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Ginny Dawe-Woodings

@helloginnybatty.bsky.social

Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.

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Hannah Louise@hanarchovist.bsky.social · 10h ago

I need some help with this Arabic (?) word in this RAF navigator's 1941 diary. He writes that he was told it was a universal Arabic greeting for "Good morning" or "Good day" but I'm struggling to find something similar online. Thank you so much if anyone can help

Extract of a handwritten diary entry. The image does not show the full sentences but the words say, on the first line: "the opposite bank of the canal". On the second line: "& called [here is a word I cannot translate) which I". Third line reads: "much as good morning & good". The fourth and final line reads "I saw workmen in the fields".A word I need assistance translating or transcribing. Possibly an Arabic greeting.
Ginny Dawe-Woodings@helloginnybatty.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm going back over the charter granted by Henry I to St Bartholomew's, albeit an early 20th century transcription of the 1133 copy, and I just cannot understand what "it shall have socc and sacc, and thol and theme, and infogheneteof" could possibly mean

Black text on beige background - "Know ye, that I have granted, and have by this my charter confirmed, to the church of St Bartholomew of London, and to Rahere the Prior, and the Canons Regular, in the same church serving God, and to the poor of the Hospital of the same church, that they be free from all earthly servitude and earthly power and subjection, except episcopal customs, to wit, only consecration of the church, baptism, and ordination of clergy; and that as any church in all England is free, so this church be free, and all the lands to it appertaining, which it now has, or which Rahere the Prior, or the Canons, may be able to acquire, whether by purchase or by gift. And it shall have socc and sacc, and thol and theme, and infogheneteof; and all liberties and free customs and acquittances in all things which belong to the same church, in wood and in plain, in meadows and pastures, in waters and mills, in ways and paths, in pools and vineyards, and marshes and fisheries, in granges and copses, within and without, and in all places now and for ever.
Ginny Dawe-Woodings@helloginnybatty.bsky.social · last mo.

Find somebody who loves you the way that @ermerlindaj.bsky.social loves early modern public sanitation projects 💧

Barts Health Archives@bharchives.bsky.social · last mo.

Last Friday, as part of their 'Filth and Health' conference, we welcomed members of the British Archaeological Association for a display of documents relating medieval and early modern sewers and water supply at St Bartholomew's Hospital (and to enjoy the archives air conditioning!)

Ginny Dawe-Woodings@helloginnybatty.bsky.social · last mo.

So we discussed this at book club last night and even my two non-archivist best friends agreed this was a lazy portrayal. It's a shame because the rest of the book was really interesting! If you're interested in reading it it's May We Feed the King - Rebecca Perry.

Ginny Dawe-Woodings@helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know there are bigger things to be concerned about, but I am unreasonably angry about a book I'm reading and the portrayal of archivists. Firstly - WHITE GLOVES. FFS. Also, the author has confused displaying things for a period in low light with viewing things in a search room.

A screen shot of an ebook page, with a section highlighted in purple. The text reads – WHITE GLOVES, The next morning – a fresh day, like cutting into an apple. I drove to the palace, keen to swim once again through its chambers. The archivist was waiting in a dim room. They always are. The better to protect the fragile pages, but I suspect, they enjoy the drama of it too – their white gloves glowing as they beckon you inside, like a mystic bidding you come observe your future in a pale fire. I have levelled this suspicion at many archivists over the years, and they have always reddened and appeared taken back. On this occasion, however, I did not feel compelled to comment. There had been a second, upon, entering, when I saw the archivist
Barts Health Archives@bharchives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We can't wait to welcome groups from the @ihr.bsky.social Summer School next week - if ever a theme was made for our collections, it is 'Sickness and Health'! We have lots of fascinating material to share with them on Monday

Centre for the History of People, Place & Community@chppc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A brilliant morning in @senatehouselib.bsky.social! @cathamclarke.bsky.social and @graffitiginger.bsky.social have been looking at special collections materials ready for our @ihr.bsky.social London Summer School next week - on the theme of 'Sickness and Health'. Our participants are in for a treat!

Catherine and Crystal look at materials
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a machine that can fill in the gaps in the archives! this is distilled essence of so much of the techno-utopianism around LLMs and research. it fundamentally misunderstands: the *gaps* are the meaning. history is not the past, it is the processes of recording, then interpreting those records

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Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

Ginny Dawe-Woodings@helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know there are bigger things to be concerned about, but I am unreasonably angry about a book I'm reading and the portrayal of archivists. Firstly - WHITE GLOVES. FFS. Also, the author has confused displaying things for a period in low light with viewing things in a search room.

A screen shot of an ebook page, with a section highlighted in purple. The text reads – WHITE GLOVES, The next morning – a fresh day, like cutting into an apple. I drove to the palace, keen to swim once again through its chambers. The archivist was waiting in a dim room. They always are. The better to protect the fragile pages, but I suspect, they enjoy the drama of it too – their white gloves glowing as they beckon you inside, like a mystic bidding you come observe your future in a pale fire. I have levelled this suspicion at many archivists over the years, and they have always reddened and appeared taken back. On this occasion, however, I did not feel compelled to comment. There had been a second, upon, entering, when I saw the archivist
Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Collections policies exist for a reason. We've had lots of people trying to give us documents, even when we've been at events across the county and have no way of safely taking the documents back to the archive. Sadly we have to turn these people away, but this is for the benefit of the documents.

Ian Kikuchi@curatorian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

Jo Grady@drjogrady.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?