Chloë J. A. Pieters
@cjapieters.bsky.social
Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. I work on the comparative Belgian and British history of the FWW (and beyond). She/her. History, history, it is a mystery. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-pieters
Everyone I know is at SHoW…but I’ve been in Zonnebeke to give a lecture for the Passchendaele Memorial Museum on the role of women in wartime, as part of the museum’s participation in the UN Orange the World campaign against domestic violence. A pleasure to speak for such an engaged audience!
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Everyone I know is at SHoW…but I’ve been in Zonnebeke to give a lecture for the Passchendaele Memorial Museum on the role of women in wartime, as part of the museum’s participation in the UN Orange the World campaign against domestic violence. A pleasure to speak for such an engaged audience!
Well, I laughed on.ft.com/3KqSUov
Rachel Reeves presents her 2025 Budget
‘I don’t think it’s a leak — this time it’s the actual Budget’
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Well, I laughed on.ft.com/3KqSUov
Found a new way of teaching the 1989 revolutions today by showing my students the 1997/8 Gorbachev Pizza Hut adverts
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Found a new way of teaching the 1989 revolutions today by showing my students the 1997/8 Gorbachev Pizza Hut adverts
Have truly fully committed to academia (bought several pairs of corduroy trousers) so it would be nice if the sector could be okay
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Have truly fully committed to academia (bought several pairs of corduroy trousers) so it would be nice if the sector could be okay
Reminded of this: "In other words, Labour has chosen to make the university sector, if not quite an enemy, more of an embarrassing distant relation worthy of disdain. At the same time as relying on the votes of everyone vaguely attached to it." benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Reminded of this: "In other words, Labour has chosen to make the university sector, if not quite an enemy, more of an embarrassing distant relation worthy of disdain. At the same time as relying on the votes of everyone vaguely attached to it." benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
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the fiction that - in the current fee environment, anti-immigration framework, and global readjustment of education markets- the UK will continue to expand its lucrative business of international students: this fiction underpins university financial plans and cannot therefore be acknowledged
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
the fiction that - in the current fee environment, anti-immigration framework, and global readjustment of education markets- the UK will continue to expand its lucrative business of international students: this fiction underpins university financial plans and cannot therefore be acknowledged
Listening to a panel discussion with Jeremy Hunt describing Britain as having the most respected universities in the world, second to the US. The scale of the complacency is staggering. Stuff doesn’t stay being good because it’s always been good - you have to invest in and support national assets
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Listening to a panel discussion with Jeremy Hunt describing Britain as having the most respected universities in the world, second to the US. The scale of the complacency is staggering. Stuff doesn’t stay being good because it’s always been good - you have to invest in and support national assets
This is obviously awful, but I do understand the appeal. I have many female friends who have babies they love very much, but I have not heard yet a positive birth story. Not all of them are horrifically negative. But none of them were really good, either www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is obviously awful, but I do understand the appeal. I have many female friends who have babies they love very much, but I have not heard yet a positive birth story. Not all of them are horrifically negative. But none of them were really good, either www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Playing this and discovering - as if I were in any doubt - that most of my 'geographic knowledge' of Europe comes from saying countries which used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as fast as possible www.foodguessr.com
FoodGuessr - Explore the world by food!
Test your knowledge of geography, food, and culture with FoodGuessr. Challenge yourself and compete with friends to see who can guess where these world dishes are from!
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November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Playing this and discovering - as if I were in any doubt - that most of my 'geographic knowledge' of Europe comes from saying countries which used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as fast as possible www.foodguessr.com
Odd time to encounter it
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Odd time to encounter it
1 in 6 children are sexually abused. Obviously approach this very tough story with care (I haven't read the whole thing yet as it is hard going) but it's incredibly moving and, of course, troubling www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal
At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public ...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
1 in 6 children are sexually abused. Obviously approach this very tough story with care (I haven't read the whole thing yet as it is hard going) but it's incredibly moving and, of course, troubling www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
There are grapes in my frozen forest fruit mix...I quite like a frozen grape but the context is heinous
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
There are grapes in my frozen forest fruit mix...I quite like a frozen grape but the context is heinous
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This piece of printed silk was once used as currency 💶
From my grandfather’s/great-grandfather’s ‘Notgeld’ collection - a type of emergency money issued by German cities during the inflation years.
Most were made of paper, but this silk note was printed in 1921 in Bielefeld, a major textile city ✨
From my grandfather’s/great-grandfather’s ‘Notgeld’ collection - a type of emergency money issued by German cities during the inflation years.
Most were made of paper, but this silk note was printed in 1921 in Bielefeld, a major textile city ✨
November 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This piece of printed silk was once used as currency 💶
From my grandfather’s/great-grandfather’s ‘Notgeld’ collection - a type of emergency money issued by German cities during the inflation years.
Most were made of paper, but this silk note was printed in 1921 in Bielefeld, a major textile city ✨
From my grandfather’s/great-grandfather’s ‘Notgeld’ collection - a type of emergency money issued by German cities during the inflation years.
Most were made of paper, but this silk note was printed in 1921 in Bielefeld, a major textile city ✨
I don’t know whether my great grandmother, fleeing the German advance into Antwerp in 1914, arrived at Folkestone, as hundreds of thousands of fellow Belgian refugees did. It’s fitting that the MP from there is objecting to the most egregious anti-asylum policies being proposed by his government
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I don’t know whether my great grandmother, fleeing the German advance into Antwerp in 1914, arrived at Folkestone, as hundreds of thousands of fellow Belgian refugees did. It’s fitting that the MP from there is objecting to the most egregious anti-asylum policies being proposed by his government
Ukrainian refugees to Denmark were exempted from this, as it happens.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Ukrainian refugees to Denmark were exempted from this, as it happens.
Looking forward to the email from Thames Water telling me we're in drought conditions and a hosepipe ban is still in effect
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Looking forward to the email from Thames Water telling me we're in drought conditions and a hosepipe ban is still in effect
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An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS
PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...
royalhistsoc.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...
just read a snarky little aside by Arthur Marwick that has knocked me dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they don't make inter-historian beef like they used to!!!!!!!!!!! bring back employment stability, bring back beef, I say...........................
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
just read a snarky little aside by Arthur Marwick that has knocked me dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they don't make inter-historian beef like they used to!!!!!!!!!!! bring back employment stability, bring back beef, I say...........................
Listening with bemusement to an interview with Tom Baldwin, who genuinely seems to uphold Keir Starmer, even today!!!! as a model of sober, serious, life-changing governance and that the government would function better if everyone were like him
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Listening with bemusement to an interview with Tom Baldwin, who genuinely seems to uphold Keir Starmer, even today!!!! as a model of sober, serious, life-changing governance and that the government would function better if everyone were like him
'I found out about Helen Andrews before the NYT headline thing because I was reading up on the Bruce Gilley controversy and he endorses her work' is ia sentence that sounds insane tbqh
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'I found out about Helen Andrews before the NYT headline thing because I was reading up on the Bruce Gilley controversy and he endorses her work' is ia sentence that sounds insane tbqh
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📢 CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to [email protected] 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to [email protected] 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📢 CFP | Food and Nutrition in Wartime, 19th - 21st Centuries | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (16–17 April 2026)
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to [email protected] 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to [email protected] 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
I need a VPN to access my payroll portal when not on-site, as an example of a mundane activity which would not happen or would be made less secure by this kind of idiocy
Every university in the UK uses a VPN for at least some of its services. Thousands of firms use them for remote working. VPNs are an integral and essential part of a secure online economy.
So Labour will ban them, to "protect the children".
So Labour will ban them, to "protect the children".
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I need a VPN to access my payroll portal when not on-site, as an example of a mundane activity which would not happen or would be made less secure by this kind of idiocy
Glad to see the Sunday Sport is same as it ever was, though
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Glad to see the Sunday Sport is same as it ever was, though
It's funny when historians contextualise their work through the lens of the present - FWW historians at the centenary, John Bew on the Corbynwave, Angus Calder at the reunification of Germany. You look with them at their lost world, knowing their work has lost the meaning it had at its inception.
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It's funny when historians contextualise their work through the lens of the present - FWW historians at the centenary, John Bew on the Corbynwave, Angus Calder at the reunification of Germany. You look with them at their lost world, knowing their work has lost the meaning it had at its inception.
Does anyone recall a roundtable of historians on German colonial wars, perhaps specifically on the Herero wars, some years ago? I don't know if I'm hallucinating this memory but if it was real, it would be useful for a student if you could point me in the right direction...
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Does anyone recall a roundtable of historians on German colonial wars, perhaps specifically on the Herero wars, some years ago? I don't know if I'm hallucinating this memory but if it was real, it would be useful for a student if you could point me in the right direction...