REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library author talk - Ruth Binney on 'Life with Plants' This week (Tuesday 10 February), the Friends of Rhiwbina Library welcomed author and gardener Ruth Binney to give a talk about her life and the books she has written about plants, gardening, and the gardening communities she has been a part of. She brought us back in time to just after the war, discussing her childhood growing up in Tiverton, Devon with her father as a housemaster at a boys' school. This was...

REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library author talk - Professor John Aggleton on 'Memory: Losing, Using, and Improving' Professor John Aggleton of Cardiff University joined the Friends of Rhiwbina Library, this week (Tuesday 9 December) to speak about the brain and memory; how we use it, lose it, and ways to improve it. A world expert in neuroscience , John’s research has expanded the scientific community's (and now the local Rhiwbina community's!) understanding of how memory is stored in the...

REPORT: Friends of Rhiwbina Library author talk - Professor Richard Thomas on 'Reporting Elections: Rethinking the Logic of Campaign Coverage' Professor Richard Thomas joined the Friends of Rhiwbina Library this week (Tuesday 11 November) to give an engaging talk on how politics and general elections are covered by journalists and news organisations. A professor at Swansea University and head of its School of Culture and Communication, Richard has written extensively about bias and...