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Stella Wisdom

Stella Wisdom

Stella Wisdom is a Digital Curator at the British Library; promoting new methods of research using born digital and digitised collections. She is interested in creative innovation and partnerships, especially regarding games and digital storytelling in libraries. She has collaborated widely, with The National Videogame Museum, International Games Week in Libraries, Cityread London, and on research projects with University College London’s Institute of Education and Lancaster University with the Chronotopic Cartographies project and Litcraft initiative.
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cat-foot

Cats aren’t known for clomping around like Clydesdales; they’re stealthy. That’s why cat-footing refers to walking that’s more subtle and graceful than that of the average oaf. In Harry L. Wilson’s 1916 book Somewhere in Red Gap, this word appears in characteristic fashion: “…I didn’t yell any more. I cat-footed. And in a minute I was up close.” Cat-footing is a requirement for a career as a cat burglar. Credits to Mark Peters.

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