UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Member of the @UKYoungAcademy. Public libraries, asylum, & early modern travel.
Joined October 2019
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If anyone was wondering how to say 'tortoise' in early-modern Scots, it's 'schell podocke' (literally 'shell frog'). You are welcome.
“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...
globallibrary.net/libraries-…
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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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This case is getting almost no attention.
Frank Ospina, an engineering graduate, was visiting his mum, who had settled in the UK, and went to see prospective unis. After taking a job pot washing, he was detained. He then took his own life behind bars.
bbc.com/news/articles/cn8yn7…
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Job alert! I'm looking for a #postdoctoral researcher to join my team on my #UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project: The Cultural Legacies of the British #Empire: Classical #Music's Colonial History (1750-1900). The postdoc will research music-making in colonial #India.
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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#CfP: 'Interconnections' #RenSoc25, Bristol, 2-5 July 2025! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables & seminars to reach the brilliant Bristol team by 27 Sept 2024 #EarlyModernEvents #Twitterstorians #SRSlyGood rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11th…
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Important new analysis from @BBCNews reveals extent of library cuts since 2016. The poorest areas are around four times more likely to lose a local library than the richest. Our CEO @HunterIsobel is quoted bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9l…
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The @guardian wants to hear your views on which libraries are important to you and why theguardian.com/books/articl…
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Our Fall Classes are officially open for enrollment!! The offerings this term are ASTOUNDING!! Latin, Greek, Old English, OH MY!!!
If you don’t believe us, see them here for yourself: habesnelac.com/courses
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:
rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/rlrh-launc…
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✨📖Call for Papers!📖✨@EHopeDoherty & I are organising a conference on Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding, 5-6 December, University of Edinburgh, funder by @BritishAcademy_ ECR Network & including a workshop @CRC_EdUni. Please share & consider sending us an abstract!
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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The Holiday Inn hotel is now on fire. Words cannot express my anger and horror at what I’m witnessing. I just hope there are no residents inside the hotel
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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Pleased to announce (and not before time):
The Library is Open!
globallibrary.net
On the Global Library site, you'll find information about the historical and modern faces of the project, along with templates for public events & inclusive delivery
Please do share!
Pleased to announce (and not before time):
The Library is Open!
globallibrary.net
On the Global Library site, you'll find information about the historical and modern faces of the project, along with templates for public events & inclusive delivery
Please do share!
And for more info about We Need Books, "Greece’s first multilingual library and cultural center":
weneedbooks.org/
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