John-Mark Philo

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-focus

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!

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/…

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)

@HRMcCabe Thank you, Helen, that's really useful. I will take a look!

@JM_Philo It sounds like what might have previously been a network grant. Have a look at eligibility for Curiosity - your EU libraries might be eligible partners, even if they aren't HEIs.

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? 🌏🤔📚

@HRMcCabe one would hope! not quite sure where it would fit with their current 'opportunities'. one challenge is that libraries in the eu are considered educational institutions (because that is what they are...) whereas not sure this is a given in the UK.

@JM_Philo AHRC?

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.

#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…

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/…

The @guardian wants to hear your views on which libraries are important to you and why #5916475" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/books/article/…

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-laun…

✨📖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!

@manymanyplies And he wrote the series from a Venetian jail [!]

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...