Latest news and events
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Summer fun for kids
The Summer Reading Challenge is now in full swing – but you can join at the library right up to Saturday 3 September. Children aged four-12 get a special wallet, stickers to collect and – if they… Read more
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Reading Group: Night Train
Thursday 10 August, 6.30pm This month’s book is Night Train (1997) by Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, who became Sir Martin just before he died this year. It’s a comedy parody of American detective novels. (Female)… Read more
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Mrs Meredith and the Convict Laundries of Vauxhall and Stockwell
On May 22nd Naomi Clifford, a historian from our community well known to Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library, will be discussing her recently published book Out of the Shadows This is a collection of essays… Read more
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“If trees could tell stories” – the second local nature and heritage walk
May 15th will see the second of the series of guided local nature and heritage walks setting off from Tate South Lambeth Library. The walk includes a tour and visit to ’Roots & Shoots’, an inspirational long-established… Read more
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Celebrate Portugal’s National Day at the library in Little Portugal
On Saturday 10 June from 10am-4pm, Tate South Lambeth Library will have something for all ages – festivities, food, music and fun for all the family in an international celebration for the Portuguese community. Activities all day,… Read more
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Archives, coronations and celebrations – the first in a programme of local history walks
May 2nd will see the first of a series of guided local history walks setting off from Tate South Lambeth Library. This walk includes a guided tour of the Lambeth Palace Archives and a visit to the… Read more
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Part police procedural and part black comedy – May’s reading group book
Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday May 11th at 6.30 to 8pm. This month we’ll be discussing The Trees by Percival Everett. A series of brutal murders take place in a small town… Read more
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“A rip-roaring, full-bodied riff on sex, secrecy and family”
Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday 13th April from 6.30- 8pm. This month we’ll be discussing Mr Loverman by Bernardino Evaristo A story set in Britain’s older Caribbean community, which shows how people… Read more
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The library celebrates LGBTQ+ History Month
February will see two special events at the library to mark LGBTQ+ History Month – a fair and a film screening Read more
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“A love story and a lament” – this month’s Reading Group book
Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday February 14th at 6.30 to 8pm. This month the book we’ll be discussing is Trumpet, the first novel by Jackie Kay, Scotland’s Makar (national poet) and winner… Read more
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The story of the writer of a best-selling “immoral novel”
Simon Keable-Elliott talks about his recently published biography of his grandfather on Wednesday January 18th at 7pm ( doors open at 6.30) Slated by critics, dubbed ‘utterly immoral’ by F Scott Fitzgerald and mocked in The Great Gatsby,… Read more
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A father confronts the truth of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries
Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday January 12th at 6.30 to 8pm. This month the book we’ll be discussing is Small Things like These, the Booker prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan. … Read more