Holocaust Memorial Day enables us to remember – for a purpose. It gives us a responsibility to work for a safer, better, future for everyone. Everyone can step up and use their talents to tackle prejudice, discrimination and intolerance wherever we encounter them.

Select the link or the image to go to: https://www.hmd.org.uk/ for resources and more information about why we remember this day.

Join the 'Be the Light in the Darkness' event on Youtube.

Wednesday January 27
11am

Live online

To reflect and to remember

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.

Select the link or the image to view our collection of eAudio and eBook titles: Be the Light in the Darkness

We also have a podcast of readings being put together for Holocaust Memorial Day so keep a look out for that.

Thursday January 21
11am - 12noon

Live online

Kirklees Libraries' Writer-in-Residence Christina Longden will be talking about strong female writers and characters in her favourite novels and will also be addressing the difficulties of attempting to engage in writing (whether physical, emotional or psychological), if you happen to be a woman from a working-class background.

Part of the British Library’s Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights exhibition and streamed live via: Facebook, Twitter and Youtube and recorded for catch-up viewing later.

Kirklees Libraries want you to join us.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger.

For more information and to listen to what some of our staff have to say about working for Kirklees Libraries simply follow the link: http://www.kirkleeslibraries.co.uk/recruitment/

Application forms can be found here and the closing date is January 31.

Thursday February 11th
6.30 - 7.30pm
Carl Chinn - In conversation
Live online

Well-known social historian Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out, one of whom was his own great grandfather, and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in the back-streets of Birmingham in the 1920s.

In this gripping social history book, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War.

Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham’s under world and highlights the fact behind fiction.

Streamed Live via: Facebook, Twitter and Youtube and recorded for catch-up viewing later.

This collection of books can be borrowed by any number of people at the same time.
Ideal for a group of friends / family to read together and talk about.

Select the image or the link to view our collection of eAudio and eBooks for Reading with friends

A collection of books to support homework topics for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children. These are special simultaneous use copies, which mean you'll never have to wait to borrow a title.

Select the image or the link to view our collection of eAudio and eBooks for Homework Topics

Whether it's an old favourite you keep coming back to or the latest bestseller everyone's talking about, post a picture of what you're reading and let us know what you think about it. You might just find your next favourite read!

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We have over 29,000 eAudio and eBook titles. Borrow them for free with your Kirklees library card and PIN.

View the collection along with details of how to download and use the Libby app via our Overdrive page at: kirklees.overdrive.com

Digital Magazines and Newspapers

Choose from over 7,300 national and international titles to read online or download for offline convenience.
Complimentary access with your Kirklees library card and PIN for 60 days before you have to sign in again.
Create a collection of favourite titles, search and add new ones.
Share articles through email and social media, or save and organize them into categories with labels for quick and easy access.
For more details along with details of the text-to-speech and instant translation options, see our PressReader catalogue at: www.pressreader.com

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