helengittos.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Medieval History; parent involved in the Independent Inquiry into Maternity Services at East Kent
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And more detail in this second statement: thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...
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It will enable faster detection of when problems are emerging. More details here in evidence given to the Thirlwall Inquiry: thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u... 2/
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Good piece by @hannahsbee.bsky.social on today's announcements. Has been reassuring to see close up that 'Ministers... had been “underwhelmed by the proposals that have that have come to us from the system itself for improvements in maternity services”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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Feels like it's going to be an exhausting new world of some amazing new opportunities amidst a daily grind of error and muddle. A sudden memory of John Gillingham checking the accuracy of his PhD students' every footnote!
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It fits with new civil servants telling me people in government are using AI all the time - & being pushed to. And with this from @jeremyhuntmp.bsky.social in yesterday's Times 'I have a research assistant & I have ChatGPT... It makes writing a book a hell of a lot quicker'... but, at what price!
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Sh! I've got a secret to tell ya. I'll just whisper it... both my brother and I disliked Coco Pops so much, my dad was left to them. That awful puddle of brown milk. Our fights were Frosties fights... 😋
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I read far more fiction than non-fiction outside of work stuff.
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Amidst growing calls for a national, or four nations, maternity inquiry, I'm genuinely interested in whether there are examples of inquiries that have led to long-term, meaningful change.
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I hadn't really thought about it like that; the hundred stone, minster in Alfred's will, that C7th lathe-turned baluster shaft my dad found... whereas greystone Ilchester-in-the-marsh...
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PS - & specially for @adamchapman.bsky.social, Chris Lewis said Exon Domesday includes a list of expenses inc. for hiring a scribe from Ilchester - the idea of scribes-for-hire on the streets of Ilchester is quite something! But I can't find discussion of it in the book.
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but 'speaks to', though, surely we can't have 'speaks to'...
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Did anyone really think liturgical history was niche? 😜
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And you can watch the electrifying moment when Susan Rankin linked liturgy and law, Winchester Troper and Great Domesday, in the last 30 seconds of her final 2022 Lyell lecture: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/assimilation...
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One of the most astonishing things about this discovery is that it was arrived at independently by Susan Rankin, working with Michael Gullick, on C11th liturgical music - as well as by Stephen, Julia & Chris working on the Exon Domesday project. musicatcambridge.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/s...
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We can now be pretty sure who it was that assembled and wrote most of Great Domesday. That man was Gerard, chancellor of England, cantor of Winchester Cathedral, nephew of Bishop Wakelin: liturgist and singer as well as scribe and administrator. What a time to be a medievalist!
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New: The C14 dates for the cremated bone in the Bromeswell bucket have just been announced - c. 430-550 - so rather earlier than some might have thought. I'd better get on my train to Suffolk! www.youtube.com/live/y47OMWN...
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Yet to be properly determined, I think. There have long been noticed connections between sculpture in Armenia & the British Isles, maybe less so Georgia. But the nature of the relationships are not really clear at all.
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This piece, for example, could almost be Northumbrian but is from Bolnesi, Georgia. @ascorpus.bsky.social
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Alice's mum: 'a wounded animal would have received safer, more attentive, compassionate care at the vets than Alice received on this ward... It does not cost NHS hospitals & their staff more to be kind, compassionate and diligent within their duties.'
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This is the new book by Lawrence Nees on 'the development of the new phenomenon of the illuminated book, which innovatively introduced colourful large letters and ornamental frames as guides for the reader's access to the text.... Tracing their surprising origins within late Roman reading practices'
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Thanks so much, Clare.
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Do you know where it is/ can you point me to a link please? I don't think it's in the corpus and I'm struggling to find it. Is it in Liverpool Museum?
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Thanks @downham.bsky.social. Ah, yes. I'm sure there's a few more like that I'm missing.
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Lothar in his psalter, made in Aachen c. 840-855, but perhaps depicting something more like Dagobert's throne. Such evocative objects.
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I don't know of any but I need to read this book properly, which I haven't yet done.
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And then there's this one - in St Mark's Venice. Carved from a single block of Alabaster, perhaps made in Alexandria in the sixth century. Images from The Treasury of San Marco (1984).
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So many thrones in 7th and 8th century Northumbria (and environs)! All images from @ascorpus.bsky.social. What am I missing?
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Better photos on the Parthenon's website. The idea that Monkwearmouth and the Parthenon were part of the same thought-world in the C6th/7th ... www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/throne
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If anyone knows good comparisons, I'd be interested. This is a C2nd or 3rd BCE marble throne, reused in the Parthenon as an episcopal throne when it was a church in the sixth century AD - i.e. these lion arms are part of the same thought-world as the Northumbrian ones...
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Rosemary Cramp was unequivocal: 'The pair could be reconstructed into a more elaborate arrangement than anything which survives elsewhere for its period'... 'This set, when complete, would have formed the only composition we can compare with Early Christian work on the continent'. 2/