New rules for Reform-run libraries after Pride row

We're not talking about Sainsbury's, we're talking about libraries, some of which do mark South Asian Heritage Month. Your suggestion was they didn't.

Reform in this case do plan to mark Armed Forces Day.

Libraries are a universal public service open to all without fear or favour. In my view (as a librarian) they most certainly are and should be politically neutral.

Sorry meant to quote this.

And actually public libraries were set up to provide working men with an alternative to the pub.

A lot of libraries exist because Andrew Carnegie paid for them. They should be politically neutral. I daresay Reform would be happy for displays on local suffrage history or the Peasants' Revolt. I have no objection and indeed, am happy to see to displays for Diwali and Hanukkah (my DC celebrate Diwali) but I want to see one for Easter and Christmas as well (not instead) and somehow I never do (though we do have Christmas lights but they are paid for by the shops, I think).

This is not accurate and a quick Google would tell you that Public Libraries Act 1850 - Wikipedia https://share.google/bO5alD2AqHI45B7Mq
The 1964 Act was not the first piece of legislation around free public libraries and the driver as I have said previously was Victorian concern over where and how working men were spending their free time.

And while Andrew Carnegie very generously funded the building of many libraries the local authority were expected to provide the ongoing funding.

But what do you teach in Black History Month? Until the 60s there were relatively small numbers of black people in the UK and many were transitory i.e. like Gandhi, they came to study. There is not a lot one can say about John Blanc, Henry VIII's trumpeter (I wonder where he learned to play the trumpet, now that is worth finding out!) or Belle, who was a relation of Lord Mansfield. The anti-slavery movement was driven by people like Wilberforce, though the work of Equiano is noteworthy and interesting. Any digging will produce the presumably problematic fact (if one is looking for positive stories) that countries in Africa were slaving long before the Atlantic Trade and continue to slave to this day, and that the eastern trade out of Zanzibar by Arabs makes the Atlantic Trade look humane. Certainly that is worth teaching to older students. We could look at the first Asian MPs to sit in the UK Parliament (a colonial subject could stand for the UK parliament if resident in Britain) and at the work of suffragists in India.