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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There is no better way to reinforce a status hierarchy in the UK between London, Manchester, Edinburgh vs an angry rest than to remove access to the study and expression of cultural heritage and diversity through an enforced provincialisation of regional Britain.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest

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Svetovid @svetovid.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This makes total sense. They definitely open up unknown dimensions when they yawn and their mouth somehow gets 3/4ths of their little bodies.

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Photographing the Calder Valley: or social history at the “mouth of hell”. Matthew Hilton with Aditya Chakrabortty 19 November 2026, 6pm, Queen Mary University, London E1 PhotographingCalderValley.eventbrite.co.uk @qmcbs.bsky.social

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Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

friends who work on convents & religious women: a PhD student is looking for info about S. Chiara in Pistoia. Has been to the archives. Now looking for any relevant or helpful older or newer pubs #nuntastic #earlymodern

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

YAY! Tickets now available! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-2026-a... Stefan Collini on '"Serious, but not narrowly professional”: the idea of a university-based general periodical in post-war Britain'. Should make for great conversation about the role of universities in 'serious' public discourse #UKHE

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... or for the excitement of finding out if the modernist is going to live up to the expectations he raises among the premodernists when mentioning hellmouths. We're going to need some slightly-bored-looking, slightly-feline-looking hellmouths.

mouth of hell by an unknown dutch artist ca 1440. it's about three cat-like faces in to each other, bringing forth little devils

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ah, this is going to be SO GOOD! And we're luring Aditya Chakrabortty to Mile End! Do join if you've got even just a passing interest in #SocialHistory, #BritishHistory, #UrbanHistory, history of photography, or a bunch of cool brains in one room. #SkyStorians

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Towns such as Halifax in the Calder Valley feature little in an otherwise thriving historiography of contemporary Britain. Yet for an earlier generation of social historian, most notably E. P. Thompson, who wrote The Making of the English Working Class while living there, such towns were crucial to understanding the processes of industrialisation and capitalist modernity. How can we include such places in more purposeful narratives of the more recent past? How do we write inclusive histories of belonging for the residents of these towns that do not consign them to being ‘left behind’, as though their histories are only considered to explain their ‘unmaking’ and marginalisation: towards an overdetermined present of post-Brexit Britain, flags and Reform?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're slowly getting to me! It's terrifying! In my defence: those modernists are getting cool people to campus, it's cheating, really.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For all their declarations about anticipating any need and making our lives easier, the robots still fail at the very basic task of Understanding Your Audience. I could not be more of an open book -- I have been told before to be less of an open book. How has this been pushed onto my opening page?

screenshot of linkedin from a Yacht broker trying to sell me, a single millenial on an UK academic salary in London, a yacht.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh, this entire script is AI. At Least I hope. Because if these are human-produced words, I'd actually prefer the robots, they at least mimic emotion.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's going to be 'engagement opportunities' and 'listening exercises', so we're lucky. For six-seven weeks. That's how we're going to get shared objectives. six weeks in the middle of term. With the 'strategy' they're already implementing.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Made the mistake of listening to the all-staff presentation management is putting on, and so now I have absolutely zero hope the sector is worth salvaging even. On the plus side, manager has called it 'transactional education', and that must be the only truthful thing they've said.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yes! Loved the *slight* pressure on us now at the end :) I must grab one of your books and see if I notice your techniques (I was particularly struck that you leave some aspects of which we have few details in a sketch form for the reader to fill in; wonder what the academic writing equivalent is)

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very sorry to hear you lost your fluffy friends -- though happy to evoke beautiful memories. They're such sweet, characterful creatures! I'm missing our animated conversations.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was going to say 'not now, Plague'. But this is very much his scene, isn't it? He's going to hang out with his fellow horse riders.

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Bernhard Huss @bernhardhuss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Somehow the plague had been missing from the overall scenario.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Her Covid take during All The Covid Takes was also the one that was insightful and interesting and not a repeat of all the takes that came before. What a brain.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed! And have a way of making you feel very guilty about it. The geriatric lady of the two was climbing all over things she hasn't climbed over for years just to be closer and keep an eye 🥺😭

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am tired of AI takes, but I will admit that the person whose AI take I’d love to read is Lorraine Daston.* *admittedly, her take on absolutely anything, she could be insightful about crocuses if she so chooses, but that that still includes AI means I really do want to hear her thoughts…

Daston’s article from Little Tools of Knowledge. Transcription The second snare is to assume that objectivity was always a title to authority, or, still worse, to conflate all exercise of authority with invocations of objectivity. There is good reason to believe that the earliest formulations of the ideals and practices of scientific objectivity in the mid-nineteenth century were apologetic retreats from far more ambitious ideals of truth discovered through genial interpretation and sage judgment. Far from wielding greater authority, the early proponents of scientific objectivity surrendered their traditional license to judge, interpret, and generalize (Daston and Galison
1992). Episodes in the history of quantification in the public domain also suggest that recourse to numbers is often a confession of political weakness and a loss of personal discretion, rather than the assertion of unassailable authority (Porter 1995).

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

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Kees Ribbens @histk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The latest BMGN Low Countries Historical Review (open access!) is devoted to history comics in the Low Countries. Yasco Horsman & I had the pleasure of working with the talented Eeva Langeveld, Maaheen Ahmed, Michel De Dobbeleer, Rik Spanjers and Tobi Dahmen bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view... Read it now!

Cover of BMGN LCHR vol.141 nr.3 2026 showing a self portrait of comic artist Tobi
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You’re here!!! Thanks so much for this, it is absolutely wonderful!

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Tobi Dahmen @tobidahmen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nou, wie zou dat zijn 🤓?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pet sitting is the best, you get to hang out with the cutest little furry friends for a while. But leaving pet sitting is the absolute worst, as your little furry buds observe your every move, staying as close as possible, and seem a bit lost.

Picture of two adorable Siamese cats half snoozing on each other yet also looking slightly menacing as they lock eyes with you. And the claws. The claws help with the menace. No, of course I didn’t take pictures of them looking lost while I was packing and they got themselves in impossible positions to stay close, I’m not heartless, I went and cuddled them. Doesn’t help with the pace of packing, but…

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

FEEST! @emlcjournal.bsky.social bestaat tien jaar en dat verdient taart! Als ook een panelgesprek over de toekomst van onderzoek naar de vroegmoderne Nederlanden, en een museumbezoek met flitspresentaties door auteurs van ons jubileumnummer. Gratis registratie: www.eventbrite.com/e/tienjarig-...

invite for the 10 year anniversary of the Early Modern Low Countries journal at the Hof van Busleyden (in Mechelen) on 4 December between 13:00 and 17:00

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oooo! Hurrah! The BMGN Forum about historical comic books is out! It’s got Suske & Wiske, which is vital for this Antwerpenaar, and also a reflection on what it is to make historical comics books by an author, IN COMIC BOOK FORM. 🤩 bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...

Screenshot of one of the pages of the comic book, with the author reflecting on how to frame (literally and metaphorically) sometimes very heavy stories

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

VAN EYCK! For the love of god, phone. Get on with the programme. Especially because he’s coming to London: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/...

Van Eyck’s self portrait with a red turban

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ah, congratulations!!! Looks fascinating!

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Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...

A screenshot of a journal article page titled “Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469,” by Barry Torch, with an abstract in English and Italian, followed by the section heading “Premise” and the opening paragraph. The page is from Renaissance and Reformation, Winter 2026.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ok, I really like porridge, and found the whole idea of salty porridge weird. But nobody told me you could add some many delish looking flavours to it! This sounds amazing, and I am now very curious and possibly joining you in your 60-something lifestyle.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hang on, employers are now asking in reference requests about the number of days people have been absent for sickness? People are allowed to be sick. Tutors don't keep such a record. What on earth are they trying to gauge from that?

calvin & hobbes cartoon: calvin is lying in bed with a thermometer in his mouth though smiling quite happily as he watches tv

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

have I seen it??? Have I cursed the fact that I don't have my lecture on the reformations this year (and have a pact with myself that my powerpoints don't have popular culture on it apart from Calvin & Hobbes, since they're timeless)? Perfect meme. And it was already funny before the AI crusade.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes! Love how much movement there is. Not really a depiction I’m familiar with, but how joyful!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you have a sense of when it was made?

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no ‘too much’ in this case. Look at his little pipe! Look at the movement in those papers fluttering along whatever it is you want to write! A very well-done purchase.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Same, same. Raised in a household where the Vatican was cussed out on a weekly basis & surrounded by the books by liberation theologians and people-who-only-narrowly-escaped-excommunication-but-for-the-kind-reasons. Plus: I’m the one who mentions conciliarism in an argument over how power works.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah, the mental exhaustion of this is enormous.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I fully support you in this endeavour.

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I feel like commenting with a screenshot of the Pope's tweet under every AI slop poster on fb made by a Catholic org (and there are a LOT)

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#WhatIAmReading It's @onslies.bsky.social fault. After she posted about it 365 times I finally managed to get the last second-hand copy on this side of the Atlantic. 📚

A book on top of a magazine. The book is Natalie Zemon Davis: A Passion for History. Conversations with Denis Crouzet. The magazine is De Groene Amsterdammer and has Michel.Foucault on the cover.

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