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
There are some really good ones like this one which brings a new meaning to 'cutting the half-time orange', but a NSFW one for Mother's Day was truly exceptional, a legend, but the headline is a bit much for me to put on public-facing social media
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There are some really good ones like this one which brings a new meaning to 'cutting the half-time orange', but a NSFW one for Mother's Day was truly exceptional, a legend, but the headline is a bit much for me to put on public-facing social media
My favourite, much returned-to example
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
My favourite, much returned-to example
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 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
Nice afternoon
October 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Nice afternoon
Teaching the history of masculinity
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Teaching the history of masculinity
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 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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!
Found an old notebook which is mostly empty but contains, for reasons lost to the mists of time and memory, a biography of the Empress Theodora (misspelled)
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Found an old notebook which is mostly empty but contains, for reasons lost to the mists of time and memory, a biography of the Empress Theodora (misspelled)
You can’t crack open a novel these days
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You can’t crack open a novel these days
How tender the heart of the girliepop who sent her boyfriend a flower by letter in 1917. Over 100 years later, I looked at it, too.
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How tender the heart of the girliepop who sent her boyfriend a flower by letter in 1917. Over 100 years later, I looked at it, too.
God even on the most cursed of days…I just love a cathedral of learning
September 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
God even on the most cursed of days…I just love a cathedral of learning
I don’t want to exaggerate the personal aspect here - I’m covered by this, though would Farage care about an international contract? But by god migrants have got to stick together here on this one - we’re who we’ve got, and an injury to one is an injury to all
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I don’t want to exaggerate the personal aspect here - I’m covered by this, though would Farage care about an international contract? But by god migrants have got to stick together here on this one - we’re who we’ve got, and an injury to one is an injury to all
Forcing people to give up their birth citizenship for a passport we’ve already been told is unstable, because the government would retrospectively change the rules of engagement on entry and eligibility, is a fool’s game
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Forcing people to give up their birth citizenship for a passport we’ve already been told is unstable, because the government would retrospectively change the rules of engagement on entry and eligibility, is a fool’s game
A colleague recommended William Germano’s From Dissertation to Book to me when I described my crippling, painful paralysis about my thesis revisions, and it has been a short and reassuring read
September 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A colleague recommended William Germano’s From Dissertation to Book to me when I described my crippling, painful paralysis about my thesis revisions, and it has been a short and reassuring read
I don’t know if the college has adopted a cat, but a cat certainly seems to have adopted the college
September 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I don’t know if the college has adopted a cat, but a cat certainly seems to have adopted the college
Odd wording from the FT considering Rooney is Irish and living in Ireland - you could argue it’s just saying Rooney is famous in Britain, but there are more effective ways to express that
August 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Odd wording from the FT considering Rooney is Irish and living in Ireland - you could argue it’s just saying Rooney is famous in Britain, but there are more effective ways to express that
I cannot, in fact, make my upcoming appointment (I have an open cut that hasn’t healed) so if you can donate blood please do!!!
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
I cannot, in fact, make my upcoming appointment (I have an open cut that hasn’t healed) so if you can donate blood please do!!!
In 2014 this photo a friend took of me at a nice dinner made me cry because I thought I looked awful and it triggered years of disordered eating and dieting so no, I wouldn't wish my 20s back, really.
August 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
In 2014 this photo a friend took of me at a nice dinner made me cry because I thought I looked awful and it triggered years of disordered eating and dieting so no, I wouldn't wish my 20s back, really.
Fascinated by a series of slightly differently-worded searches and very different AI overviews
July 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Fascinated by a series of slightly differently-worded searches and very different AI overviews
Knew I’d forgotten one
June 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Knew I’d forgotten one
Of course I worked all weekend!
The work:
The work:
June 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Of course I worked all weekend!
The work:
The work:
A reminder of the truly extraordinary debt female scholars have to those who fought so hard so we would have the right to research and teach so lightly, without thinking about it
May 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A reminder of the truly extraordinary debt female scholars have to those who fought so hard so we would have the right to research and teach so lightly, without thinking about it
Radical idea: employers train your employees
May 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Radical idea: employers train your employees
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes www.ft.com/content/1094...
May 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes www.ft.com/content/1094...