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Chloë J. A. Pieters

@cjapieters.bsky.social
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River Farm Foundation Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Comparative Belgian and British history of the FWW (and beyond). She/her. History, history, it is a mystery. www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-piete…

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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14h
It Happened to Me: I Broke My Phone and Now I Can't Use My Bus Pass So I Have to Pay £3 to Get Home
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International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are excited to announce that the call for papers for our 15th Conference is now live! It will take place on 29 Sep-1 Oct 2027 at the University of Kyoto, Japan. The theme is 'Observation'. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 1 May. firstworldwarstudies.org/kyoto-2027/
The World Watches the European Conflagration, Itō Chūta, 13 September 1914
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Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ISFWWS is coming to Japan! The next conference is taking place in Kyoto and the call for papers is now live. Please, share with colleagues!
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Start of the year so it's time to crack out KU Leuven's guide to email etiquette: ppw.kuleuven.be/en/student-p...
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Email etiquette - What to pay attention to
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#JobFairy alert for #histSTM and modern british historians - 60 month post-doc at Newcastle Uni on the Wellcome Trust funded "The Night Shift 1850-present: Reimagining Sleep, Work and Wellbeing for Healthcare Professionals in English and Scottish Hospitals" 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...
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Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History) at Newcastle University
Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's all fun and games doing one of those footnotes listing every single piece of work on a topic but wowza do they takeup a chunk of the ol' word count
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a very interesting and cool thing for the #FWW folks in the audience 🗃️
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have any historians of Eastern Europe written about the challenge of travelling to and accessing archives in various countries there in recent years (say since 2020)? Especially Russia and Ukraine since 2022, of course, but perspectives on any country likely to be welcome!
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vulture culture (towards the end there's a reference to Anant Ambani's Vantara, interesting in the light of his appointment to Newcastle University) www.economist.com/1843/2026/04...
economist.com
How do you replace 40 million dead vultures?
The scavengers are vital for public health in India. But politics is interfering with efforts to breed them
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the start of summer I revised a reading list. It was something I wanted to do as three years of teaching has meant my approach has vastly improved...but this was a LOT of work which I was under no real obligation to do (the previous list was 'fine') for one more contracted year of teaching.
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Telling colleagues I ‘completed my summer project’ which they think is my book; but in fact it was watching the entirety of The Sopranos for the first time
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Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz @juliarsct.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So excited to see this in print! You can also catch the recording here if you prefer a different medium: youtu.be/yoaRVrmjDLw?...
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Dennis Showalter Lecture 2025 by Julia Ribeiro Thomaz: 'Poetry under fire'
YouTube video by International Society for First World War Studies
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Super fun day! Lots of chat (some of it even about the FWW! 😉), solidarity, and community
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team.
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is really worth listening to - an absolutely horrific report if soldiers and settlers shooting on children at a school (cw: child death) www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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The Palestinian school under siege – podcast
At least five pupils at a village school in the West Bank have been killed in the last year by settlers and soldiers. Emma Graham-Harrison reports on how the school found itself on the frontline, whil...
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The story about academia was always that you were a bright young person who would make more money elsewhere - you were in it for the vocation, the good quality of life, the stability and benefits of employment, the pension, and the prestige of being in a respected profession
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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Decided to start writing and by some miracle the vacuum cleaner entered my hand
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Feel like my reputation as a Dutch-speaking and -using (though not writing) scholar is secure now that I'm receiving scam emails in Dutch!
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Keir Starmer murmuring 'not so easy now is it, John' www.ft.com/content/fc92...
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	Chancellor John Healey will shelve his own target of spending 3 per cent of Britain’s GDP on defence by 2030 when he presents his first Budget in October, with tough decisions on how to fund the military pushed down the track."
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Musing on this more and it does seem odd I can't think of (m)any, especially historical works - only 20-odd years separated the occupations of the world wars and many must have lived through both. (My great-grandmother, b.1907, spent the FWW as a refugee so didn't experience both occupations per se)
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Does anyone know of any memoirs, autobiographies and histories that focus on the experiences of people who lived through both First and Second World War occupations in Europe?
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Interesting CfP exploring a fascinating set of questions in a great city. Unfortunately there's no way I can attend because of the dates, but YOU could apply - deadline 05/10 www.centrewarviolence.uliege.be/cms/c_129452...
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War, Militarism, and Society: Organising Life for Destruction
Workshop - War, Militarism, and Society: Organising Life for Destruction - Call for Papers
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
4%!!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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No more UK energy bills support likely before price cap rise
Andy Burnham stops short of pledging further help as gas and electricity prices due to increase by 4% in October
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Every time a political columnist recommends a contribution payment-based healthcare model I think of my dad, who spent the last months of his life very ill, with sustained internal bleeding that would eventually kill him, chasing up hospitals who had billed him incorrectly following a major collapse
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The shape of British fascism in the wake of war was articulated by Clemence Dane, in The Arrogant History of White Ben - a book hard to recommend given it is a) long, b) with quite dense and not consistently compelling prose and c) out of print and yet I do keep recommending it
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Economist's wide-eyed faux naivety on weight loss - extremely grating!
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Bought the official third edition of the Life in the UK handbook for the test and although it's been updated for 2026, my version (bought through the official channel on the official website!) still says the UK is operating in Afghanistan
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bemused by the commenters who seem to think this has any genuinely meaningful impact on public finances www.ft.com/content/6913...
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Top UK civil servant received record £500,000 payout after Starmer sacking
Sudden circumstances of Chris Wormald’s exit led to a much more generous settlement than initially thought
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Annotating books may or may not be annoying but what is VERY annoying is the idea that books have to be kept pristine. I read Ulysses in the bath and it wrecked the copy but the experience was sublime. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop annotating her books?
Julie makes notes in the margin as she’s reading, but Charlie says she’s ruining books he may want to read. Should they get on the same page? You decide
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I'm spending my summer productively (watching The Sopranos for the first time) and cannot wait to use the phrase "of course no-one wants all-out conflict, but historically, historical changes have come out of war" when teaching starts again, thank you Little Carmine! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzk2...
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Little Carmine Discuss His Position In The Lupertazzi Family - The Sopranos HD
YouTube video by TonySoprano
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Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
wonkhe.com/blogs/a-grad... Good article on the hard hat vs graduation cap commentary
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A graduate earnings premium, or parity of esteem for non-graduates?
Omar Khan traces the contours of two contradictory national discussions on higher education
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Why aren't women having more babies" well have you seen how the women who are having babies are being treated www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Babies will be born in laybys’: maternity cuts leave women with stark choices in Devon
Concerns about feeling pressure to have caesarean section, or paying for hotel in Exeter after hospital in Barnstaple suspends birthing services
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is the hardline approach many British people consistently communicate they want for all of us immigrants, even long term ones, though www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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British widow, 78, told to leave Sweden under Brexit rules after living there for 21 years
Authorities say application to stay was made too late, as UK officials say Sweden takes ‘stricter approach’ than other EU countries
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There's a 20-year age gap between my mother and her mother; a 34-year age gap between my mother and me; if I have children there will be a minimum of 40 years between my child and me. Insisting on care from family only isn't realistic giving changing demography www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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What if older people refuse help outside the family? This is the taboo that could wreck care reform | Emily Kenway
Many fear losing their independence if they agree to care workers looking after them. Any social care review must take this on board, says Emily Kenway, a social policy doctoral researcher
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Currently in Edinburgh and organically, in the streets, heard someone say ‘I was not a big fan of the early release scheme so very pleased with what we heard today’ so there you go
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
!!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Burnham announces bus fares across England to be capped at £2
Measure to cost more than £500m, with money allocated to allow devolved nations to do the same
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Anyway back to my chapter on comparative occupation policy and experience of the FWW, for which I've been reading about occupation regimes far beyond my personal research scope and which has been enormously rewarding (of course) but also, openly, very time consuming
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
As an ECR comparativist, I offer the reflection that comparative history is hard and extremely time consuming. I work across three languages: it would be better to have four. To master multiple legal regimes, bureaucracies, governments and societies I must read a huge amount of secondary literature
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I’m thinking also about how the idea of ‘encounter’ which I’ve seen a lot of work on in recent years from various historians including Anna Maguire injects the transnational and comparative ever further into FWW studies
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If you’re not into swans, there’s a wonderful and affectionate kitten at TNA today
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I always say that a genuine enjoyment of baffling surrealism is a characteristic Belgian trait
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Plush toy of a lion with a mane in the colours of the Belgian flag wearing a Belgian football shirt
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Found for free on the walk in
The Castle Diaries 1974-76 by Barbara Castle
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Regret missing the opportunity to make a ‘dierbaar’ pun
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Zo lang dat hij kan klauwen, zolang hij tanden heeft
Plushie of a lion with a Belgian flag for a mane
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Writing with Bird by Bird by my side to dip into for encouragement when I need it
Bird by bird by Anne Lamott
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oxfordshire County Council vetoing devolution plans and a mayor for the Thames Valley area? In Andy Burnham's Britain?!
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's worth reading Frank Trentmann's scathingly critical essay about the historical assumptions of the Life in the UK Test, from a few years ago. historyjournal.org.uk/2020/09/11/b... I use this when teaching students an introductory module about British politics and history.
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Britain First: The official history of the United Kingdom according to the Home Office – a critical review
Frank Trentmann BRITAIN FIRST: The official history of the United Kingdom according to the Home Office – a critical review Following this summer’s open letter to the Home Office, this a…
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This one is genuinely confusing - I always do the first (nothing) but the test wants you to pick four - again, full of ideology (and idealism?) about what living in modern Britain is actually like - and of course the 'should' in the question implies it's a requirement when it's not at all!
Life in the UK test question 'What should you do when you move into a new house or apartment?'. The answers are do nothing, warn the people who live near not to talk to you, tell the people who live near you not to make noise, introduce yourself to the people who live near you so they can help you
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