Liesbeth Corens

Has any sector so spectacularly failed the “what would you have done under the Nazis” test?

Hear all about lace-makers @ihr.bsky.social on 30 January!

We'll hear from David Hopkin ( @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) about "Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion"

Everybody welcome, sign up for the zoom link or join us in Bloomsbury! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

THE ACTUAL CASTLE.

Screenshot of a linkedin post by Brewery Caberdouche announcing they're brewing 'steenbier', beer for the castle 't Steen from now on. because they both love heritage and antwerp and bringing heritage into the present Not visible: me being overexcited about my big brother BREWING FOR THE ACTUAL CASTLE OF ANTWERP

My brother's brewery is brewing beer for THE ACTUAL CASTLE OF ANTWERP now!! HOW COOL IS THAT?? 🏰🍻

Have you performed evil or displayed diabolic spectres between 1700 and 2000? Consider submitting an abstract!

CFP!

Special issue of the journal Religions

"Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"

www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...)

under NO condition book a ticket. Just go and hang out in the lobby of the VUE.

(I can imagine you might meet a couple of London newsbeat reporters in the process as well 😅)

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

American Association of University Professors v. Rubio

Read the unsealed documents under Legal Filings, D. Mass., January 22, 2026, on our website: knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v...

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests

Last week, Judge William G. Young unsealed hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted as evidence in our legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian activism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Not funnier though. 1 is so much funnier than 0.

The things we do for a cup of caffeine. (This was a very small attic with a tiny kitchen; my hoards, while ever-present, had to be adapted to scale. Or, well, at least not tie-me over for a year…)

Bit weird to have just watched All The President’s Men.

Money can buy the truth, from the sounds if it.

screenshot of a twitter thread reading: Obviously -- obviously -- this is the night I bump into my downstairs neighbour for the first time, who responded to my sweatily shifting milk to feed an army with "You sure do like to drink a lot of tea."

😆 I'd forgotten this part.
The English are weird.

picture of eight cardboard boxes with six cartons of milk in each. Not visible: that I had to slog them all the way to the attack.

LOL.

I, a household of one, may at some point in 2019 have misunderstood what the Milk entry on the online grocery shopping platform was... (trouble was: in 2019 I lived in an attic, and not one with any elevator)

@jim.londoncentric.media please track down the 1 person who attended Melania: The Movie's premiere

Banner that reads Protest Banner Lending Library.

Flyer from Chicago Public Library that gives instructions on how to check out a protest banner.

Chicago Public Library is doing some amazing work.

The Newberry is noncirculating. BUT we have plenty of inspiration... americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-sc...

God I love libraries.

It appears to have been Laying Out Soothingly Neat Patterns Of Old Stuff On A Table day today.

I feel there's a boardgame to be developed out of this.

early modern woodcut of an apothecary stirring a pot, with two customers approaching.

Next Thursday! @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social will be at @ihrscb.bsky.social to talk about 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'

Register here to attend this in-person event at @ihr.bsky.social:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Charity After Empire Cambridge Core - Global History - Charity After Empire

I'm really looking forward to reading Matthew Hilton's timely new @universitypress.cambridge.org book Charity after Empire: British Humanitarianism, Decolonisation, and Development.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

(I still REALLY want, but have no energy to fight for it: five-minute oral discussions of those essays. Best way to ensure they at least have to understand what they submitted, whatever the involvement of AI, and if you stick to those five minutes it would be a way of speeding up writing feedback)

Folks who are involved in running BA History programmes in the UK: have you reintroduced invigilated exams recently? Did you never get rid of them? are you keeping them gone? Am trying to get a sense of how colleagues in other unis are addressing the issue of AI and assessments.

Admittedly, I partly want it to be able to add 'VIOLENCE' to my diary on a regular basis.

Genuinely excited about your book -- I've been worried about how illiterate so many are on that.

In History we haven't. Some of us have been getting other assessments on the books (reflective reports, portfolio, Other Stuff To Show Our Students Are Better Than AI), but we also just had a 'programme level assessment' introduced which is two essays a term, taking from in-module assessment. 🙃

A: this is going to be vital
B: @kimatiwagner.bsky.social let's get that Violence centre set up. Presto.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.