Celebrating the Yorkshire Dialect
Yorkshire Day Weekend event with the Yorkshire Society and the Yorkshire Dialect Society
Keighley Local Studies Library
Saturday 30th July
10.30am – 4.30pm
Admission £5 (See ticket details below)
The Yorkshire Dialect Society is kicking off a weekend of activities for Yorkshire Day in Keighley with something unique and special about Yorkshire people – how we talk! The way we speak is unique and helps define us – it’s part of what makes us Yorkshire!
Speakers will include Ian Stevenson on The Story behind Yorkshire Dialect; Rod Dimbleby, Chairman of YDS, on the prolific 19th century Halifax dialect poet and storyteller John Hartley of Clock Almanac fame; and Eric Scaife on Tyke Talk – readings and recitations of dialect poems and prose.
There will also be an exhibition of books and pamphlets by the noted Keighley librarian, historian, writer and dialect poet, the late Ian Dewhirst who sadly died in 2019.
Yorkshire Dialect was, and hopefully still is, the language of the ordinary people of Yorkshire. So come along to Keighley Library for a day of celebration of this wonderful living part of our Yorkshire heritage.
Tickets can be bought through Eventbrite at:
Keighley Local Studies Library
Tel: 01535 618215
E: keighleylocalstudies@bradford.gov.uk
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Bradford Libraries holds many resources relating to the Great War. Some are in digital copy and some are hard copy resources, only available in the libraries.
This site aims to bring together many of the resources, links and stories relating to the Great War.
This is a new blog for the teenage and young people’s reading groups of Bradford Libraries
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
We have had this book before in our group, I enjoyed reading it then but not enough to read it again. 8/10
A sensitive account of love and art in extreme circumstances. 8/10
Out of a nightmare comes an unexpectedly beautiful story of friendship, kindness and love. Despite having read it before I re-read it and enjoyed just as much as the first time. 9/10
I enjoyed this story. 8/10
Burley Library Reading Group
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Beauty by Raphael Selbourne
- Beauty’s journey to self-worth without compromising her faith and culture was a triumph. 9/10
- Beauty is a nineteen year old Bengali woman who grew up in London and returned after being forced to marry a much older man in Bangladesh. The story is gripping and fascinating, I would recommend it to friends. 8/10
- From not liking it at all, I ended up really liking it. 8/10
- Original, thought provoking and ultimately life enhancing. 9/10
Burley Readers Group
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Alone in Berlin by Hans Falladia
The novel is set in Berlin in the early 1940s. It is a time of great suspicion and fear for ordinary people. Bullies, petty criminals and psychopaths are given positions of power solely because they are loyal Nazi Party members. People spy on their neighbours and denounce them to the Gestapo. Overt opposition is punished brutally and anyone not supporting the Party is suspect and liable to imprisonment on the pettiest of charges.
Yet there are many decent people who don’t hate others, believe in justice and just want to get on with their lives. How can you oppose such a brutal regime with its fanatical supporters? Otto Quangel tries to in his own quiet away. He is a craftsman carpenter who is foreman in a joinery factory. Prior to the war the workers produced furniture but now they make coffins for the growing numbers of German dead. His son is killed in action and Quangel lives quietly with his wife in a small flat. His way to fight the Nazis is to produce at least two anonymous postcards every weekend and leave them in offices or blocks of flats where they might be found by Berliners. Their message is always to condemn the war and state that Hitler is lying to the German people. If he is discovered he knows he will be executed for treason and his wife, Anna, with him. He hopes that people will read the cards and maybe think for a while what their content means. He knows he is sowing dissent and that his actions will anger and frighten the authorities.
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