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...
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Honestly completely irresponsible how press & policy makers rely on one man so obviously ideologically committed to a failed policy he drove through when he was special advisor to Willets.
He's spent his career lashing out about that, and press & policy makers have enabled him.
He's spent his career lashing out about that, and press & policy makers have enabled him.
January 23, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Honestly completely irresponsible how press & policy makers rely on one man so obviously ideologically committed to a failed policy he drove through when he was special advisor to Willets.
He's spent his career lashing out about that, and press & policy makers have enabled him.
He's spent his career lashing out about that, and press & policy makers have enabled him.
🤩 #LowCountries!
(and the #LowCountries seminar heard a previous version of this wonderful piece, in case you needed any incentive to join in Bloomsbury on Friday nights: you get the previous of brilliant research!) (and delicious Sichuan food. that too.)
(and the #LowCountries seminar heard a previous version of this wonderful piece, in case you needed any incentive to join in Bloomsbury on Friday nights: you get the previous of brilliant research!) (and delicious Sichuan food. that too.)
From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic”
by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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
doi.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 AM
🤩 #LowCountries!
(and the #LowCountries seminar heard a previous version of this wonderful piece, in case you needed any incentive to join in Bloomsbury on Friday nights: you get the previous of brilliant research!) (and delicious Sichuan food. that too.)
(and the #LowCountries seminar heard a previous version of this wonderful piece, in case you needed any incentive to join in Bloomsbury on Friday nights: you get the previous of brilliant research!) (and delicious Sichuan food. that too.)
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Getting a grip and sorting out HEI financing would help to reduce institutions' desperate scramble for students. Focus on the core problem, wicked though it is, and the secondary and tertiary problems will shrink.
Universities enrol hundreds of research students despite warnings
Some institutions respond to ‘explosive’ demand for MRes courses by expanding programmes, exacerbating concerns about potential government crackdown
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Getting a grip and sorting out HEI financing would help to reduce institutions' desperate scramble for students. Focus on the core problem, wicked though it is, and the secondary and tertiary problems will shrink.
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In our position paper we looked at how the core principles of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for #ResearchIntegrity applies to AI usage. @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @marentierra.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
doi.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:56 PM
In our position paper we looked at how the core principles of the Netherlands Code of Conduct for #ResearchIntegrity applies to AI usage. @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @jedbrown.org @marentierra.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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"However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind."
Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄
Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄
January 22, 2026 at 8:56 PM
"However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind."
Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄
Erm, no. We already knew that. It is a hyped black box built on plagiarised content + labour exploitation. The arrogance & lack of reflection 🙄
It took him two years to get this insight? And he’s not evaporated in a puff of shame but thinks he can pretend to be an insightful "case"?
[insert pithy remark about wishing to have the confidence and lack of self-awareness of mediocre white men here]
[insert pithy remark about wishing to have the confidence and lack of self-awareness of mediocre white men here]
YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS
AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 22, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It took him two years to get this insight? And he’s not evaporated in a puff of shame but thinks he can pretend to be an insightful "case"?
[insert pithy remark about wishing to have the confidence and lack of self-awareness of mediocre white men here]
[insert pithy remark about wishing to have the confidence and lack of self-awareness of mediocre white men here]
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This feels like the first clue in an elaborate treasure hunt
[477099-rustic-wooden-cabin].
January 22, 2026 at 8:40 AM
This feels like the first clue in an elaborate treasure hunt
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Absolutely, truly, so excited for this book!! I’ve read some but there’s nothing quite like a physical copy
January 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Absolutely, truly, so excited for this book!! I’ve read some but there’s nothing quite like a physical copy
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I wrote a short blog on the Court of Orphans probate inventories held @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
A fascinating source for anyone researching early modern social history or material culture 📜
Link below 👇
www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/the-pro...
A fascinating source for anyone researching early modern social history or material culture 📜
Link below 👇
www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/the-pro...
The Probate Inventories of the Court of Orphans
Probate Inventories of the Court of Orphans reveal hidden details about lives of Londoners, their businesses and women in the economy of early modern London
www.thelondonarchives.org
January 22, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I wrote a short blog on the Court of Orphans probate inventories held @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
A fascinating source for anyone researching early modern social history or material culture 📜
Link below 👇
www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/the-pro...
A fascinating source for anyone researching early modern social history or material culture 📜
Link below 👇
www.thelondonarchives.org/blog/the-pro...
LOL. "Well-respected". We haven't been "well-respected" for decades.
Oh, and if your plagiarism machine weren't so shit you wouldn't need to be so pathetic about it.
Oh, and if your plagiarism machine weren't so shit you wouldn't need to be so pathetic about it.
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 PM
LOL. "Well-respected". We haven't been "well-respected" for decades.
Oh, and if your plagiarism machine weren't so shit you wouldn't need to be so pathetic about it.
Oh, and if your plagiarism machine weren't so shit you wouldn't need to be so pathetic about it.
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.
Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
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Speaking of Flemish lace: rescued a thread of family stories/secrets from the other site.
Genuinely fascinated by those absences as much as by what we still have, scattered across the homes of uncles & aunts, and an occasional museum. (connecting threads + holes = lace, geddit, geddit?)
Genuinely fascinated by those absences as much as by what we still have, scattered across the homes of uncles & aunts, and an occasional museum. (connecting threads + holes = lace, geddit, geddit?)
(Im)material family inheritances
When during Lockdown Liverpool’s World Museum invited the internet to share stories about #PorcelainAtHome, it prompted my mum dug up from the cellar a box which she has opened but six times in her…
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January 21, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Speaking of Flemish lace: rescued a thread of family stories/secrets from the other site.
Genuinely fascinated by those absences as much as by what we still have, scattered across the homes of uncles & aunts, and an occasional museum. (connecting threads + holes = lace, geddit, geddit?)
Genuinely fascinated by those absences as much as by what we still have, scattered across the homes of uncles & aunts, and an occasional museum. (connecting threads + holes = lace, geddit, geddit?)
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That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM
That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians
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Flemish Lace Schools of interest to the #DHmakes crowd?
FIRST ONE IS NEXT FRIDAY! Who's joining us @ihr.bsky.social?
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
January 21, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Flemish Lace Schools of interest to the #DHmakes crowd?
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ik heb deze net ergens gevonden
January 21, 2026 at 9:05 PM
ik heb deze net ergens gevonden
ALSO: googling the 'Werkers-Lockefeer' lace factory gave me this picture supposedly of some of the women in Kieldrecht working for that factory which I didn't know existed.
I adore them.
From this webpage: www.blog.seniorennet.be/kantklossen/...
I adore them.
From this webpage: www.blog.seniorennet.be/kantklossen/...
January 21, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ALSO: googling the 'Werkers-Lockefeer' lace factory gave me this picture supposedly of some of the women in Kieldrecht working for that factory which I didn't know existed.
I adore them.
From this webpage: www.blog.seniorennet.be/kantklossen/...
I adore them.
From this webpage: www.blog.seniorennet.be/kantklossen/...
FIRST ONE IS NEXT FRIDAY! Who's joining us @ihr.bsky.social?
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
FIRST ONE IS NEXT FRIDAY! Who's joining us @ihr.bsky.social?
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Excited to be learning all about Flemish Lace Schools, #HistGender, and #HistReligion with David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social). Join us in Bloomsbury or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue: a celebration
Celebration of HWJ's 100th edition
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
January 20, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“The humanities simply don’t fit a corporate model because they are just not monetizable in the same way the sciences or even the social sciences are. And the deeper reason they’re coming under attack is that free thought and rigorous, free inquiry is dangerous to executive power.”
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WHOOP! #EarlyModern goings-on @qmulhss.bsky.social!
"Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention": book symposium with Raphaële Garrod, Kathryn Banks, Richard Scholar, Adrian Armstrong,Thibaut Maus de Rolley
25 Feb, 4pm
Free but register
cc @frenchhistory.bsky.social #SkyStorians
"Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention": book symposium with Raphaële Garrod, Kathryn Banks, Richard Scholar, Adrian Armstrong,Thibaut Maus de Rolley
25 Feb, 4pm
Free but register
cc @frenchhistory.bsky.social #SkyStorians
Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention
Book Symposium on Raphaële Garrod's "Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention"
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM
WHOOP! #EarlyModern goings-on @qmulhss.bsky.social!
"Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention": book symposium with Raphaële Garrod, Kathryn Banks, Richard Scholar, Adrian Armstrong,Thibaut Maus de Rolley
25 Feb, 4pm
Free but register
cc @frenchhistory.bsky.social #SkyStorians
"Francois Rabelais and the Renaissance Physiology of Invention": book symposium with Raphaële Garrod, Kathryn Banks, Richard Scholar, Adrian Armstrong,Thibaut Maus de Rolley
25 Feb, 4pm
Free but register
cc @frenchhistory.bsky.social #SkyStorians
Come and join this excellent gang! It's brilliant how much these ECRs have developed an insightful conversation across the years. #UrbanHistory #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
*Reposted CFP with alt text*
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Come and join this excellent gang! It's brilliant how much these ECRs have developed an insightful conversation across the years. #UrbanHistory #SkyStorians #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
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*Reposted CFP with alt text*
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
January 21, 2026 at 9:29 AM
*Reposted CFP with alt text*
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved
London, 11-12 June 2026
Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026
Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history
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'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'
January 20, 2026 at 1:20 PM
'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a library in possession of a good Jane Austen biography, must be in want of some googly eyes.'