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Chloë J. A. Pieters

@cjapieters.bsky.social

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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

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3h

If you can’t read it the podcast is worth a listen

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3h

Read this genuinely crushing piece about the new face of the small boats crisis - moving and terrifying. There is something so odd about being warm and clean, drinking a cup of coffee, reading about the most wretched and inhumane treatment of our fellow humans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

The truth about the small-boats crisis

What Nigel Farage won’t tell you

www.newstatesman.com

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3h

I’m going to make this a regular request

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 4h

Feel free to recommend your own work pls

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 4h

I’d love any suggestions on Belgian history, particularly 18th-20th century, published in or translated into English, please! Overviews welcome but also more specific studies are sought after, whether local, regional or national

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 7h

This isn’t something I wrote as a child btw. I have quite large handwriting even as an adult

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 7h

Found an old notebook which is mostly empty but contains, for reasons lost to the mists of time and memory, a biography of the Empress Theodora (misspelled)

Extract from a notebook showing some notes about Empress Theodora

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 8h

I listened to this this morning while getting ready for work and found this very moving. I’m not sure if I found it hopeful - the comment at the end about the two Palestinian children/youth being arrested by the IDF, one of them beaten, was sobering. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

The Palestinian and Israeli kids trying to be friends – podcast

Today in Focus producer Natalie Ktena heads to a peace camp in Cyprus that aims to bring together children from Israel and the West Bank

www.theguardian.com

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t crack open a novel these days

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 2d

The sound you hear is the primal scream of Brits facing the consequences of their actions www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday

Most non-EU nationals entering Schengen area will have photo and fingerprints taken as part of entry-exit system

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3d

I’m currently putting together a spreadsheet of all my reading notes to keep track of everything and it WILL be useful and WILL save me a lot of replication, but it’s taking one thousand years to start

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3d

It’s honestly been so useful into dipping into the meagrest forms of quantification

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3d

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Sheet Happens

When I started working on witchcraft cases in France from 1790-1940, I knew I wanted to count them. This, of course, was my first mistake. The oldest version I have of the Excel spreadsheet I built…

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3d

Counterpoint: I love spreadsheets and have just built a new one

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 3d

Switching off war a bit with a bit of Radio 3. “And that was Herbert Howells’ heartbreaking elegy to his friend who died in the First World War”

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 4d

Monitoring social media mentions of a university is quite routine; doing so on behalf of any private company is concerning www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 6d

For people who take notes of their readings: how do you keep track of all you’ve read and the notes to refer back to easily? I’m thinking of doing this in a spreadsheet to refer back to with thematic key words to guide me, but any suggestions welcome.

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 6d

I’m making a term-time (!) foray to Belgium to deliver a lecture on women’s varied roles in a total war context at the Passchendaele Museum on 27 November. I’ll be speaking in English. Please do come along if you’re in West Flanders! passchendaele.be/evenementen/...

Engelstalige lezing: Beyond weeping and waiting - women, war and the limits of protection, 1914-1918 - Passchendaele Museum

In het kader van ‘Orange the World’, de wereldwijde campagne tegen geweld tegen vrouwen en meisjes (25 november – 10 december), geeft Dr. Chloë Pieters een lezing over de rol van vrouwen tijdens de Ee...

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 7d

Rare historian cut through with a shout out to David Edgerton on the New Statesman podcast

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 7d

Oxford blue

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14d

A time when a British prime minister called a woman who was criticising the arrival of migrants as a ‘bigoted woman’, after all - can’t imagine that happening even in private now

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14d

I can fully believe that. I came here under a very different legal and, crucially, cultural regime.

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, I guess I feel both that it’s not great but equally that people shouldn’t feel frightened off a few years of travel and casual work overseas unless things are very different (which would be bad)

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14d

E.g. I’d lived abroad but since it was demonstrably for my parents’ work which was international and we maintained strong social and cultural ties to Europe (back in the EU days) and minimal connection to the new country (no property or permanent residency there) I did count as a home student

Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14d

It is/was in practice more flexible if you can demonstrate an ongoing connection to the UK, which could include property ownership (including parental home) and family relationships (I had to show this to get home fees from my UG uni as I was living overseas, but I couldn’t access student loans)