Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
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Liesbeth Corens
@onslies.bsky.social
· Nov 10
About me: I'm really interested in how (Catholic) minorities persevere.
Confessional Mobility: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093...
Archives & Information: britishacademy.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5871...
Social History: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Confessional Mobility: oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093...
Archives & Information: britishacademy.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5871...
Social History: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
ELIOT!! Excited to hear what @ebenbow.bsky.social’s been up to since his brilliant PhD @qmul.bsky.social!
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
ELIOT!! Excited to hear what @ebenbow.bsky.social’s been up to since his brilliant PhD @qmul.bsky.social!
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Very much looking forward to presenting at the Low Countries History Seminar at the IHR this evening. I'll be talking about merchants from the Low Countries who specialised (and excelled) in supplying London's goods market with everyday stuff in the later Middle Ages. 😊
TONIGHT!!! You can still make your way to Bloomsbury! Or you can bat your eyelashes at me sweetly and I can send you the zoom link. Either way, don't miss this. Eliot is fabulous!
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Very much looking forward to presenting at the Low Countries History Seminar at the IHR this evening. I'll be talking about merchants from the Low Countries who specialised (and excelled) in supplying London's goods market with everyday stuff in the later Middle Ages. 😊
TONIGHT!!! You can still make your way to Bloomsbury! Or you can bat your eyelashes at me sweetly and I can send you the zoom link. Either way, don't miss this. Eliot is fabulous!
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
TONIGHT!!! You can still make your way to Bloomsbury! Or you can bat your eyelashes at me sweetly and I can send you the zoom link. Either way, don't miss this. Eliot is fabulous!
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And yet the minister claims she refuses to think about student number distribution work.
Time to change her mind. #UKHE
Time to change her mind. #UKHE
'Bols and Maguire trace the current financial problems higher education institutions are facing back to the government’s decision to remove the limit on student numbers in 2015-16 and deregulate student recruitment, while maintaining caps on tuition fees, thus limiting universities’ income.' 2/3
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
And yet the minister claims she refuses to think about student number distribution work.
Time to change her mind. #UKHE
Time to change her mind. #UKHE
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Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Publishing in February from @sunypress.bsky.social , a co-edited volume with the wonderful Lisa DiBartolomeo. It contains 25 chapters from an outstanding group of authors, and each one is a certified banger. 🙂✊
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
(gotta finish reviewing the galleys though--next week, @rcolesworthy.bsky.social!)
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In some of his commentary he describes just going for broke visually when he can't think of a good plot.
This might be one and I believe that the other is when he sneezes and can't believe the size of what came out.
This might be one and I believe that the other is when he sneezes and can't believe the size of what came out.
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In some of his commentary he describes just going for broke visually when he can't think of a good plot.
This might be one and I believe that the other is when he sneezes and can't believe the size of what came out.
This might be one and I believe that the other is when he sneezes and can't believe the size of what came out.
OMG. I supervised a brilliant MA dissertation on Grace O’Malley’s afterlife. And am now the owner of Grace O’Malley’s gin. 🤩
This is amazing. It is too early right now to check how female pirate gin tastes, right?
This is amazing. It is too early right now to check how female pirate gin tastes, right?
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
OMG. I supervised a brilliant MA dissertation on Grace O’Malley’s afterlife. And am now the owner of Grace O’Malley’s gin. 🤩
This is amazing. It is too early right now to check how female pirate gin tastes, right?
This is amazing. It is too early right now to check how female pirate gin tastes, right?
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*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
doi.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
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Basically, come and get the preview of exciting future publications! We can be time travellers together!
I *adore* it when we get to see a paper we hosted a version of at an @ihr.bsky.social seminar! This time; @annalunapost.bsky.social’s brilliant work on expert resistance & environmental thought @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
Exciting work for #SkyStorians into #EarlyModern #EnvHist or #LowCountries
Exciting work for #SkyStorians into #EarlyModern #EnvHist or #LowCountries
Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic*
Abstract. Historical scholarship has long highlighted the extensive landscape interventions initiated by state agents, early capitalists and experts in the
academic.oup.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Basically, come and get the preview of exciting future publications! We can be time travellers together!
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THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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That was a good strip.
I can't remember off hand how many years it and The Far Side overlapped.
I was gifted the 3 vol, full-colour harcover collection.
I could never decide it I was more Calvin or Hobbs, esp. with ones like this...
I can't remember off hand how many years it and The Far Side overlapped.
I was gifted the 3 vol, full-colour harcover collection.
I could never decide it I was more Calvin or Hobbs, esp. with ones like this...
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
That was a good strip.
I can't remember off hand how many years it and The Far Side overlapped.
I was gifted the 3 vol, full-colour harcover collection.
I could never decide it I was more Calvin or Hobbs, esp. with ones like this...
I can't remember off hand how many years it and The Far Side overlapped.
I was gifted the 3 vol, full-colour harcover collection.
I could never decide it I was more Calvin or Hobbs, esp. with ones like this...
You've got a couple of hours before the official sign-up window closes! Or just come to Bloomsbury tomorrow, it's lovely even in wintery conditions. (did I mention the excellent Sichuan food?)
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
You've got a couple of hours before the official sign-up window closes! Or just come to Bloomsbury tomorrow, it's lovely even in wintery conditions. (did I mention the excellent Sichuan food?)
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THIS COMING MONDAY! The fab @araujohistorian.bsky.social presents on "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the #EighteenthCentury" with comment by Toby Green.
All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
THIS COMING MONDAY! The fab @araujohistorian.bsky.social presents on "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the #EighteenthCentury" with comment by Toby Green.
All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
November 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
'Universities are communities of people and those within Scotland’s universities play a critical role in shaping our regions, our nation and our international reach and impact.'
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
Devolution dividend: staff matter too. A huge contrast to DfE/Jacqui Smith approach in Tuesday's testimony. 3/3
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This fits well with the "everyone is twelve" theory.
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This fits well with the "everyone is twelve" theory.
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3 days early for the 30th anniversary.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
3 days early for the 30th anniversary.
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"When God sings with his creations, ChatGPT will not be part of the choir." To me, a perfect opening line.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"When God sings with his creations, ChatGPT will not be part of the choir." To me, a perfect opening line.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
FRIDAY! Sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening, or get ready to send a picture of A Cool Tree to me in exchange for a clandestine route on Friday.
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
FRIDAY! Sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening, or get ready to send a picture of A Cool Tree to me in exchange for a clandestine route on Friday.
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The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925