Liesbeth Corens @onslies Twitter profile

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Liesbeth Corens

4 years

oh, hi there, this is just a nonchalant tweet to pin so people who look at my profile see the #histarchives as well as the #MovingHistory stuff. Confessional Mobility: Archives & Information: Social History:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

1 year

@JuliaLaite In Conception Bay. CONCEPTION BAY. Someone seems to have forgotten to turn on the subtlety filter on the planet today.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

OMG. I assumed people were wildly misinterpreting this when they said the archives would be destroying the physical copies after a digital copy was made. But nope: 'The consultation is seeking views on keeping hard copies for about 25 years'. Scholarly opinion: This is bananas.

Ministry of Justice

@MoJGovUK

8 months

Are you a history or ancestry enthusiast? We’re proposing to digitise millions of wills dating back to the 1800s, making them easier for the public to access. Take a fascinating look into our storage archive in Birmingham and have your say:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

Sometimes humanity isn't all that bad. These are the right priorities delivered with immaculate, aesthetic, execution.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

It's mindnumbing that (a) the British Library has to go into the reserves to salvage this rather than get government support and (b) that £7 million is apparently 40% of its reserves. That's a flagship institution. That's a cultural keystone. and flipping hell.

Jack Surfleet

@jacksurfleet

8 months

Saturday's FT WEEKEND: British Library reels from cyber hit #tomorrowspaperstoday

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

@superteadrinker ... luckily she found a job in tv instead.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 months

Oh no. I had to look at a submitted small grant application again and noticed this remaining comment... Do we think they'll admire I use punctuation?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

They're framing it as if keeping records of all the 'little people' (you'll be assured to know that they'll keep Diana's physical will) is costing 'the tax payer' too much money. a: you elitist twats b: DIGITAL STORAGE COSTS SO MUCH MONEY c: consult the BL. Oh, no, you can't.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

Once again, I’m going to have to ask you to make your kids clothing in adult size.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

They allowed the Dutch *super* close to the coffin. Have you learnt nothing from 1688, Britain?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

Hugh Trevor Roper: lethal shading by index entry.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

1 year

(Hi, a student emailed to ask if I knew who had scab marked their dissertation because it wasn’t the grade they expected, and I had to run out of the writing session to go and pace around to calm down, because: no indeed, not the grades they deserve, not the treatment I deserve)

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

9 months

gentleyam. GENTLEYAM.

Jorts (and Jean)

@JortsTheCat

9 months

I smelled your lunch. Smells bad

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

They didn't do an Impact Assessment? THEY DIDN'T DO AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT. The utter disdain for the expertise of people who actually know about this stuff in pretending you can just make stuff up and say it's to 'save tax payers' money'. It is too much.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

Ah, Easter, also known as the day to share one of the best @nakedpastor cartoons.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Vindows. Vindows is right there.

Mark Rees

@reviewwales

4 years

Welcome back, wine holes! "Medieval ‘wine windows’ are reopening, reviving Italian plague tradition"

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

It's the exception for the rich & famous really really galls me. Wills are notoriously one of the cool ways through which we write social histories. For some people of the past it's the only thing we hold in national archives. It's very telling about who they think belong.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

They really did this! They really made a virtual tour of the ENTIRE VAN EYCK EXHIBITION! (two even, one for adults, one for kids.) This is ~glorious~. #medievaltwitter #LowCountries #VanEyckFan

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

My name is Liesbeth, I have been on this planet for three decades, I have gathered an unnecessary number of degrees, but I still get giddily excited when the front seat on the top of the double decker is free for me to go and pretend I'm flying.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

AAARRRGGGH. Also, the consultation is only via email. I'm hoping brilliant institutions like @RoyalHistSoc & @BritishAcademy_ are working on some advocacy to get people to condemn this into smithereens?

Easier access to historic wills under new government plans

Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).

www.gov.uk

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 years

OUT NOW: The Social History of the #archive : Record-Keeping in #earlymodern Europe @PastPresentSoc

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

I must have been *very* nice this year, because Sinterklaas has brought me the best present: MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY! #twitterstorians must also have also been good as @OUPHistory has a 30% sale on at the moment. Only £42 with code HOLIDAY18:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

We have a cover. I repeat: WE HAVE A COVER! 😍

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

I can continue to give you my profanity-laden reading of the consultation document, or you can listen to the guy who literally wrote the book about dangers of wilful destruction of records and the knowledge they carry.

Richard Ovenden

@richove

8 months

Destroying these originals is a seriously bad idea. Digitization expends one form of access but destruction of originals would end another form. The cost of storage of originals, & the cost of digital access should be regarded as part of the infrastructure of an open society.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

😍 final proofs! final proofs! final proofs!

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

1 year

Fucking hell. In case anyone thought that if they just played the game set out for them, jumped through all the hoops, then they at least would be safe no matter the binfire of the rest of the sector: the History Department came first in REF. Act now. Compliance won't save you.

Helen Gittos

@Helen_Gittos

1 year

52 academics in Arts and Humanities @UniKent are at risk of compulsory redundancy despite assurances. Many are friends & colleagues & they include professors, Fellows of @BritishAcademy_ , brilliant tutors & great scholars...

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

AMAZING (unrealised) plan for @theUL : spiral building so it can keep expanding to incorporate growing collection. Living collection architecturally expressed! Via: Arnold Hunt

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

Where we are with the Brexit mess by now: English students saying "That's just so Brexit" to describe anything mindblowingly stupid.

Lia van Bekhoven

@LiavanBekhoven

7 years

LOL. Gehoord. Engelse scholieren in supermarkt: 'that's just so Brexit'. In betekenis van iets superdom vinden.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

oh, why did nobody inform me we're allowed to do that? This is exactly like when I found out we could put "this came to me in a dream" as a footnote, about two years into my PhD.

Dr Amy Lim

@amylimart

4 years

I’m sorry, what?!

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

@anne_theriault I have lived here for 8 years and still haven't cracked the code. I think the Brits have a secret communication channel where they announce what the definition of tea is for that day so they can all pretend to foreigners that *obviously* it means that.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

eeeeeeeeeeep!! Absolutely *chuffed* to receive this prize from a brilliant #reformazing organisation! Encouraging to continue conversations about European-wide #earlymodern religion!

REFORC

@REFORConsortium

5 years

Liesbeth Corens @onslies wins RefoRC Book Award 2019 #RefoRC2019

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

They've anticipated the calls for preserving the hard copies by casting that as 'emotional' and 'sentimental', as opposed to the rationality of destruction. Their manipulation is so transparent it is nauseating.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 months

My dudes, I can't even get them to adhere to a referencing style.

katie honan

@katie_honan

4 months

The mayor has moved on from saying "outside agitators" infiltrated Columbia's protests to saying there could be a bad professor out there "radicalizing" students.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

OMG OMG OMG, three nuns (30, 60, and 90 years old) in Belgium refuse to have their convent-of-three disbanded by Rome and are considering becoming beguines to get rid of Vatican oversight and to attract new members. #nuntastic ? #nuntastic .

Klooster in Halle moet dicht van Vaticaan, maar zusters Sacramentinnen willen niet wijken

www.vrt.be

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

That email that I've been avoiding for two weeks, and which has been keeping me awake at night? 5 minutes. 5 minutes is all the stupid thing took. Why do I keep doing this to myself?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

I’ve always been confused about what becoming a fellow of the RHS meant, and never really prioritised applying. But @RoyalHistSoc has been doing such important work to make the profession more inclusive lately, I’m really pleased to be one of the gang and join in.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

Well, senior white men, had you actually *read* my book before Pace-ing it, you would have known I do NOT claim that and you would not have misrepresented my work. It's almost as if senior white men of English Catholic history feel threatened and want to keep other voices out.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 months

@RebeccaSolnit Loving the way @nakedpastor put it:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

1 year

What the hell are we doing. You know how I keep banging on about the main problem being the lack of accountability in senior management? Yeah, that, but at all levels.

Financial Times

@FT

1 year

Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

I’m a workaholic perfectionist with a pathological need to please people, especially people in authority. The next couple of weeks are going to be… a *challenge*…

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

GUYS, GUYS, GUYS, Archives & Information in the #Earlymodern World is now available digitally! #yayarchives ! See here on the @BritishAcademy_ website: #histarchives #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #bookhistory

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 months

Oh, yikes, UK Higher Education has unlocked a whole new type of academic event. You've heard of seminars, of conferences, of inaugurals, of prize ceremonies, may we introduce: the wake for a shuttered previously stellar department? (the dates 😰 nearly 60)

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

Twitter, meet your new protagonist: Scarlett. Eight weeks old and criminally cute.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

The #crapmiracles tag combines three of my favourite things: - history of religious practices - people in the past being a whole lot less Ancient Dignified & Serious™ than you somehow often assume - historians collectively going "OooOo, let me tell you about this amazing story"

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 months

@NicholasGuyatt Did you… photoshop the podium bigger?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

After all the nausea-inducing selfies of the fascists in the senate have been used for facial recognition and severe fines and imprisonments, I kind of want this to be the image that sticks: justifiably scared staffers who still remembered to save the toolboxes of democracy.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

My parents’ living room is decorated with the speculaas moulds from my (great-great-)grandfather’s bakery. My mum bought a new speculaas mould to try if we can make the family recipe with moulds as well. I’m sure there’s a metaphor about modernisation in this pic.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

Oh. Good times. Now my own university is teaming up with essay mills.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

1 month

This is how you deal with the far right: you don't. You're never going to change their mind, they're only going to change your actions.

Sorcha Ní Nia

@Luiseach

1 month

I’d already seen the rock-paper-scissors moment but the longer video is even better imo. sheer disdain among the newly-elected Deputies in France’s Parliament for the far-right

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

WAAAA! My *own* book, not the edited collections, but the monograph, the beast, the thing that really couldn't be tamed a couple of years ago is now on pre-order on the @OUPHistory website: My face:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

And you complain when your computer says your new password needs a capital letter, a number, a special symbol, an imaginary number, a prime number, and a hieroglyph.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

Delightful. How much do we want to end up with a State Papers and EEBO situation, where only places like Oxford and Cambridge can afford access?

Matthew Sweet

@DrMatthewSweet

8 months

As I've yet to see a single professional librarian or archivist speak in favour of this plan, it'd be good to know why this @MoJGovUK video is just an employee of the digitisation company @IRMDataCenters making the very contentious claim that digitisation "preserve[s] forever".

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

@Knack Dit is dus waarom je meer diversiteit in je redactie moet hebben, zodat iemand je kan uitleggen dat dit heel irritant stereotyperen is.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

10 months

There is no way of measuring the immensity of NZD's impact. How many had that spark ignited from one of her books? How many refused to give up on a sometimes hurtfully competitive sector because she modelled another way? How many continue to be curious because she celebrated it?

Paul Cohen  @paulecohen.bsky.social

@Paul_E_Cohen

10 months

deeply saddened to announce that Natalie Zemon Davis has passed away her work on early modern European cultural history profoundly shaped the thinking of generations of scholars her warmth & generosity touched the lives of so many family, friends, students colleagues & comrades

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

@royalsociety excellent timing. Glossing over eugenics on the day an avid adherent of it is put uncomfortably close to number 10. This is what we mean when we say reporting and remembering aren’t neutral. Hope you realise your responsibility.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

A: Eek! Prize! B: It also says medal, which sounds swish and now I want a physical one. May go and get myself a chocolate medal…

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

No, *you* just ordered yourself a Bookbinding Starters Kit to have something, anything to look forward to.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

English, you cruelest of tongues. I got excited for someone who mailed "I'm having kittens!" &only *just* in time googled if it was an idiom

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

THIS WEEK! Archives & Information is out THIS WEEK! <flaps hands around in excitement> #yayarchives ! #histarchives #earlymodern #twitterstorians #bookhistory

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

And that is immensely unhealthy. Can we stop glorifying the culture of overwork? It does not produce better scholarship, it does not produce more insightful conversations. It just produces burnt-out previously promising thinkers.

Nicholas A. Christakis

@NAChristakis

7 years

I tell my graduate students and post-docs that if they’re working 60 hours per week, they’re working less than the full professors, and less than their peers.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

YOU CAN WALK THROUGH THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM ON GOOGLE ARTS! Aka: Liesbeth's happy place. Aka: the webpage Liesbeth will have open at all times for maximum Ideal Working Environment Vibes. #bookhistory #LowCountries #ImpressedByPlantin #earlymodern

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex, Belgium - Google Arts & Culture

Home and workshop of the greatest printer-publisher of the 16th century: Christophe Plantin

artsandculture.google.com

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

Some people dream of diving into a whole swimming pool full of M&Ms, others imagine that pool full of...

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

I know that I shouldn't read reviews, especially not while I'm feeling at an all-time-low about my work, but I couldn't resist seeing my little bookie reviewed by Henk Van Nierop, one of the few current historians I knew by name as an undergrad, and 🤩

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 months

"As the letters sit quietly in their archival boxes, images of them stored on this hardware will need comparatively frequent checks and migration to survive a decade." Brilliant survey of the complexities of digitisation.

Samantha Thompson

@harchivist

8 months

@yuanyi_z Facts about digitization, written by yours truly.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

@superteadrinker Get those film rights, now. This is Hollywood gold. World-wise barrister goes into convent, has her questions about the excessive demands of obedience (and the soundness of her superiors), resorts to excellent sarcasm. Gets kicked out, starts her own kickass convent.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

I know it's Not Done to be giddy about this, and that I should be a Serious Academic™. But boo seriousness, it *is* exciting to see my name on that iconic P&P cover.

Seasonable Coexistence: Temporality, Health Care and Confessional Relations in Spa, c.1648–1740*

Abstract. This article adds a temporal dimension to our interpretation of confessional relations. While historians are increasingly attuned to the subtleti

academic.oup.com

Past and Present

@PastPresentSoc

2 years

Our latest issue No. 256 (August 2022) is out now: Check it out via the the link below and the thread below (👇) @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory #socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

7 years

I often joke that this place is like Hogwarts. But this place really is Hogwarts. Library supplies:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

Ok, want to tweet about a great job advert, but twitter may need some further context: I got a lectureship at QMUL! (woot!). But I'll continue my British Academy post-doc for the first two years, so we'll need an ace colleague for those 24 months. So:...

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 years

ohmygodabookcontract! *tiny personal happy dance while the worlds is going down in flames*

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying reading The Brutish Museums, but I also still have the feeling no one will ever summarise the situation quite as eloquently and succinctly as James Acaster here.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

12 days

@amyfullermorgan 🤯 I’d say “sign him up for the royal school of art”, but realise that isn’t needed anymore… How on earth is he so very skilled at the execution, beyond just the talent?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

Beguinages are the absolute best and I think we, as humanity, made a mistake when we phased out beguinages. Community, women-centred, activeness and work, can-leave-if-you-want-to-marry-no-probs-you-go-girl, *beautiful* architecture. #BringBackBeguinages

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Eeeeeeeeeep! This news made my week! Thanks SO much @EcclesHistSoc — honoured and honoured with the company! Also: @QMHistory represent! <high-fives @ReubenLoffman >

EHS

@EcclesHistSoc

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It's the week for wonderful announcements!!🤗 We are so delighted to announce the shortlist for our book prize... of books published in 2019. 😍👇👇 #churchhistory #religioushistory More details here:

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

I never really thought of my grandfather’s emotional life. His ideology led him to not show too much of that. But I’ve got his genealogy research papers, and the first envelop I look at are all the congratulatory cards at the birth of his seventh child. The one he had to bury.💔

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

Lisa Jardine has been added to the @odnb : First female fellow @JesusCollegeCam , inspiring scholar, and all-round excellent human being. Rather touched by last paragraph. What a legacy. #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodern #histsci #histSTEM

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

No, hear me out, I am *supposed* to be thinking about getting some general things down about how to do a history dissertation. And, guess what, you can write an entire guide with Calvin & Hobbes. Starting with: this common certainty

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

Listen, I *know* they’re over the top for teaching. But I’ve had to live in slippers and running shoes for 18 months. Indulge me.

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@onslies

4 years

THE TINY PRESS!!! WHERE DOES ONE PROCURE THE TINY PRESS?!

PUL Special Collections

@PrincetonRBSC

4 years

Eric White, Curator of Rare Books, leading a Princeton class session on the history and craft of manuscript and print codex production. #VirtualPrincetonU

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3 years

OhMyGodYouGuysLookHowPretty!!! Eeeeeeep! (That massive acknowledgment list is heartfelt. I would NOT have continued punishing myself with this thing had it been for those people modelling generosity and scholarship and kindness.)

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

6 years

THE DIGITAL VERSION OF MY BOOK IS UP ON THE @OUPHistory WEBSITE!!! 🤗 For all things #recusantsbaby , (Counter)- #reformazing & mobility, go to: #EMReligion #earlymodern #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter

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@onslies

10 months

Search twitter for 'Natalie Zemon Davis' right now and you find tweets in about a dozen languages from each time zone. NZD's curiosity and attention and eye for ambiguity really did touch on something of a shared humanity.

Renaissance SRS

@SRSRenSoc

10 months

We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 months

Twitter, tell me: running humanities courses is less expensive than STEM courses, right? As in: every university that is cutting humanities right now is going to realise they can't afford teaching STEM soon? Is there a helpful article that churns the numbers on that?

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5 years

@hannahrosewoods

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3 years

#HappyPlace #MakeRuffsGreatAgain .

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

You lot, I love you, but I'm going to need you all to stop giving GBNews the RTs, clicks, app-downloads, and views. I don't care if you're doing it out of disgust about what they're going to do to this country, numbers are numbers and you're only helping them tearing us all down

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

One. More. Try. Chapter cut from PhD. Completely rearranged & rethought for article. Twice. Came back with seven (7!) readers’ reports four years ago, pulling in all directions. Couldn’t face figuring out what I was supposed to do until two years ago. Gave up. One. More. Try.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Was confused why I hadn't seen this cartoon all over my feed like I do every Easter, until I realised I no longer have the nuns' account and hadn't checked in on @CatholicRS ... Still gold.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

Honestly, of all the academic fields to try to potentially plagiarise/defraud, going after the people who've built a career on piecing together tiny dispersed fragments, catching little irregularities, tracing multiple contradicting versions has to be the stupidest.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

For perfectly legitimate research reasons I have realised Instagram filters work on early modern portraits. My sincere apologies to Cornelius Janssen.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Excellent trolling from the Abbey here. Excellent trolling. Applause to whoever put that verse in front of the man who oozes the opposite and to the person tweeting it so dryly.

Westminster Abbey

@wabbey

4 years

The Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, reads from Philippians 2: 'Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.' #BoB80

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3 years

😍 ah, you pretty thing! PROOFS!

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4 years

Family WhatsApp reports that Belgians are hiding bears in their windows so children can go on a bear hunt while they are doing their daily trip outside. How cutesie is my country? 🧸🧸🧸 (Pictured: my mum’s effort)

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Liesbeth Corens

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3 years

Came downstairs to find my mum had made an entire fox den, because she wanted to try with some different proportions. @NthSeaCrossings @AnneLouiseAvery , next time you have a book launch or exhibition launch: I’ve got you. 🦊 🦊 🦊 🦊 🦊

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

8 years

I already loved #HRCintheWild & then I realised this might mean Kate McKinnon might do another SNL sketch as HRC, and now I'm over the moon.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

5 years

Look, @rijksmuseum , if you think I'm going to get emotional over a bunch of wooly hats, you're absolute right.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

Not Hilary Mantel. Dammit. Not Hilary Mantel. The world needed so many more of her words, her observations, her beauty, and her insight.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

2 years

@MaddyPelling I love how restrained they are in the title. "Equestrian Facility". LIVE IN THE BENNETS' HOUSE, more like.

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

Oh. Record-keeping definitely was my grandfather’s coping mechanism. In September 2003, mere weeks after he lost his wife of 65 years, he compiled her story from the life she lived before him aided by the few pics he had. 🥺 “and now it is too late to ask her” 💔

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Very naive question, but: what is different from March? There's no track-and-trace, not vaccine, no massive testing everywhere. Why can we suddenly open up everything?

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

3 years

I may have had to look for a magically disappearing Royal Mail van one too many times. #WeveAllBeenAtHomeForAYear

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Liesbeth Corens

@onslies

4 years

Lockdown chique: not kind to anyone with glasses. If I don’t die of this virus; I’ll die of walking under a bus I didn’t see coming through my misted-over glasses...

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