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
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
(Totally unsurprising that freebirthing etc is a grift at the hippie/right-wing nexus obviously)
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
(Totally unsurprising that freebirthing etc is a grift at the hippie/right-wing nexus obviously)
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
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
...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
...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
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
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...
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...
"Why, this dish could only come from amongst the people of Ruthenia!"
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Why, this dish could only come from amongst the people of Ruthenia!"
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!
www.foodguessr.com
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...
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
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
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
This is why I started knitting. I needed something to do that wasn’t work or work-coded (reading)
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
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!
To have hot beer. It’s a German thing, Bierstacheln.
November 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
To have hot beer. It’s a German thing, Bierstacheln.
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...........................