Sheila Bennett

Head of Libraries Strategy and Delivery, DCMS. Ex-Cabinet Office, GDS & LBBromley. Like history, lit, theatre and family. My views, not my employer's.

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@macinnes_neil @GMLibraries Do you want to do a blog for us?

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@AmandaC42230148 Green Knowe

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@librarychampion @readingagency @Sarah_Crown Why does anyone see Heathcliff as a romantic figure? He is appalling

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@librarychampion @readingagency @Sarah_Crown The latter 2 I agree with, but not Middlemarch. Maybe when you are older Sue! (I hated it as a teen but came round to it years later)

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@macinnes_neil @MancLibraries @ManCityCouncil @hacking4chorltz Please pass congrats onto all those involved from @DcmsLibraries team

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@maithilireads 'Reader, I married him'

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@goodreads Primarily book reviews these days. Or looking at my library catalogues (physical and digital) to see what is available from certain authors or in certain genres.

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@LouisMMCoiffait @TheLondonLib @SenateHouseLib @LondonU @pm_vollmer @UKHouseofLords @RebeccaGediking @peterbundey @GLL_UK Just down the road from me - you should have called in!

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@TKMaxx_UK - excrable customer service in Eltham branch just now - clashing advice on replacing a faulty product, wasted journey, and supervisor who did not have any concept of customer service but just kept robotically repeating 'its company policy'. How can you put this right?

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@Memeulous Bath Olivers - was gutted to hear that they have been discontinued. Easily the best biscuit to show off fabulous cheeses

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@LeilaniDowding @easyJet That's absurd!

[North Yorkshire Archives @nyccarchives]

Why not pop in and see our Treasures foyer exhibition, celebrating 75 years of Archives in #NorthYorkshire - 11 April to 27 June, free to view, each Tuesday to Friday, 9.30am-4pm 🗺️

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@AmbJapanUK You all look so smart. Hope you had a great time.

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@wylie_alan Oh Alan, that last bit's hard isn't it? Same sort of thing with my Dad. I consoled myself with the thought that, even when he couldn't quite work out who I was, he knew there was someone there who was spending time with him and with love.

[Ed Jewell @edward_jewell]

Great to see @JerseyLibrary's exhibition of former Chief Librarian, Ash Dickinson's work feature in today's @JEPnews. Ash and his wife Eva were deported to Germany in 1942, returning to the island in 1945. #Liberation80 #LiberationDay

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@AmbJapanUK Butter (lots of it). I like a scraping of gentleman's relish too.
But I'm sure that Paddington will have loved marmalade on his!

[Neil MacInnes OBE @macinnes_neil]

New Job Opportunity – Central Library Manager https://t.co/Knbwz03JXS

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@FoWHLNW6 @CamdenCouncil Thanks for letting me come along - a lovely event and wonderful to see the library looking so good.

[LGA Culture & Sport @LGAculturesport]

Deadline for responses to Arts Council England Review extended until 30 June

https://t.co/nQSvDmDpO0

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@macinnes_neil Norty