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Michael Douglas retweeted
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of Peter Mandelson's big pre-Washington interview, when he claimed questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession" adding: "You can all f*** off."
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Michael Douglas retweeted
12 Jun 2025
"We're all under pressure to churn out endless non-stories just to satiate the editors' unhinged bugbears," says one weary Telegraph hack
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Michael Douglas retweeted
10 Mar 2025
Thank you for following @UoMLibrary here over the years.
We will no longer be active on this account, though you can stay up to date with us over on BlueSky.
bsky.app/profile/uomlibrary.…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
9 Dec 2024
Best of British Theatre for Free! 🎭 All students and staff at The University of Manchester can enjoy a selection of acclaimed drama performances online from major UK theatres for free. Full details: ow.ly/sCvu50UkX1B
ALT Maxine Peake as Hamlet
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Michael Douglas retweeted
Thanks🙏to @BedfordParkSoc for featuring next Sunday afternoon's @YeatsBedfordPk literary walk around #Yeats's inspirational boyhood London neighbourhood, the uniquely progressive artist's colony of🌻#BedfordPk🌻Do join us if you're free. Booking now, see tinyurl.com/poetryinthepavem…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
3 Sep 2024
Important new analysis from @BBCNews reveals extent of library cuts since 2016. The poorest areas are around four times more likely to lose a local library than the richest. Our CEO @HunterIsobel is quoted bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
15 Aug 2024
Clearing 2024 is open!
We have limited spaces on a number of courses.
Image alt text:
The image features a young person smiling warmly, with a colourful and playful background that includes abstract shapes. The text reads "CLEARING 2024" and "SEARCH OUR VACANCIES"
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Michael Douglas retweeted
4 Aug 2024
Spellow Library needs our help after the riots. Please donate, like, comment, and share to bring new books and a safe space back for the kids. Let's make a difference together! gofund.me/b28ba16d
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Michael Douglas retweeted
6 Jun 2024
The D-Day planners said they needed ‘a quiet day with not more than moderate winds and seas and not too much cloud for the airmen’. But who would make the forecast?
Stephen Dillane reads Lawrence Hogben’s account of how they almost chose the wrong day: lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-video…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
5 Jun 2024
Hey guys - due to a change in our plans, the main space at Levenshulme Old Library is currently available for the entire summer break.
We originally cancelled all summer bookings due to the anticipated closure, however we've just learned that this closure is no longer required.
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Michael Douglas retweeted
22 May 2024
Fellowship Funding: we have a @TheJohnRylands visiting doctoral fellowship opportunity to undertake archival research at John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. Closing date for applications 10 June. For further information see: library.manchester.ac.uk/ryl…
ALT John Rylands Research Institute & Library Historic Reading Room
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Michael Douglas retweeted
24 Apr 2024
The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place #OTD 1932, organised by Manchester communist leader and Jewish anti-fascist Benny Rothman, secretary of the British Workers' Sports Federation. The Peak District was designated the UK’s first national park in April 1951.
24 Apr 2024
92 years ago today (24 April, 1932) the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass took place.
This marked the beginning of the right-to-roam movement. 🥾
Thanks to these pioneers we can now all enjoy the right to access our Peak District National Park. 💚
👉 bit.ly/MassTrespass
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17 Mar 2024
Best three albums in a row released by a band?
#neurosis #throughsilverinblood #timesofgrace #asunthatneversets
17 Mar 2024
Best three albums in a row released by a band?
Peerless. Quite literally changed the face of modern music.
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Michael Douglas retweeted
5 Mar 2024
Want to know why Michelle Donelan was forced to make an extraordinary apology to two academics earlier today?
It's a bizarre tale involving Policy Exchange, a secret government dossier and a libel case paid for by the taxpayer
A short thread (1/10)
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Michael Douglas retweeted
1 Feb 2024
The bassist of Fall of Efrafa has a newsletter and they wrote a really lovely, borderline profound, appreciation of Tragedy’s second album. theansible.substack.com/p/ve…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
1 Feb 2024
Been to the BL so many times and never realised it looks like a ship - feels like one of those optical illusions clicking into place
1 Feb 2024
Don't think the visual metaphor of this building has ever struck me so strongly as it does tonight. Something beautiful about the ship, pulled up right in the heart of London.
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16 Dec 2023
So I've started a Substack, 'The Ansible', a monthly music newsletter!
You can read my first piece, 'Future's Shadow', a love letter to early Metallica and Bell Witch's incredible album "Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate"
theansible.substack.com/p/fu…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
27 Nov 2023
Changes are in place for Library opening hours from Saturday, 16 December 2023 until Tuesday, 2 January 2024.
For a complete list of opening hours for all Library websites, including Main Library and AGLC, please visit the Library website.
manchester.ac.uk/discover/ne…
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Michael Douglas retweeted
25 Oct 2023
It is probably a mistake to put the future of human civilisation in the hands of people who don't understand what a book is.
21 Oct 2023
I think we will stop publishing books, but instead publish “thunks”, which are nuggets of thought that can interact with the “reader” in a dynamic and multimedia way. There can still be classic linear “passive read mode”, but that can be autogenerated based on the recipient’s level of existing context and knowledge.
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