Events are now back in-person, including Wriggle and Rhyme sessions (Wednesdays at 10.30am), with many live-streamed. For more information please call the library on 020 7926 6050 or email carnegielibrary@lambeth.gov.uk
Laura Miles is the author of Transgender Resistance: Socialism and the fight for trans liberation and other articles. She is a former lecturer and LGBT rep on the national executive committee of the University and College Union, and is an active socialist and LGBT+ campaigner. She lives in Wakefield with her partner and her dogs.
This event is part of Transgender Awareness Week and is organised by the Friends of Carnegie Library.
The event is in-person in the library and Live streamed on Carnegie Library Facebook
Join Lee to discuss his award-winning biography and the event that changed Brixton forever.
What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for?
On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched, and shops looted.
But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever.
In person in the library
The library is open again, with extended hours 6 days a week.
Librarians are on duty.
Some of the charges are going to increase - with concessions for children and 65+ (no longer 60).
The new charges will not take effect until November.
Click here for the table of charges (from the Lambeth Library website)
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Library Services from September Lambeth Libraries are putting in place plans to remove the need for appointments to visit your library. We have kept appointments in place as cases of Covid have been higher in Lambeth than neighbouring boroughs. We are also aware that many of our readers are still very cautious about visiting community settings and appreciate what we have done to keep your library as safe as we can. We hope to remove the need for appointments in early September and we will also be re-introducing many library activities during September and October. Thank you all for your patience during what has been a really difficult time for everyone. We appreciate your support and understanding. |
Whether its borrowing Books, Audiobooks, Magazines or Comics, we have an amazing amount available for free with your library card. If resources such as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is your thing check out our extensive online resources.
John Ruskin, best-known and most controversial intellectual of the Victorian age, was an art critic, a social activist, an early environmentalist. He was also a painter, writer, and a determined tastemaker in the fields of architecture and design. By championing JMW Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, he ensured that their flame continued to burn long beyond his death in 1900, even as his own reputation faded.
Research for his award-winning book Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World took Financial Times columnist Andrew Hill from Herne Hill to the Lake District, from Venice to Florida's Gulf Coast, as he traced the influence of Ruskin and his ideas.
This event is now an in-person event at Carnegie Library! (but if circumstances change and this is not possible, it will be online via Zoom. If the event reverts to online - we will update you accordingly).