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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NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social
St Eadwold as he's never been seen before! Some of the graphics commissioned by @timeteam.bsky.social. These were drawn by Neil Emmanuel for the special episode on Cerne Abbey. 👇😜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
St Eadwold as he's never been seen before! Some of the graphics commissioned by @timeteam.bsky.social. These were drawn by Neil Emmanuel for the special episode on Cerne Abbey. 👇😜
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
And this is why it matters that lessons *are* learned when things go wrong... and that @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social journalists like @jamesmelley.bsky.social & Alison Holt are able to conduct lengthy, detailed, complex and committed work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hospital failings continued after Alice Figueiredo death, leaked documents show
Four months after a young woman died in a mental health unit, another patient tried to harm herself in similar circumstances, leaked documents show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
And this is why it matters that lessons *are* learned when things go wrong... and that @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social journalists like @jamesmelley.bsky.social & Alison Holt are able to conduct lengthy, detailed, complex and committed work.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
3 seasons digging, 2 summers filming, 1 forgotten groundplan of a medieval abbey, hints at Aelfric's Anglo-Saxon minster, @hugh-willmott.bsky.social gesticulating like a pro, me wielding a trowel, Martin Papworth @nationaltrust.org.uk, Walter the cat & Kate Adie...🧐👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
3 seasons digging, 2 summers filming, 1 forgotten groundplan of a medieval abbey, hints at Aelfric's Anglo-Saxon minster, @hugh-willmott.bsky.social gesticulating like a pro, me wielding a trowel, Martin Papworth @nationaltrust.org.uk, Walter the cat & Kate Adie...🧐👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
Is this a golden age of sculptures of, and by, women?
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish business women (d. 1277) & her youngest son, Asser. Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley, Jewry Street, Winchester (Hampshire) installed in 2022. Photo: Pat Goodall / Art UK.
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish business women (d. 1277) & her youngest son, Asser. Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley, Jewry Street, Winchester (Hampshire) installed in 2022. Photo: Pat Goodall / Art UK.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Is this a golden age of sculptures of, and by, women?
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish business women (d. 1277) & her youngest son, Asser. Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley, Jewry Street, Winchester (Hampshire) installed in 2022. Photo: Pat Goodall / Art UK.
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish business women (d. 1277) & her youngest son, Asser. Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley, Jewry Street, Winchester (Hampshire) installed in 2022. Photo: Pat Goodall / Art UK.
Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant.
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
The latest @timeteam.bsky.social feature length episode focusing on our excavations at Cerne Abbey has gone live. It's fantastic to see the work we've been doing over the last couple of years shared with everyone!
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The latest @timeteam.bsky.social feature length episode focusing on our excavations at Cerne Abbey has gone live. It's fantastic to see the work we've been doing over the last couple of years shared with everyone!
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
This forthcoming book from @lollardfish.bsky.social looks good: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This forthcoming book from @lollardfish.bsky.social looks good: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8
The Amos Review will be visiting @ekhuft.bsky.social next week; the invitation to families to attend two listening sessions next Tuesday was posted on the Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership Facebook page 2 days ago... where very few will see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
East Kent parents asked to speak to maternity investigation
Helen Gittos who lost her baby Harriett says engagement may be
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The Amos Review will be visiting @ekhuft.bsky.social next week; the invitation to families to attend two listening sessions next Tuesday was posted on the Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership Facebook page 2 days ago... where very few will see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.
'We've spent the last two years trying to investigate our own child's death, rather than ... recovering, or trying to rebuild something of our lives.' 'The list of what went wrong is long.' More from Victoria McDonald @channel4news.bsky.social on maternity at the JR.
www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...
www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...
Oxford University Hospitals: Couple called scandal-hit NHS trust 44 times for scan
Oxford University Hospitals trust, at the centre of a maternity scandal involving dozens of families, is facing further questions over its antenatal scanning policy.
www.channel4.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
'We've spent the last two years trying to investigate our own child's death, rather than ... recovering, or trying to rebuild something of our lives.' 'The list of what went wrong is long.' More from Victoria McDonald @channel4news.bsky.social on maternity at the JR.
www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...
www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...
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'It is also looking to cut its undergraduate nursing courses in child health and mental health. Theology, education, microbiology and agriculture will be affected, alongside a master’s in social work....The courses will be suspended from 10 November.' 2/3
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'It is also looking to cut its undergraduate nursing courses in child health and mental health. Theology, education, microbiology and agriculture will be affected, alongside a master’s in social work....The courses will be suspended from 10 November.' 2/3
I'm lucky to have worked with one of the many brilliant people in these departments. Henry Parkes in Music is one of the cleverest, most insightful and inspirational historians I know - and one of the finest teachers too. Don't waste such talent @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm lucky to have worked with one of the many brilliant people in these departments. Henry Parkes in Music is one of the cleverest, most insightful and inspirational historians I know - and one of the finest teachers too. Don't waste such talent @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.
'The antiphoner notebook'! How cool is that 😍
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
'The antiphoner notebook'! How cool is that 😍
Indescribably awful.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Indescribably awful.
A joint report by @hannahsbee.bsky.social &
@channel4news.bsky.social on maternity services at the JR in Oxford. 'I wanted to make a will,' Gothami says. 'I thought I’d die.'
'I did as a last resort this to protect my reputation, my livelihood & my patients.' www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
@channel4news.bsky.social on maternity services at the JR in Oxford. 'I wanted to make a will,' Gothami says. 'I thought I’d die.'
'I did as a last resort this to protect my reputation, my livelihood & my patients.' www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A joint report by @hannahsbee.bsky.social &
@channel4news.bsky.social on maternity services at the JR in Oxford. 'I wanted to make a will,' Gothami says. 'I thought I’d die.'
'I did as a last resort this to protect my reputation, my livelihood & my patients.' www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
@channel4news.bsky.social on maternity services at the JR in Oxford. 'I wanted to make a will,' Gothami says. 'I thought I’d die.'
'I did as a last resort this to protect my reputation, my livelihood & my patients.' www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...
Reposted by Helen Gittos
New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.
I've heard and read many awful birth stories but this from the JR in Oxford is truly dire: 'Over 4 days things went from uncomfortable to haunting...ignored, belittled, accused of lying...put on an induction drip & left...[no] monitor[ing] for hours...'
www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/someb...
www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/someb...
'Somebody dumped my baby's lifeless, grey body on my chest', says Banbury birth trauma mum
A Banbury mum who suffered three days in a ‘hell hole’ where staff ‘had to be threatened’ to resuscitate her baby says she is exhausted by post traumatic stress.
www.banburyguardian.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I've heard and read many awful birth stories but this from the JR in Oxford is truly dire: 'Over 4 days things went from uncomfortable to haunting...ignored, belittled, accused of lying...put on an induction drip & left...[no] monitor[ing] for hours...'
www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/someb...
www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/someb...
... starring @sarahsemple.bsky.social and Chris Ferguson on new work at Yeavering - and the Ad Gefrin museum.
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
... starring @sarahsemple.bsky.social and Chris Ferguson on new work at Yeavering - and the Ad Gefrin museum.