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
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 foodandwarconf@gmail.com 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com 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 foodandwarconf@gmail.com 22 December 2025 (5pm UK).
How have modern wars reshaped the production, movement, and meaning of food?
📨 Submit a title + abstract (≤300 words) to foodandwarconf@gmail.com 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...
Watching a teenage driver text as he blissfully breezes over the pedestrian crossing which I am in the middle of...every day is a challenge to survive as a pedestrian in Oxford
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Watching a teenage driver text as he blissfully breezes over the pedestrian crossing which I am in the middle of...every day is a challenge to survive as a pedestrian in Oxford
This sounds really lovely but also really historically important to write women who didn't have children back into history. Historical approaches to family and gender often revolve significantly around historicising motherhood
Tomorrow morning we will be running a pop up at the Kiln just off Worcester High Street.
Do drop in if you're interested in learning more about the history of being childfree by choice.
It will be a relaxed, positive space and we would love to see you there!
Do drop in if you're interested in learning more about the history of being childfree by choice.
It will be a relaxed, positive space and we would love to see you there!
Our second event is a drop-in pop up exploring past and present experiences of choosing to be childfree.
📍The Kiln (WR1 2HB)
🗓️ Saturday 8 November
⏱️10:00-13:00
(3/4)
📍The Kiln (WR1 2HB)
🗓️ Saturday 8 November
⏱️10:00-13:00
(3/4)
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This sounds really lovely but also really historically important to write women who didn't have children back into history. Historical approaches to family and gender often revolve significantly around historicising motherhood
Reading and enjoying the Government of Ireland Act 1914
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reading and enjoying the Government of Ireland Act 1914
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I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.
A driver decided to drive through a red light while I was in the middle of the crossing with green man blaring - as this is the fifth time this has happened in two weeks (all at different crossings!) I can only conclude we need significantly more than a congestion charge
November 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A driver decided to drive through a red light while I was in the middle of the crossing with green man blaring - as this is the fifth time this has happened in two weeks (all at different crossings!) I can only conclude we need significantly more than a congestion charge
"A rare opportunity to hear a talk by Dr. Chloë Pieters in Belgium in person!", according to my mum. Come along if you're around! passchendaele.be/en/events/le...
Lecture: Beyond weeping and waiting: women, war, and the limits of protection, 1914-1918 - Passchendaele Museum
As part of ‘Orange the World’, the global campaign against violence towards women and girls (25 November–10 December), Dr. Chloë Pieters will give a lecture on the role of women during the First World...
passchendaele.be
November 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"A rare opportunity to hear a talk by Dr. Chloë Pieters in Belgium in person!", according to my mum. Come along if you're around! passchendaele.be/en/events/le...
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo
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I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
Double-checking the historiography of Liberal Italy for teaching tomorrow and murmuring 'molto bene' occasionally as...immersion...I guess
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Double-checking the historiography of Liberal Italy for teaching tomorrow and murmuring 'molto bene' occasionally as...immersion...I guess
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OMG, how amazing can a conference calls for papers be? This looks amazing!
I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
OMG, how amazing can a conference calls for papers be? This looks amazing!
Nice afternoon
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Nice afternoon
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This event looks like it will be wonderful and we are delighted to be supporting it
I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This event looks like it will be wonderful and we are delighted to be supporting it
Slightly fearful to express how happy I am about the clocks changing. Yes to bright mornings, yes to GMT, yes to true autumn.
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Slightly fearful to express how happy I am about the clocks changing. Yes to bright mornings, yes to GMT, yes to true autumn.
I appreciate issues like this are common for women’s clothing but a pair of trousers was too small (zipped and buttoned up but felt tight) so I replaced it with a size up and the bigger size is physically smaller - I can’t get it on at all
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I appreciate issues like this are common for women’s clothing but a pair of trousers was too small (zipped and buttoned up but felt tight) so I replaced it with a size up and the bigger size is physically smaller - I can’t get it on at all
I added this useful article (published w/ @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) on electoral violence between 1832-1914 to the modern British history papers I teach and am very happy with how students have used it - it really helps them nuance a linear historiography doi.org/10.1093/past...
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914*
Abstract. This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England a
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October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I added this useful article (published w/ @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) on electoral violence between 1832-1914 to the modern British history papers I teach and am very happy with how students have used it - it really helps them nuance a linear historiography doi.org/10.1093/past...
Elections in Caerphilly made me think of the parody song Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) and it turns out it was copyright-claimed by EMI and this was one of the things that led to the review on copyright regulations????
October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Elections in Caerphilly made me think of the parody song Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) and it turns out it was copyright-claimed by EMI and this was one of the things that led to the review on copyright regulations????