John-Mark Philo
@JM_Philo
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Member of the @UKYoungAcademy. Public libraries, asylum, & early modern travel.
Joined October 2019
If anyone was wondering how to say 'tortoise' in early-modern Scots, it's 'schell podocke' (literally 'shell frog'). You are welcome.
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“The British come here, they vomit in every corner, they go home”. 5 brand new library profiles for the new year, including Greece's first multi-lingual lending library.
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Libraries in Focus - In this section, you can read about some outstanding libraries, old and new, local and global, grand and humble alike. From the urban libraries today that support some of...
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RT @bcltuea: 📣 The John Dryden Translation Competition 2024-2025 is now open, with prizes awarded for the best unpublished literary transla….
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John Dryden Translation Competition John Dryden Introduction The John Dryden Translation Competition, in memory of the first British poet laureate John Dryden (1631–1700) – a literary critic,...
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Fancy joining us for the Global Library Seminar?. Today we'll be hearing from Dr Carlotta Barranu, Curator of the Royal Library at Windsor 🏰👑. 12.30pm (UK Time). If you'd like the link, just ping me a message!.
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RT @NicolaKelly: This case is getting almost no attention. Frank Ospina, an engineering graduate, was visiting his mum, who had settled i….
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The coroner examining the death of Frank Ospina said he had been let down by the state "in numerous ways".
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RT @JoanneCormac: Job alert! I'm looking for a #postdoctoral researcher to join my team on my #UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project: The….
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The Global Library Team were at Blickling Hall today to discuss some future events & workshops with their remarkable librarian, Rebecca Feakes. Watch this space! . (Collection includes an Aldine Sophocles, the Algonquian bible, & even some Robert Burns)
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Perhaps I am reading it incorrectly, but the Turing scheme seems to be aimed at students enrolled in school or university, as opposed to educators / public sector workers?.
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A question for research & library twitter: . If you wanted to apply for funding for UK librarians to travel, learn from & share best practice with their colleagues abroad (as E.U. librarians do via Erasmus+) what funding body could you apply to here in the UK? . 🌏🤔📚.
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Beyond the robots that deliver books, multilingualism as standard, and reading spaces that look like the foyer of a 5* hotel, the libraries of Helsinki are outstanding when it comes to public participation. They put the budget in the hands of the users! An actual dream.
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RT @SRSRenSoc: #CfP: 'Interconnections' #RenSoc25, Bristol, 2-5 July 2025! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables & seminars to reach th….
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RT @libsconnected: Important new analysis from @BBCNews reveals extent of library cuts since 2016. The poorest areas are around four times….
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Deprived communities lost more libraries since 2016 than richer areas did, the BBC finds
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RT @libsconnected: The @guardian wants to hear your views on which libraries are important to you and why
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We want to hear your views on which libraries are important to you and why – and any memories that have stayed with you
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The deadline for this is v close, but just in case you or someone you know might be interested: . Oxford’s refugee-led research hub offers 1-on-1 mentoring for postgraduate applications for people affected by displacement: .
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RT @BryonyCoombs: ✨📖Call for Papers!📖✨@EHopeDoherty & I are organising a conference on Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding, 5-6 Dece….
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A query for classicists: is there a kind of poetry in either Greek or Latin that imagines the final moments of famous historical figures? . This Scottish Neo-Latin, Seget, writes a series imagining the last thoughts of Brutus [both of 'em], Pompey, Cleopatra etc. .
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RT @lowles_nick: The Holiday Inn hotel is now on fire. Words cannot express my anger and horror at what I’m witnessing. I just hope there a….
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Having successfully [?] passed myself off as an Italian librarian, today, following some confusion over my surname*, I have infiltrated another expat library 🇫🇷🇬🇷. *"votre nom, Monsieur, pas votre domaine de recherche. "
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RT @JM_Philo: Pleased to announce (and not before time): . The Library is Open! . On the Global Library site, you'….
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The Global Library Project (1500–1700) examines how Anglo-Scots travelers in the early modern period contributed to the exchange and growth of knowledge through their journeys between libraries...
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