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. Aprendiendo español.
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Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
February 2, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.
This is who runs this account
February 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This is who runs this account
All research guides should be illustrated with a vampire maggie
New to our collections? Want guidance on where to start? Check out our suite of research guides!
Now with 3 *new* guides, developed with students from the @qmul.bsky.social QHeritage programme, on Activism; 'External Midwifery'; & Annexes and Convalescent Homes
www.calmview.co.uk/BartsHealth/...
Now with 3 *new* guides, developed with students from the @qmul.bsky.social QHeritage programme, on Activism; 'External Midwifery'; & Annexes and Convalescent Homes
www.calmview.co.uk/BartsHealth/...
January 30, 2026 at 12:30 PM
All research guides should be illustrated with a vampire maggie
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New on the blog👀
"From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children" - read about the collections and history of a former East London landmark, and the work we're doing to improve access to its amazing archives
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
"From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children" - read about the collections and history of a former East London landmark, and the work we're doing to improve access to its amazing archives
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny | Blogs from the Archives
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and the development of children's hospital services
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk
January 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM
New on the blog👀
"From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children" - read about the collections and history of a former East London landmark, and the work we're doing to improve access to its amazing archives
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
"From Daffodils and Little Folks to Sunny: the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children" - read about the collections and history of a former East London landmark, and the work we're doing to improve access to its amazing archives
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
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Friday: time for my weekly self abasement as I bare my shameful #paleoography "skills" & try #skystorians patience with pleas for rescue again! 🗃️
1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT?
2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT?
2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
January 30, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Friday: time for my weekly self abasement as I bare my shameful #paleoography "skills" & try #skystorians patience with pleas for rescue again! 🗃️
1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT?
2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
1) surname: I read 'M-something-cadye' but WAT?
2) Page title: 'Empcyans & pravycyn' - I'm talking total gibberish. ('howse' is clear though)
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Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
January 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after
Have any other archivist been contacted by AlphaSights to consult on digital preservation systems? They've somehow got my personal details and I want to know how
January 29, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Have any other archivist been contacted by AlphaSights to consult on digital preservation systems? They've somehow got my personal details and I want to know how
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January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Finally got round to watching Sinners, it's just absolutely brilliant. Would recommend anybody who enjoyed it to try reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez 🦇🩸
January 23, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Finally got round to watching Sinners, it's just absolutely brilliant. Would recommend anybody who enjoyed it to try reading The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez 🦇🩸
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Obviously, but anyone notable telling the public this stuff is going to be destroyed in short order. If the left/lib bloc can’t deliver Thatcherism enforced by crackdowns, then they will be replaced by the reactionary/fascist one, whatever it takes to get it done.
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Obviously, but anyone notable telling the public this stuff is going to be destroyed in short order. If the left/lib bloc can’t deliver Thatcherism enforced by crackdowns, then they will be replaced by the reactionary/fascist one, whatever it takes to get it done.
I fear this is going to become way more common
So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.
Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.
Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...
...I stumbled onto this book.
Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.
Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...
...I stumbled onto this book.
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I fear this is going to become way more common
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If labels were accurate:
"A Gaza peace process without Palestinians, for a Gaza without Palestinians"
"A Gaza peace process without Palestinians, for a Gaza without Palestinians"
January 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM
If labels were accurate:
"A Gaza peace process without Palestinians, for a Gaza without Palestinians"
"A Gaza peace process without Palestinians, for a Gaza without Palestinians"
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Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.
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PhD placement scheme
Our annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply skills and expertise outside the university sector.
www.bl.uk
January 20, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.
www.bl.uk/services/res...
www.bl.uk/services/res...
I will never not talk about catgut
We have been watching #Amadeus and the opening titles piqued our interest. The animations show the making of catgut, a material used for both musical instruments and for surgical suturing. We've paired some stills with images from our collection to show how catgut was made 🧵🪡
CW: Gore, needles
CW: Gore, needles
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 AM
I will never not talk about catgut
Being a tubby gal at the gym in January is horrendous. Personal trainers circling like sharks
January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Being a tubby gal at the gym in January is horrendous. Personal trainers circling like sharks
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We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
January 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
I am definitely a Sturdy
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 AM
I am definitely a Sturdy
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My parents were without water for two days and four days on they are still waiting to get reconnected to the national grid
Quite impressed that homes without water in Kent get a headline on Radio 6 News, when the thousands of homes without power, or without water, in Cornwall hasn’t made national news.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cornwall homes still without power and water after Storm Goretti
Schools and colleges are warning that they will be shut on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:31 AM
My parents were without water for two days and four days on they are still waiting to get reconnected to the national grid
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The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
New wrong spelling of my name just dropped - Gynny. Amazing it’s taken so long to get to this variation
January 8, 2026 at 12:19 PM
New wrong spelling of my name just dropped - Gynny. Amazing it’s taken so long to get to this variation
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I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
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January 6, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Oh please no. I don't want to start 2026 with the ripperologists
Pray for me!
Pray for me!
BBC running Ripper-adjacent Victorian murder mystery doc followed by a Titanic sinking reconstruction in one evening?
Thoughts and prayers for my colleagues manning the enquiry services out there, it'll be a week.
Thoughts and prayers for my colleagues manning the enquiry services out there, it'll be a week.
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Oh please no. I don't want to start 2026 with the ripperologists
Pray for me!
Pray for me!
Festive walk through the village 🐬🧜🏻♀️🎄
December 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Festive walk through the village 🐬🧜🏻♀️🎄