Helen Gittos
@helengittos.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Medieval History; parent involved in the Independent Inquiry into Maternity Services at East Kent.
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Certainly also happening in Sciences - see e.g. Leicester and geology bsky.app/profile/thef...
My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Certainly also happening in Sciences - see e.g. Leicester and geology bsky.app/profile/thef...
Usborne have been producing fantastic childrens' books in recent times.
November 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Usborne have been producing fantastic childrens' books in recent times.
Look how far they've got...!
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Look how far they've got...!
And then there's this. An early medieval linen pillow with decorative ends. Also from the Caucasus and @metmuseum.org. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And then there's this. An early medieval linen pillow with decorative ends. Also from the Caucasus and @metmuseum.org. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
... and a pair of early medieval fingerless gloves some 1200 years old! #andiamamaterialgirl
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
... and a pair of early medieval fingerless gloves some 1200 years old! #andiamamaterialgirl
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
... which led me on a tangent to this lovely wooden box with a sliding lid, dating from the seventh-ninth centuries from the Caucasus & now @metmuseum.org.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
... which led me on a tangent to this lovely wooden box with a sliding lid, dating from the seventh-ninth centuries from the Caucasus & now @metmuseum.org.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
More, much more from @fotofacade.bsky.social on his blog here: www.digest.andymarshall.co/loci-10/
📍Loci: Hiraeth
The landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time—the valley bottoms out into flattened serenity, as the Berwyn hills rise like embattlements pitched against any sense of doubt as to...
www.digest.andymarshall.co
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
More, much more from @fotofacade.bsky.social on his blog here: www.digest.andymarshall.co/loci-10/
And this too! Wow @fotofacade.bsky.social: you've outdone even yourself 😍
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
And this too! Wow @fotofacade.bsky.social: you've outdone even yourself 😍
Reposting because just about to talk about this in a lecture. Such evocative stuff.
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposting because just about to talk about this in a lecture. Such evocative stuff.