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Morrab Library, Morrab Gardens, Penzance, Cornwall TR18 4DA

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The most special books in our collection are usual

The most special books in our collection are usually locked away, available to view by appointment, but rarely seen. This Thursday (30th November) we are holding an Open Day, where some of these books will be on display including works by Dickens, Spenser and Milton as well as important and rare Cornish volumes. This is an opportunity to get to know about some of the important and special items we care for.

The event is free, just pop into the library between 10am - 3pm on Thursday. A number of our titles are in need of conservation, so if you are inspired to make a donation towards the care of these incredible collections, we would be very grateful. Find out more on our website (link in bio)

#loveindependentlibraries #librarytreasures #librarybooks

Meet our new artists in residence, Rebecca Harvey

Meet our new artists in residence, Rebecca Harvey and Lucy Sparrow.

Their joint residency is titled “Revealing Morrab Library: Poetry & Porcelain” and will draw from their respective disciplines- Rebecca works with porcelain and Lucy is a poet.

They are both library members and their creative affinity has manifested in, as Lucy describes, “a collaboration of porcelain and poetry”.

Find out more in their blog (link in bio), or pop in on the morning of 15th December to meet them both.

#Artist-in-residence #ArtInTheLibrary #Porcelain #Poetry

Looking for Christmas gift or stocking filler idea

Looking for Christmas gift or stocking filler ideas? We might have the solution.

Gift memberships, art, maps, cards, pens and more. And you'll be supporting our library too!

Details are on our website (link in bio).

#LovePenzance #ChristmasShopping #ChristmasGiftIdeas #SupportYourLibrary #SupportLocal

It's 'Stir Up Sunday' this weekend. We've shared i

It's 'Stir Up Sunday' this weekend. We've shared it before, but we just love this photo of the Richards family stirring the Christmas Pudding in 1934. Some traditions are just worth keeping aren't they?

#ExploreYourArchive #PhotoFriday #StirUpSunday #ChristmasPudding #PhotoArchives #LocalHistory #Family #Baking #Traditions

This year’s Morrab Library Christmas Cards are n

This year’s Morrab Library Christmas Cards are now on sale, featuring a beautiful image by our own staff member Harriet.

You can purchase them from reception at £1.00 per card or £4.75 for a pack of 5. All proceeds go to the care of the Library.

#ChristmasCards #LoveYourLibrary #LovePenzance

Illustration: @harrietjadeharrow

What a glorious sunrise from the library window th

What a glorious sunrise from the library window this morning!

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Prolific Cornish novelist and author of the Oxford

Prolific Cornish novelist and author of the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, or Q as he was known, was born on this day in 1863.

Our library has the full set of Q's works available to borrow from our Cornish room, so pop in for a browse.

#Q #ArthurQuillerCouch #LoveYourLibrary #RareBooks #EnglishVerse #CornishWriters

Another exciting donation to the collection from o

Another exciting donation to the collection from our brilliant member and renowned academic Dr Michelle Brown.

Bede and the Theory of Everything
investigates the life and world of Bede (c. 673–735), the foremost scholar of the early Middle Ages and ‘the father of English history’. Among his multitude of achievements, Bede calculated the first tide tables and the cycle of Easter dates.

Now available to borrow from the library.

#Bede #VenerableBede #MiddleAges #NewBooks #LibraryBooks

We are well and truly underway and the library is

We are well and truly underway and the library is buzzing! Join the fun until 2.00pm...

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