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Helen Gittos

@helengittos.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce (I can't read private messages here.)

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William Purkis@williampurkis.bsky.social · 9h ago

It is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across @unibirmingham.bsky.social learned of the death last Friday of Prof. Chris Wickham. Chris’s colleagues and friends from around the world are invited to contribute to this online Book of Condolence: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/pr...

Professor Chris Wickham - University of Birmingham

It is with overwhelming sadness that colleagues across the College of Arts and Law learned of the death last Friday of Professor Chris Wickham.

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Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 7h ago

Fantastic! Great to see such good recent work on the 'princely burials' of the Peak District? 'Lead levels measured within the tooth enamel of individuals from Wigber Low and Castleton demonstrate that post-Roman lead production in the Peak District was established by the mid-seventh century AD.'

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Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 7h ago

Come for the new research on post-Roman lead production in early medieval Europe, but stay for the knowledge that 🦫 Beaver 🦫 teeth were magical and status symbols made into cool amulets—which also hold embedded evidence for said lead production. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Object Type pendant amulet (?) Museum number 1873,0602.95 Description Pendant or amulet(?), comprising a beaver's tooth mounted in a short ribbed gold tube; with small suspension loop. Cultures/periods Early Anglo-Saxon Production date 7thC Findspot Excavated/Findspot: Wigber Low, barrow Europe: British Isles: England: Derbyshire: Wigber Low Materials beaver tooth gold Dimensions Length: 3.80 centimetres Curator's comments A second beaver tooth pendant was found at Wigber Low in 1987, and is very similar in form. This second example is held by Museums Sheffield (number: 1996.716.6), and on display at Weston Park Museum. From a cairn/barrow a Wigber Low, near Kniveton, Derbyshire. The barrow was excavated in June 1869 by J.F. Lucas, and has seen recent investigation from the University of Sheffield in the 1970s and 1980s. The cairn is from the Bronze Age but was reused in the Anglo-Saxon period, and there is also possible evidence of a Neolithic settlement beneath the cairn, as…
Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 2d ago

In 2022, Rachel Koopmans published a glossy, highly-illustrated booklet on her research into one of the Becket miracle windows in Canterbury. It's a masterpiece of academic communication: clear, exciting, undumbed-down, shown as much as told. Now she & Leonie Seliger have produced another...

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Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Becket lives! Or at least some events marking the 850th anniversary of his murder leave a digital legacy. Lectures @britishmuseum.bsky.social: youtube.com/playlist?lis... And @yorkuniversity.bsky.social Centre for Christianity & Culture's Becket Story project www.thebecketstory.org.uk/about

About the project

This online resource has been created by the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at the University of York, and generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The

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Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d ago

And the icing on the cake: a podcast interview with Ana de Oliveira Dias, for the 'behind-the-scenes' take on her article in this issue. rss.com/podcasts/ear...

Whose bones are these? Labelling relics in early medieval Francia | Early Medieval Europe

Everyone knows the importance of relics for early medieval Christianity.

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Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hot off the press - the latest issue of "Early Medieval Europe"! 34.4 includes Marcelo Candido da Silva on numbers in Carolingian annals.... (£) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hot off the press - the latest issue of "Early Medieval Europe"! 34.4 includes Marcelo Candido da Silva on numbers in Carolingian annals.... (£) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Accounting for crises in Carolingian annals

This article examines the ways in which crises were recorded and conceptualized in Carolingian annals, with particular attention to the selective use of numerical information. Rather than treating re...

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Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 4d ago

'The archaeological periods of advance do not coincide closely with those of the ruling houses, which implies that there are other actors driving transitions, other members of the population who have agency, among them farmers, merchants, potters and minor tenants.'

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Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Books I'm looking for an excuse to read... 'Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.'

Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm struggling again to find something clear to give 1st & 2nd yr students on the archaeology of law & governance in late Anglo-Saxon England - you know, pictures of meeting sites, something that conveys how much we know from landscape archaeology about how & where government happened. Suggestions?

Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 6d ago

'But what would, say, the German court have thought, full of snobbish aristocrats from old families as it was, to find an authoritative representative from northern Italy’s biggest city called Shit-pesto?' Chris! I do so wish we had better words to describe how much academic colleagues mean to us.

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Adam@chalicotherex.bsky.social · 7d ago

RIP Chris Wickham. Here’s a post of a very funny bit I found tucked away in one of his books. adamsnotes.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

Ruth Siddall@pavementgeology.bsky.social · last wk.

Could this be the most important building in London this century? I think so! It’s a return to using stone structurally to build a 10 storey tower and hugely reducing the carbon impact of building. By Groupwork and Webb Yates engineers, Petra Heights on Finchley Road is monumental in so many ways 🧵

A view of the Finchley Road. A parade of shops housed in an early 20th Century terrace is on the left and next to these is a block composed of two towers constructed in a square grid pattern using beams of red coloured stone. Next to this spectacular building is a boring ‘council architect’ late 29th century residential block.