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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah but it had the archivist character wearing white gloves so it's a no from me

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Turing Police Andúnië Branch 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The reason we should actually crack down hard on racist agitators, and yes, using the force of the state, with the courts, and the police, and power, is not because it can cure racists from being racist. I don't know what can. I don't care! You shouldn't be allowed to say and do these things

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This reminds me of the Dara Ó Briain standup about 'fear of zombies' being at all time high, whilst attacks by zombies being at an all time low. These people are 'terrified' of a problem which, where it does exist, has been dramatised and hyperbolised by grifters.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In Year 6 we stopped singing hymns in morning assembly for an entire term and just sang the soundtrack to Grease and I still have no idea why

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do you work with historic medical images? Join the launch of the new Ethics of Medical Photography Toolkit, a new resource for researchers, GLAM professionals, and anyone thinking about the challenges of working with historical medical photography

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I do love receiving rude veg in the post

A clear plastic bag on a wooden counter top with the words ‘YOUR MOTHER INSISTED’ written in marker pen. On the bag is a pair of conjoinred tomatoes that resembles genitalia

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seems the difference between ‘protestors’ and ‘terrorists’ is that protestors wear balaclavas while terrorists hold placards.

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Look what's washed up in the #archives! Our new display, 'Rinse and Repeat' focuses on the vital work of our hospital's laundries. Learn how many million items were laundered each year and find out about Big Bertha next time you visit!

Photograph of items in a display case, including miniature uniforms, a Singer sewing machine, and a large ledger book

Photograph of items in a display case, including miniature uniforms, and a Singer sewing machine

Photograph of items in a display case, including a page of a specification for laundry equipment with an illustration of a 'Bradford's Improved Drying Closet'

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Interested in 'Transplantation of the Teeth'? What about 'Fur on the tongue'? Or do you want to find out about a 'singular injury' caused by a marble? You can now find case reports on these and many more listed on our catalogue. Find out more in our new blog post shorturl.at/moaAI

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Opening the report books | Blogs from the Archives

A volunteer project to improve the cataloguing of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I was not prepared for how hard the logo for the Basque anti-ableist group Bordillo Aplastao goes

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love photos from the Finsen Light Department. The nurses always look so cool!

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm so jealous that our stacking isn't this dangerous

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Hannah Louise @hanarchovist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Really gutted to hear that Lincoln's historic Ellis Mill is at risk. I went on many school trips where we milled our own flour and learned about the agricultural heritage of our county. I'd be so sad to see it go! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Council urged to act to save Lincoln's last windmill

Volunteers want to take over the running of the council-owned Ellis Mill to secure its future.

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Want to use archives for your research but don't know where to start? Book one of our hands-on archive skills sessions to help take your research further! Last Friday, @lhbt.bsky.social brought their Community Researchers for a skills session focused on property records, including some fab plans

Photograph of a display in the archive including plans, deeds and large volumes

Plan of St Bartholomew's Hospital-owned property in Fore Street and Lime Kiln Dock [Limehouse], c1755 - 1762 (plan 114, SBHB/HC/46)

Plan of the estate of the Infant Orphan Asylum, Dalston (later the location of the German Hospital), 1843. This plan was produced for the sale of the freehold estate of the Infant Orphan Asylum and is part of an advertisement for the sale. The plan shows the grounds of the Asylum from next to Dalston Road and includes the Asylum buildings, a school, mansion, playground, flower garden, orchard garden and grass plot. (SBHG/HC/3/2)

Proposal for the conversion of the German orphanage into a nurses' home, Jan-Feb 1949 (SBHG/HC/4/4)

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I’m still on the biggest high from seeing My Chemical Romance on Friday. Twenty years on from my mam driving me and two friends to Birmingham for the first Black Parade tour 💀👁️🖤 #LongLiveTheBlackParade

View of a stage with a massive standing crowd. Pyrotechnic flares are lighting up the main stage and to the sides, and part of the stage appears to be on fire

A man wearing a skeleton onesie looks emotionally to the sky.

The roof of a massive stadium, full of crowds illuminated in red with their phone torches lit, as fireworks launch from the roof

A group of four people, all in black, smile at the camera.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Not to sound like a C18 botanist but I have just discovered Celosia Cristata and declare them to be the most wondrously beautiful flowers I have ever seen

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

MAGALOGIC Losing your job to immigrants? Get rid of immigrants Losing your job to AI? Get with the program

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

OH MY GOD MAYBE WIDOW CULLENS WELL IN LINCOLN CAN REOPEN NOW

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

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

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

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.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In my eyes if it comes out of the freezer and is a portable desert it's an ice lolly. Middle right girlie

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I love a ‘we have angered the gods’ kind of storm ⛈️⛈️

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm a pine marten - puffin - bumblebee kinda gal.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sweltering in the UK heatwave?? Why not visit your Local Archival Repository! Low temperatures and humidity GUARANTEED* And we throw in the history for free😍 *by regulatory standard BS4971:2017 Archives - Where the records are cool and so are you.

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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm fast becoming a single issue voter and that vote is letting trans people live their lives

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

trans toilet bans are pro-rape legislation by pro-rape politicians

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Incredible, once again Spain has outdone themselves on heritage conservation. I've never seen colonoscopy used as a verb! english.elpais.com/culture/2026...

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Repository, fonds, series, file, item, folio

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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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?

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I once again refer the Guardian to the Schellenburg Dusty Archive Kitten Deaths website - "limiting stereotypes like dust...that dominate the media conversations about archives and libraries in the press, that imply irrelevance and overlook archival labor and archivists' contributions". Fucks sake.

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Tomorrow is View Day at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which also means it's our next #Archives Open Day! 📖👀🥳 Drop in between 11am-3pm tomorrow, Wednesday 13 May to see original records and objects, including some featured in #OurHospitalThroughTime, and find out more about our collections

Poster with images of collection items and the following text:

ARCHIVES OPEN DAY 11am-3pm, WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2026 Drop in to see items from the St Bartholomew’s Hospital collection used during the Channel 5 series, ‘Our Hospital Through Time’, and other items from our collections spanning nine centuries. Come and find out more about the work of Barts Health NHS Trust Archives! Where? Trust Archives, Kenton and Lucas Block (Entrance C), St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London EC1A

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Keeping things topical by finishing my Spanish lesson and adding ‘Transmisible’ and ‘Cuarentena’ and ‘Hantavirus’ to the vocab flashcards.

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Come say hi to us, as a bonus you’ll see me get overexcited talking about our collections 🌻

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Barts Health Archives @bharchives.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Its 100 years since the start of the General Strike, industrial action by millions of workers across Britain. Nearly 52,000 Special Constables were enrolled in London to combat expected unrest. For the 9 days of the strike many slept in the Great Hall at St Bartholomew's Hospital #GeneralStrike100

Black and white photograph showing blankets, pillows and sleeping mats laid out in closely packed rows in the 18th century Great Hall in the North Wing at St Bartholomew's Hospital. (SBHX8/559)

The St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal account of the strike arrangements note that 'the General Strike left the Hospital in relative peace' but that the Great Hall 'was converted into a doss-house, and in the morning presented a really notable experience'

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Can't wait to claim that in addition to being a Yellow Belly I am actually now also a Mackem

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Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A day late but, feliç sant jordi 🌹📚

A close up of the front cover of Asako Yuzuki’s book Hooked, which shows a fish on a hook in bright pink and yellow

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