Luke McKernan
@lukemckernan.bsky.social
Walking Europe's Last Wilderness and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
November 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Walking Europe's Last Wilderness and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
#Listeningto On Beacon Hill, the latest album from Anthony Moore. 'Caught', a re-imaging of his 45-year-old song 'Caught Being in Love' is a memory of an obsession to send shivers up any spine. My song of the year (probably) youtu.be/Qp6vO1WxJJs?...
Caught
YouTube video by Anthony Moore - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#Listeningto On Beacon Hill, the latest album from Anthony Moore. 'Caught', a re-imaging of his 45-year-old song 'Caught Being in Love' is a memory of an obsession to send shivers up any spine. My song of the year (probably) youtu.be/Qp6vO1WxJJs?...
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
Libraries coordinate on book disposal to safeguard rare texts www.timeshighereducation.com/news/librari...
Libraries coordinate on book disposal to safeguard rare texts
As shelves fill up and costs mount, new scheme allows librarians to discard underused books if more than seven copies exist elsewhere
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Libraries coordinate on book disposal to safeguard rare texts www.timeshighereducation.com/news/librari...
Extraordinary Islands and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Extraordinary Islands and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
Keeping posts going
Pity the poor British Library, an institution which simultaneously does such great things, yet at the same time seems to have utterly lost its way. The cyberattack of 2023 has created damage not on…
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November 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A post on keeping old blog posts alive, following the news that the British Library is having to come up with a solution for all of its past blogs, following the collapse of the Typepad platform lukemckernan.com/2025/11/11/k...
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When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
The first film made in Idaho was headed back to the big screen. Then DOGE intervened - High Country News
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When a large-scale restoration effort was halted by feds, history could not be forced back into the archives.
Ooh, bookmarks stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ooh, bookmarks stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
An epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor of mine, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
An epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor of mine, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
My latest blog post is an epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My latest blog post is an epic tale of a nineteenth-century ancestor, from wife sales in Staffordshire to the building of Salt Lake City, featuring Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, E.P. Thompson, Martin Scorsese and Chief Sagwitch of the Northwestern Soshone lukemckernan.com/2025/10/30/t...
The Buccaneers of America and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Buccaneers of America and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
The Director and a mug of tea #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Director and a mug of tea #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
I decided to measure our Eurostar journey using Strava. It has awarded me with 14 personal records. Quite pleased with my world record for the Marathon of 8mins 48 seconds.
October 20, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I decided to measure our Eurostar journey using Strava. It has awarded me with 14 personal records. Quite pleased with my world record for the Marathon of 8mins 48 seconds.
The Golden Rhinoceros and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
October 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Golden Rhinoceros and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
October 6, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
October 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...
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Today the Fedora podcast is 1-year-old. To celebrate, my brilliant birthday buddy, Professor Stacey Abbott (@profsaabbott.bsky.social), joins me to explore all things John Wick.
Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB
Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu
YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo
Podbean buff.ly/wk2LnPK
Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB
Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu
YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo
Podbean buff.ly/wk2LnPK
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Today the Fedora podcast is 1-year-old. To celebrate, my brilliant birthday buddy, Professor Stacey Abbott (@profsaabbott.bsky.social), joins me to explore all things John Wick.
Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB
Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu
YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo
Podbean buff.ly/wk2LnPK
Apple buff.ly/wDl4xnB
Spotify buff.ly/34bRrLu
YouTube buff.ly/QyLHaCo
Podbean buff.ly/wk2LnPK
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This month from Sticking Place Books!
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This month from Sticking Place Books!
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.
Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.
#Listeningto anything sung by Dagmar Krause, but especially this piece of gentle poetry youtu.be/vE-yHdbTEBg?...
Slow Moon's Rose
YouTube video by Slapp Happy - Topic
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October 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#Listeningto anything sung by Dagmar Krause, but especially this piece of gentle poetry youtu.be/vE-yHdbTEBg?...
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Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...
October 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...
One of the features I like in my new book Let Me Dream Again is use of DVD screengrabs to get telling images e.g. L'enfant sauvage, Great Expectations (Pip coming out of the mist), Masked and Anonymous, Dickensian stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
One of the features I like in my new book Let Me Dream Again is use of DVD screengrabs to get telling images e.g. L'enfant sauvage, Great Expectations (Pip coming out of the mist), Masked and Anonymous, Dickensian stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...
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This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
January 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
One of a number of obituaries for Guido Convents, promoter of African film, exceptional early film historian, and a good friend www.signis.world/headline/12-...
October 1, 2025 at 1:31 PM
One of a number of obituaries for Guido Convents, promoter of African film, exceptional early film historian, and a good friend www.signis.world/headline/12-...
The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking
September 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking