Rosalind Phillips-Solomon
@rphillips-solomon.bsky.social
🪦 medievalist & whale fan 🐋
Thinking about representations of death and grief in monuments and manuscripts - currently focussed on the tomb of the children of Anne de Bretagne 🪽
Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉
Writer @ Facsimile Finder 📜
🌸🪻🦋 (she/they)
Thinking about representations of death and grief in monuments and manuscripts - currently focussed on the tomb of the children of Anne de Bretagne 🪽
Virgin martyr obsessed 🦷👁️🐉
Writer @ Facsimile Finder 📜
🌸🪻🦋 (she/they)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lives-cut-... Very excited to be giving this lecture in March!
Lives Cut Short: The Tomb of Charles-Orland and Charles de France
Full title: 'A Monument to Lives Cut Short: The Tomb of Charles-Orland and Charles de France' by Rosalind Phillip-Solomon
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lives-cut-... Very excited to be giving this lecture in March!
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A monument to a woman: Mary Lewis, midwife, who had brought 716 children into the world. But described as 'meek and faithful, true and just'. Has anyone, ever, met a meek midwife?
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A monument to a woman: Mary Lewis, midwife, who had brought 716 children into the world. But described as 'meek and faithful, true and just'. Has anyone, ever, met a meek midwife?
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October's #MonumentoftheMonth is the heartrending tomb of two infant children of Anne, duchess of Brittany churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
October 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
October's #MonumentoftheMonth is the heartrending tomb of two infant children of Anne, duchess of Brittany churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
I wrote October's #monumentofthemonth blog post for @churchmonuments.bsky.social ! I'll be giving an online lecture on the tomb in March (also with the CMS), do come along if you found this interesting!
churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
The Tomb of the Children of Anne de Bretagne, Queen of France and Duchess of Brittany. – Church Monuments Society
churchmonumentssociety.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I wrote October's #monumentofthemonth blog post for @churchmonuments.bsky.social ! I'll be giving an online lecture on the tomb in March (also with the CMS), do come along if you found this interesting!
churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
churchmonumentssociety.org/monument-of-...
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#31DaysOfGraves Day2 Nautical: At Kilmartin Graveyard a grave marker with a carved dolphin and Latin text that translates as 'Calm in the midst of the waves'.
October 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
#31DaysOfGraves Day2 Nautical: At Kilmartin Graveyard a grave marker with a carved dolphin and Latin text that translates as 'Calm in the midst of the waves'.
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Also don't forget the all Hallows series of online lectures - deathbeds, funerals, granite and slate monuments and the problem with modern sculpture! Details at churchmonumentssociety.org/events
September 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Also don't forget the all Hallows series of online lectures - deathbeds, funerals, granite and slate monuments and the problem with modern sculpture! Details at churchmonumentssociety.org/events
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This post is about Anne Boleyn, and the strange fascination we have with the reproductive lives of Henry's wives (despite the fact he was over 40 when married to all of them but Catherine of Aragon, which may well be explanation enough). lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-formless...
'A Formless Mass of Flesh': Anne Boleyn and the Monstering of Past Pregnancies
Writing about Anne Boleyn’s first pregnancy last week, I was reminded of the volume of controversies and conspiracy theories that swirl around the reproductive lives of Henry VIII’s queens.
lucyallengoss.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This post is about Anne Boleyn, and the strange fascination we have with the reproductive lives of Henry's wives (despite the fact he was over 40 when married to all of them but Catherine of Aragon, which may well be explanation enough). lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-formless...
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I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.
August 5, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I was thinking with a friend about how to describe the harms of AI, especially in a teaching and labor context, and came up with calling it a “coordinated campaign of mass deskilling” and I feel like that succinctly describes a lot of the problem.
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Israeli protesters holding pictures of starving Palestinian children and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza clashed with police on Thursday in Tel Aviv.
August 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Israeli protesters holding pictures of starving Palestinian children and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza clashed with police on Thursday in Tel Aviv.
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Accurate.
FTR, I love me some Beneventan.
FTR, I love me some Beneventan.
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Accurate.
FTR, I love me some Beneventan.
FTR, I love me some Beneventan.
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BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians, including 23 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
July 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians, including 23 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
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Pain really is all-consuming when its bad, and I spent this morning trying to convince my doctor at the walk in clinic that I am indeed in so much pain I cannot deal with daily life, and as its always the case, I wonder how much he heard and how much he thought was just a hysterical brown woman.
July 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Pain really is all-consuming when its bad, and I spent this morning trying to convince my doctor at the walk in clinic that I am indeed in so much pain I cannot deal with daily life, and as its always the case, I wonder how much he heard and how much he thought was just a hysterical brown woman.
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I'm hearing anecdotal reports of trans people being turned away from hospital because there are no "private rooms" and they are refusing to put them in single sex wards.
If this happens to you (physical health)
Ask for a senior nurse, explain things to them
Take all their names
Cont.
If this happens to you (physical health)
Ask for a senior nurse, explain things to them
Take all their names
Cont.
July 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm hearing anecdotal reports of trans people being turned away from hospital because there are no "private rooms" and they are refusing to put them in single sex wards.
If this happens to you (physical health)
Ask for a senior nurse, explain things to them
Take all their names
Cont.
If this happens to you (physical health)
Ask for a senior nurse, explain things to them
Take all their names
Cont.
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‘Creatures of Power: Animals, Ecology and Humanity in the Medieval World’
July 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
‘Creatures of Power: Animals, Ecology and Humanity in the Medieval World’
I had so much fun taking part in this session! 🐋🐖🦢Thank you to the wonderful conference organisers for putting together such a fantastic event! 💕
It is now time for the final session of the conference. Our first panel is titled ‘Creatures of Power: Animals, Ecology and Humanity in the Medieval World’ with Rosalind Philips-Solomon, Jennifer Coulton and Amanda Boeing.
July 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I had so much fun taking part in this session! 🐋🐖🦢Thank you to the wonderful conference organisers for putting together such a fantastic event! 💕
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This is why we demand masks & clean air in healthcare.
No one should get COVID in the place they go to get care.
No one should have precious time ripped away from them.
Too many people say “well they were sick anyways” and completely miss the point.
Sick & disabled people deserve protection too
No one should get COVID in the place they go to get care.
No one should have precious time ripped away from them.
Too many people say “well they were sick anyways” and completely miss the point.
Sick & disabled people deserve protection too
My aunt got covid in hospital in the UK not long after finding out that her cancer had come back. She went from having weeks-months to live to days. She was too ill to talk on the phone or Facetime. My mom did not get to say goodbye.
“COVID-19 infection had a significant impact on patients with cancer, and risk factors for hospitalization and mortality were identified.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
July 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is why we demand masks & clean air in healthcare.
No one should get COVID in the place they go to get care.
No one should have precious time ripped away from them.
Too many people say “well they were sick anyways” and completely miss the point.
Sick & disabled people deserve protection too
No one should get COVID in the place they go to get care.
No one should have precious time ripped away from them.
Too many people say “well they were sick anyways” and completely miss the point.
Sick & disabled people deserve protection too
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This extraordinary piece is entitled "Allegory of the Transience of Life," c.1480. It’s an engraving printed on vellum, with hand-colouring, by Master I. A. M. of Zwolle - an Dutch goldsmith and engraver. It’s currently housed at the British Museum.
July 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This extraordinary piece is entitled "Allegory of the Transience of Life," c.1480. It’s an engraving printed on vellum, with hand-colouring, by Master I. A. M. of Zwolle - an Dutch goldsmith and engraver. It’s currently housed at the British Museum.
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We were at the Leeds International Medieval Congress - Glastonbury for medievalists? churchmonumentssociety.org/2025/07/13/l...
July 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
We were at the Leeds International Medieval Congress - Glastonbury for medievalists? churchmonumentssociety.org/2025/07/13/l...
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Funding klaxon - the Soc of Antiquaries' Morris Fund, helps with conservation of monuments (among other things), deadline for the current year is 31 August www.sal.org.uk/what-we-do/g...
Our Grant Programmes - Society of Antiquaries of London
Find out how we support research into material culture and the conservation of churches.
www.sal.org.uk
July 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Funding klaxon - the Soc of Antiquaries' Morris Fund, helps with conservation of monuments (among other things), deadline for the current year is 31 August www.sal.org.uk/what-we-do/g...
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jstor i do not want this
July 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
jstor i do not want this
IMC 2025, that’s a wrap! What a wonderfully hectic week it’s been! 🐇📜⚔️👑🪦 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @church-monuments.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
IMC 2025, that’s a wrap! What a wonderfully hectic week it’s been! 🐇📜⚔️👑🪦 @imc-leeds.bsky.social @church-monuments.bsky.social
