Bishopsgate Institute but are missing issues 1, 14, 22 and 26-27. Can you help?? We would dig you forever, you cool cats!
Tonight is #StMarksEve . In British folklore, those who gather in their local churchyard may witness a shadowy parade: that of the spirits of the neighbours who would die within the next year.
More in Verity Holloway’s piece for The Darkness Issue.
👉🏽 helleborebooks.com
Virago Collectors' Cards - Rosamond Lehmann No. 1. I'm not sure how many were in the series. I have 1-13; 15-18 and 27. Does anyone know more about them? Virago Press #rosamondlehmann
Have you seen our Senate House Library #SeizedBooks campaign yet?
This new online exhibition explores the censorship of LGBTQ+ lit & the defiant campaign against 1984 raids on Gay's The Word
Explore confiscated titles, the legal battle & queer reading cultures: london.ac.uk/seized-books
A coven of bewitching reads within #SeizedBooks 🔮
Titles seized in the Operation Tiger raids delve into witchcraft's queer histories - from lesbian herbalists to the Radical Faeries' counter-cultural movement
Discover more in the #SeizedBooks exhibition london.ac.uk/seized-books
Big shout out to the librarian who created these fabulous labels The Birmingham & Midland Institute #NationalLibrarianDay
Many thanks to Johny Pitts, Hayward Gallery Herbert Art Gallery & Museum! This exhibition renders working class photographic practices in generative and nuanced manners, check it out! Making a contribution to this group exhibition has been mad inspiring, as I continue to develop my practices.
As part of the new Senate House Library exhibition #SeizedBooks , @ials_law Foreign and International Librarian Hester Swift has written an accompanying blog post exploring the legal case behind #OperationTiger .
Links to exhibition and post here at: tinyurl.com/mw8xvudz