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Cultural Heart+Pioneering Dewsbury+Household Enquiry Form+Shared Lives+What's going on? Inspirational Council Employee + Castle Hill + Weekend Activities + Adult Social Care Inspirational council employee and care leaver graduates with first class honours degree A Kirklees Council employee and care leaver has graduated from Huddersfield University with a first class honours degree – and now she wants her story to inspire others. Read more Castle Hill calls for volunteer litter pickers Our Green Flag Award winning Castle Hill is asking willing volunteers to join us and help collect litter on Friday 16 August. Get involved What’s going on this weekend? 2-4 August 2019 We have some great events happening throughout Kirklees this weekend! Plan my weekend Tell us your experience of accessing information about your adult social care services Are you an adult carer or do you receive adult social care support in Kirklees? Do you sometimes find it difficult to access information about your adult social care and support? Kirklees Council Adult Social Care would like to hear about your experiences and how things could be improved. Complete the survey |  Privacy Policy We have taken the first step towards delivering the Cultural Heart We have taken our first step towards delivering The Huddersfield Blueprint after striking a deal with the owners of the Piazza Shopping Centre to purchase it. Find out the details Pioneering scheme for Dewsbury The iconic Grade 2 Listed Pioneer House in Dewsbury begins its next chapter, being brought back to life with Kirklees College taking over the former Co-op building from the council. What happens next? Completing a household enquiry form is NOT just about registering to vote The Household Enquiry Form is sent to every household to check whether current voter registration records are correct.  By law we have to do this every year – expect your form by the middle of July. Why do I need to complete it? Shared lives week recap June saw Shared Lives schemes across the country celebrating its unique service along with its fabulous carers and service users. Find out what went on What’s going on this weekend? 5-7 July 2019 We have some great events happening throughout Kirklees this weekend! Don’t forget to browse on our Community Directory for lots more ideas. Plan my weekend

Read Kirklees (July 2019): Reading books and cracking codes

Highlights Brochure: July - September 2019 Our latest highlights brochure is available to read online at Issuu.com You can also pick up a copy at any Kirklees library. For more details of what's on across Kirklees Libraries and to book tickets for any of the above events please go to: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kirkleeslibraries Writing: Making Your Mark A pop-up exhibition in partnership with the British Library & the Living Knowledge Network Perfect for families, the Writing: Making Your Mark display draws on the themes of a new British Library exhibition, which spans five millennia and five continents, exploring one of humankind’s greatest achievements—the act of writing. Through images of carved stone inscriptions, medieval manuscripts and early printed works, Writing: Making Your Mark will deconstruct the art of writing and consider its future in the digital age. Explore a themed selection of images and objects from the collections of Kirklees Libraries, Kirklees Museums and Galleries, the West Yorkshire Archive Service and Heritage Quay (the official archive of Huddersfield University). Follow our family trail around the library and make your own mark by creating stories from first lines contributed by writers in the Kirklees Author Forum Exchange. We will be building a programme of activities and talks throughout the Summer as the exhibition moves around Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Cleckheaton and Batley libraries. Cleckheaton Library from June 20th to July 9th Batley Library from July 11th to July 30th Huddersfield Local Studies Lunchtime Club Patrick Bronte and his time in Dewsbury and Hartshead In 2019 The Bronte Society are marking the life and legacy of the Reverend Patrick Bronte. Diane Fare from the Society will be talking about the father of Charlotte, Emily and Anne who spent time in the area at Dewsbury and Hartshead. Huddersfield Library Wednesday July 10th at 1.00 pm Refreshments available The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs The captivating story of cracking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This is a live screening of a talk given at the British Library. Ancient Egypt fascinated the ancient Greeks and Romans, including Alexander the Great. But no Greek or Roman could read the elaborate Egyptian hieroglyphs. For almost two millennia, the hieroglyphic script became a ‘lost language’, until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon Bonaparte’s soldiers in Egypt in 1799. Some highly intelligent scholars, including the British polymath Thomas Young, then tried to crack the code of the hieroglyphs with significant success, but without making the vital breakthrough. In 1822, Jean-François Champollion began to read the Egyptian obelisks in Rome and the Egyptian papyri in European collections. Then, with the backing of the French king, Champollion travelled to Egypt, sailed the Nile for a year, lived in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and made the voices of the pharaohs and their subjects speak. Without his revolutionary breakthrough, no one would have known the name of the gold-encased body found in the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922. Influential scholars often lead uneventful lives. Champollion’s life, by contrast, was dramatic and worthy of his Romantic contemporaries such as Byron. Like them, he lived to the full—forming undying friendships and rivalries, most notoriously with Young—and drove himself into an early grave. Today, Champollion is regarded as the founder of Egyptology, a national hero in France and one of the world’s greatest code-breakers Huddersfield Library Thursday July 11th 7.00pm - 8.30pm Space Chase: A Summer reading challenge Do you have children? Want to keep them reading over the Summer? The Summer Reading Challenge is back! For children aged 4 - 11. Join free from 13th July in any Kirklees Library. Visit the library at least 3 times over the school summer holidays and read as many library books as you can. Get stickers, prizes and a certificate and a medal too. Keep ypur telescopes peeled for events and workshops across Kirklees libraries this Summer. Libby by Overdrive (ebooks and audiobooks) Did you know that Kirklees libraries has a collection of almost 14,000 ebooks and audiobooks. Borrow them for free with your Kirklees library card and PIN. For more details ask at any Kirklees Library. View our latest Summer reading collection, along with details of how to download Libby, on our Overdrive page at: https://kirklees.overdrive.com/ PressReader (digital magazines and newspapers) Choose from over 7,000 national and international titles to read online or download for offline convenience. Free access with your Kirklees library card and PIN. Text-to-speech and instant translation options are also available. For more details ask at any Kirklees Library or visit PressReader at: https://www.pressreader.com/catalog Kids into reading too? Don't miss our library adventures bulletin. Sign me up

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Huddersfield Blueprint+Safeguarding Week+What's going on?

The Huddersfield Blueprint – A Decade Of Ambition We have launched The Huddersfield Blueprint – a ten-year £250million vision to create a thriving, modern-day town centre. See the plans Kirklees Safeguarding Week. ‘It’s everyone’s business’ Kirklees Safeguarding Week returns for a fourth year from Monday 24 to Friday 28 June 2019 as part of the West Yorkshire wide Safeguarding Week. What went on? What's going on this weekend? We have some great events happening throughout Kirklees this weekend! Plan my weekend |  Privacy Policy

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