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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 20h

The Golden Rhinoceros and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 2d

Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 3d

Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...

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Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · 5d

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

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James Kenney @jfkenney.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 5d

#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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The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 6d

Using screengrabs not only allows you to select exact images but also provides a good defence for publication (under fair dealing or fair use), as opposed to published stills, which are stand-alone creative works i.e. you are quoting from a work rather than reproducing a work in full

Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 6d

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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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · Jan 15

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.

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 6d

Great news for many, but there's nothing wrong in paying for the BNA if you can. It's what enables more British Library newspapers to be preserved through digitisation, benefitting everyone

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 8d

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-...

Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 9d

The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 11d

Essential re-reading RIP Tony Harrison www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

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Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social · 20d

Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 14d

On a Kent country walk through Ryarsh and Birling

Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 15d

Why not buy your copy of the 836,103rd best-selling book on Amazon? www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 18d

It's good to be squeezed in among some great names

Sticking Place Books @stickingplacebk.bsky.social · 19d

Sticking Place Books.

From near-forgotten artists to living legends—this is where film history sticks.

Archiving the art, thought, and history of cinema.

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 21d

Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 24d

The Death of Tragedy and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 24d

My book Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image is cheapest from the publisher's site. £24 hardback, £20 paperback stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

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Silent London @silentlondon.bsky.social · 27d

LET ME DREAM AGAIN by @lukemckernan.bsky.social @stickingplacebk.bsky.social and an americano with oat milk #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 27d

Good choices

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 28d

There were at least two film camera operators on the Titanic. Shame that the sinking took place at night...

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 28d

"I'm looking for that Ingmar Bergman film where a vicar plays ludo with the Devil". Some entertaining footage enquiries from my time as a film archive cataloguer lukemckernan.com/2025/09/11/i...

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