Chloë J. A. Pieters
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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
Me but with ‘you keep putting commas between two main clauses but this is not correct’
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Feeling this because I've been waiting over 4 months for a magistrate to sign off my access to some judicial files in Belgium which are (marginally!) less than 100 years old and every time I emailed to check they just say 'your case is with the magistrate'
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Chloë J. A. Pieters
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
(Totally unsurprising that freebirthing etc is a grift at the hippie/right-wing nexus obviously)
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
People having babies really deserve so, so much better. Trust in the medical establishment with your life and your baby's life and your emotional and psychological as well as physical survival needs to be recognised as earned, earned through compassionate and thoughtful care which LISTENS TO WOMEN
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
...but the problem is that pregnant women are let down by doctors too often. There's a woman in the Guardian article who turned to freebirthing after being sexually assaulted by her doctor during labour! Of course you wouldn't go back. Of course you'd take any suggestion that there was a better way
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Pregnant and labouring women are so, so vulnerable and are often so, so let down by the medical establishment (reading this, about my local hospital trust, was excruciating: www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...). Obviously they should not be manipulated and defrauded by charlatans...
Britain's next maternity scandal
A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals
www.newstatesman.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Why, this dish could only come from amongst the people of Ruthenia!"
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you don't fancy knitting, there's crochet (which I don't like) but also cross-stitch and embroidery - I really like cross-stitch personally
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is why I started knitting. I needed something to do that wasn’t work or work-coded (reading)
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It’s questions like this that make me realise I still have a strongly European identity despite 18 years in the UK. I’m fairly sure hot poker in alcoholic beverage was even featured in an Asterix or similar BD!
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
To have hot beer. It’s a German thing, Bierstacheln.
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM