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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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...
'Standing in this Place' by Rachel Carter. Collin Street, Nottingham, installed 2025. Images Helen Chester.
In honour of unnamed women who were the driving force of the cotton industry in the C18th & C19th. An enslaved Black woman in the American cotton fields & a white woman in a Midlands mill.
In honour of unnamed women who were the driving force of the cotton industry in the C18th & C19th. An enslaved Black woman in the American cotton fields & a white woman in a Midlands mill.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
'Standing in this Place' by Rachel Carter. Collin Street, Nottingham, installed 2025. Images Helen Chester.
In honour of unnamed women who were the driving force of the cotton industry in the C18th & C19th. An enslaved Black woman in the American cotton fields & a white woman in a Midlands mill.
In honour of unnamed women who were the driving force of the cotton industry in the C18th & C19th. An enslaved Black woman in the American cotton fields & a white woman in a Midlands mill.
It's *such* a gorgeous statue. The details. artuk.org/discover/art...
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It's *such* a gorgeous statue. The details. artuk.org/discover/art...
Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (1858–1928). Sculpture by Hazel Reeves. St Peter's Square, Manchester, installed 2018.
Image: Ben Williams.
So. Much. Crowdfunding.
artuk.org/discover/art...
www.womanchesterstatue.org
Image: Ben Williams.
So. Much. Crowdfunding.
artuk.org/discover/art...
www.womanchesterstatue.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (1858–1928). Sculpture by Hazel Reeves. St Peter's Square, Manchester, installed 2018.
Image: Ben Williams.
So. Much. Crowdfunding.
artuk.org/discover/art...
www.womanchesterstatue.org
Image: Ben Williams.
So. Much. Crowdfunding.
artuk.org/discover/art...
www.womanchesterstatue.org
Mary Anning, palaeontologist (1799–1847). Sculpture by Denise Dutton. Long Entry, Lyme Regis, Dorset, installed 2022. www.maryanningrocks.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Mary Anning, palaeontologist (1799–1847). Sculpture by Denise Dutton. Long Entry, Lyme Regis, Dorset, installed 2022. www.maryanningrocks.co.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.
licoricia.org/licoricia-of...
licoricia.org/licoricia-of...
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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.org/licoricia-of...
licoricia.org/licoricia-of...
Aphra Benn, writer, (1640–1689) by Christine Charlesworth,
High Street, Canterbury, installed February 2025.
Image Mike Longhurst / Art UK.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
artuk.org/discover/art...
High Street, Canterbury, installed February 2025.
Image Mike Longhurst / Art UK.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
artuk.org/discover/art...
November 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Aphra Benn, writer, (1640–1689) by Christine Charlesworth,
High Street, Canterbury, installed February 2025.
Image Mike Longhurst / Art UK.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
artuk.org/discover/art...
High Street, Canterbury, installed February 2025.
Image Mike Longhurst / Art UK.
artuk.org/discover/sto...
artuk.org/discover/art...
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...
Superb maps of Oxford's medieval Jewish heritage: www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewis...
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Superb maps of Oxford's medieval Jewish heritage: www.oxfordjewishheritage.co.uk/oxford-jewis...
Licoricia is the subject of this new, illustrated, biography: licoricia.org/our-book/
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Licoricia is the subject of this new, illustrated, biography: licoricia.org/our-book/
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.
The pleasure is mine!
Love the @timeteam.bsky.social graphics. Eadwold, drawn by Neil Emmanuel @neeneecreative5791, as he's never been seen before...
Love the @timeteam.bsky.social graphics. Eadwold, drawn by Neil Emmanuel @neeneecreative5791, as he's never been seen before...
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The pleasure is mine!
Love the @timeteam.bsky.social graphics. Eadwold, drawn by Neil Emmanuel @neeneecreative5791, as he's never been seen before...
Love the @timeteam.bsky.social graphics. Eadwold, drawn by Neil Emmanuel @neeneecreative5791, as he's never been seen before...
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/...
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And his fundamental, revisionary work on one of the most influential compilations of liturgical texts from the central middle ages.
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
And his fundamental, revisionary work on one of the most influential compilations of liturgical texts from the central middle ages.
...an article on Ste Foy, Conques argues for 'a three-dimensionality to the festal Divine Office, where the cumulative effect of music, text, delivery, & framing veer... more closely towards [what] we might call ‘drama’ than to liturgical prayer as conventionally defined' doi.org/10.3390/arts...
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
...an article on Ste Foy, Conques argues for 'a three-dimensionality to the festal Divine Office, where the cumulative effect of music, text, delivery, & framing veer... more closely towards [what] we might call ‘drama’ than to liturgical prayer as conventionally defined' doi.org/10.3390/arts...
... and a chapter just out in Johanna Dale's new @britishacademy.bsky.social book on St Oswald.
'particular institutions or social groups [n]ever possessed a single, static understanding of who medieval saints were.'
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
'particular institutions or social groups [n]ever possessed a single, static understanding of who medieval saints were.'
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
... and a chapter just out in Johanna Dale's new @britishacademy.bsky.social book on St Oswald.
'particular institutions or social groups [n]ever possessed a single, static understanding of who medieval saints were.'
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
'particular institutions or social groups [n]ever possessed a single, static understanding of who medieval saints were.'
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Henry's most recent article argues that 'Fleury’s elaborate Night Office chants aligned the worship of Saint
Benedict with the discipline of watching the night sky'. online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-a...
Benedict with the discipline of watching the night sky'. online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-a...
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Henry's most recent article argues that 'Fleury’s elaborate Night Office chants aligned the worship of Saint
Benedict with the discipline of watching the night sky'. online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-a...
Benedict with the discipline of watching the night sky'. online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-a...
... 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.
That's fab! It's wonderfully democratic and engaging in its location in the streetscape - that domestic pedestal set straight on the floor. Set apart but not unreachable. Photo from: manchesterhistory.net/manchester/s...
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That's fab! It's wonderfully democratic and engaging in its location in the streetscape - that domestic pedestal set straight on the floor. Set apart but not unreachable. Photo from: manchesterhistory.net/manchester/s...
Flowers for Emily Pankhurst on this monument to her in central Manchester; a startling joy to encounter on a busy urban street. 'Rise up, women' (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928) sculpted by @hazelreeves.bsky.social.
November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Flowers for Emily Pankhurst on this monument to her in central Manchester; a startling joy to encounter on a busy urban street. 'Rise up, women' (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928) sculpted by @hazelreeves.bsky.social.
And another Anglo-Saxon cross pendant, this one from near Leeds, gilded silver, and probably eighth century. finds.org.uk/database/ima...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
And another Anglo-Saxon cross pendant, this one from near Leeds, gilded silver, and probably eighth century. finds.org.uk/database/ima...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This was fun! Interviewing @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social about his new novel The House of Wolf. Alfred, Asser and Wessex as you've not thought of them before, with an actor's ear for dialogue, and some brilliantly creative imaginings of C9th performance culture.
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This was fun! Interviewing @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social about his new novel The House of Wolf. Alfred, Asser and Wessex as you've not thought of them before, with an actor's ear for dialogue, and some brilliantly creative imaginings of C9th performance culture.
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
This looks super. A great cast list for volume 2 on the medieval period including @robin-f.bsky.social .social and @tobyfmartin.bsky.social.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This looks super. A great cast list for volume 2 on the medieval period including @robin-f.bsky.social .social and @tobyfmartin.bsky.social.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...