Tom Miles
@tommilesz.bsky.social
Metadata Coordinator for Sound & Vision based at the British Library. Aggregates sound and other content for Europeana.
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There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
Labour’s foreign interference inquiry needs to go *much* further
Plus: Mark Galeotti on Russia’s foreign political influence, the war in Ukraine and how crime organises the world
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy
New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...
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comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
comparia.beta.gouv.fr is so awesome for AI literacy - it makes it so easy to get a sense of different models, rate their responses on accuracy etc, then see what the models were and how they compare, plus the carbon footprint of your queries (as on the screenshot) #FF2025
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It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It's our favourite conference event in the calendar, and this year, we have the honour of hosting it @BritishLibrary! Fantastic Futures 2025 covering all things AI for Libraries, Archives and Museums begins THIS WEEK! sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... #ff2025 #ai4lam
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 75,000 signatures! 🙏
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
LET’S KEEP GOING!
If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Universities are getting creative with clean energy ☀️🎓
As outdoor learning spaces grow, off-grid solar furniture - think solar-powered benches, tables and charging stations- is becoming a new kind of campus infrastructure.
It’s functional, sustainable and student-friendly 🤩
As outdoor learning spaces grow, off-grid solar furniture - think solar-powered benches, tables and charging stations- is becoming a new kind of campus infrastructure.
It’s functional, sustainable and student-friendly 🤩
Universities are turning solar furniture into campus infrastructure
As universities expand outdoor learning, off-grid solar furniture is emerging as a new class of campus infrastructure.
www.pv-magazine.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Universities are getting creative with clean energy ☀️🎓
As outdoor learning spaces grow, off-grid solar furniture - think solar-powered benches, tables and charging stations- is becoming a new kind of campus infrastructure.
It’s functional, sustainable and student-friendly 🤩
As outdoor learning spaces grow, off-grid solar furniture - think solar-powered benches, tables and charging stations- is becoming a new kind of campus infrastructure.
It’s functional, sustainable and student-friendly 🤩
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True. The fact that there are busloads of tourists in Stratford shows that culture is big business. Not supporting it isn't merely philistine; it's also bad economics.
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
True. The fact that there are busloads of tourists in Stratford shows that culture is big business. Not supporting it isn't merely philistine; it's also bad economics.
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Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...
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La justice belge condamne deux personnes pour détournement de fonds européens liés au groupe pro-Brexit de Nigel Farage
La justice belge condamne deux personnes pour détournement de fonds européens liés au groupe pro-Brexit de Nigel Farage | Euractiv FR
euractiv.fr
November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
La justice belge condamne deux personnes pour détournement de fonds européens liés au groupe pro-Brexit de Nigel Farage
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🔁 Glenn Micallef
Good morning from Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Today I’ll join Culture Ministers from across Europe and partners worldwide to discuss how we can support the recovery and protection of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
Because protecting culture is protecting democracy. 🇺🇦🎭
Good morning from Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Today I’ll join Culture Ministers from across Europe and partners worldwide to discuss how we can support the recovery and protection of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
Because protecting culture is protecting democracy. 🇺🇦🎭
November 4, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🔁 Glenn Micallef
Good morning from Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Today I’ll join Culture Ministers from across Europe and partners worldwide to discuss how we can support the recovery and protection of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
Because protecting culture is protecting democracy. 🇺🇦🎭
Good morning from Copenhagen 🇩🇰
Today I’ll join Culture Ministers from across Europe and partners worldwide to discuss how we can support the recovery and protection of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.
Because protecting culture is protecting democracy. 🇺🇦🎭
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📣 Funding opportunity 📣
Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.
Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.
Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
Apply for the 3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call: opening 3D cultural heritage to the public | Europeana PRO
Are you a professional or researcher working with 3D cultural heritage? Then apply for funding for a new Outreach Synergy Call, launched under the 3DBigDataS…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
📣 Funding opportunity 📣
Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.
Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
Are you a professional or researcher working with #3D cultural heritage? Apply now for the #3DBigDataSpace Outreach Synergy Call, which focuses on on transforming 3D heritage data into public-facing outreach experiences.
Get the full details & apply ➡️ bit.ly/3LrE8xP
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The Sumerian King List is one of the most famous objects in the Museum, and one of the most important records from ancient Mesopotamia.
It lists a succession of cities, their rulers and the length of their reigns from the beginning of time to around 1800 BCE.
It lists a succession of cities, their rulers and the length of their reigns from the beginning of time to around 1800 BCE.
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Sumerian King List is one of the most famous objects in the Museum, and one of the most important records from ancient Mesopotamia.
It lists a succession of cities, their rulers and the length of their reigns from the beginning of time to around 1800 BCE.
It lists a succession of cities, their rulers and the length of their reigns from the beginning of time to around 1800 BCE.
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We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We're very excited to have been shortlisted for an OpenUK award, in recognition of our amazing community of developers, managers, testers, curators, and translators. See you at the Oscars of Open Source! #openukawards @openuk.bsky.social
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⌛Time is running out for #CuriousCures!
Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.
📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725
Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.
📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725
October 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
⌛Time is running out for #CuriousCures!
Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.
📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725
Don't miss your chance to see these fascinating medieval medical books and manuscripts, which are rarely on display together.
📍Open 6 Dec 2025 at the UL
🔗Book your FREE ticket: https://loom.ly/kVqsPRY
Image: @caiuscollege.bsky.social, MS 336/725
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Great start to #KnowledgeIsHuman by Jimmy Wales: open knowledge is essential infrastructure. Every layer of knowledge in ecosystem is grounded in human effort - creating; sharing; synthesising; remixing; reusing. GLAMs, BBC, Wikimedia and us - we can all contribute
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October 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Great start to #KnowledgeIsHuman by Jimmy Wales: open knowledge is essential infrastructure. Every layer of knowledge in ecosystem is grounded in human effort - creating; sharing; synthesising; remixing; reusing. GLAMs, BBC, Wikimedia and us - we can all contribute
wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...
wikimedia.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery
Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.
A Brexit Party MEP.
A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:
"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."
This is a MASSIVE story
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
September 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/...
The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries
This post was written by Jenny Pearce, Senior Marketing Manager for LibraryOn at the British Library. 2025 sees the 175th anniversary of the Public Library Act 1850. The Act was an initial step in pro...
blogs.bl.uk
August 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Radical Act behind your local library: Celebrating 175 years of public libraries blogs.bl.uk/thenewsroom/...
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Today's #MastheadMonday is the Hackney & Kingsland Times (1862-63), which began life as the Kingsland Times & General Advertiser (1860-62), & covered local, national & international news. It is another London Local digitised by the BL & free to view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/kings...
July 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Today's #MastheadMonday is the Hackney & Kingsland Times (1862-63), which began life as the Kingsland Times & General Advertiser (1860-62), & covered local, national & international news. It is another London Local digitised by the BL & free to view: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/kings...