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Liesbeth Corens @onslies

Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Stopped posting here, find me on onslies.bsky.social (She/Her)

Joined June 2009
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Liesbeth Corens@onslies
4 Feb 2021
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: oxford.universitypressschola… Archives & Information: britishacademy.universitypre… Social History: academic.oup.com/past/issue/…
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Corey duBrowa@coreydu
31 Dec 2024
Bill Watterson’s last goodbye. December 31, 1995. Perfection. H/T @onslies 🙏🏻
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Posted this on the other site and now my mentions are full of beautiful memories of people growing up with these, keeping cut-outs, passing on that love to their own children. What a gift caring and cared-for art can be.
Corey duBrowa@coreydu
31 Dec 2024
Bill Watterson’s last goodbye. December 31, 1995. Perfection. H/T @onslies 🙏🏻
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Look at our itsy bitsy baby list 🥹 8 in January 2024, 88 in December 2024. You'd think that would warrant some intervention in the way the sector is financed and governed...
Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
6 Mar 2024
This was the list mid-January. Six weeks on: adding @UCUNUbranch, @UoK_UCU moved to the top bracket, @UCU_YSJ joined the club, as did @uculincoln. Who else?
universities with redundancies and voluntary severance schemes: coventry, aberdeen, sheffield hallam, brighton, oxford brookes, nottingham trent, staffordshire, goldsmiths bad vibes in recent years: birkbeck, kent, and uea

ALT universities with redundancies and voluntary severance schemes: coventry, aberdeen, sheffield hallam, brighton, oxford brookes, nottingham trent, staffordshire, goldsmiths bad vibes in recent years: birkbeck, kent, and uea
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Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
18 Dec 2024
snarky letters, break-ins in union offices, silence about persecution of colleagues, bailiffs at dawn, court cases, kicking out toddlers, more court cases, ... All the more thankful for the lovely @QMSU and @QM_UNISON friends reminding us we can do this together.
Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
16 Dec 2024
Another year! And what a year it’s been… A thread of the biggest events – as a challenge to the short-termism of news cycles and a reminder of how much members worked towards a better university together with many brilliant grassroots organisations. 🧵
Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

ALT Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott
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Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
18 Dec 2024
Only two weeks of 2024 to go. We'd like to leave behind in 2024: the exhausting intimidation, surveillance, breaking-in, non-consultations. We'd like to take with us int 2025 and well beyond: the excellent solidarity of members, students, community, and grassroots organisations
Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
16 Dec 2024
Another year! And what a year it’s been… A thread of the biggest events – as a challenge to the short-termism of news cycles and a reminder of how much members worked towards a better university together with many brilliant grassroots organisations. 🧵
Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

ALT Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott
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Helen Castor@hrcastor
2 Apr 2017
look, either you read this thread or I'm going to have to retweet all of it x.com/earlymodernjohn/status…

John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn
4 Mar 2016
In love with the fact that in 1585 Francis Walsingham drew up a document titled 'A Plot for the Annoying of the King of Spain'
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GUYS! The Best of Twitter threads still exists.
John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn
4 Mar 2016
In love with the fact that in 1585 Francis Walsingham drew up a document titled 'A Plot for the Annoying of the King of Spain'
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Academia losing a rather excellent participant; the world at large gaining one. (Very recognisable path, about the lack of mojo once you realise how little respect your overlords have for you, and the pointlessness of so much of it once you start questioning it...)
Jane Ogden 🇪🇺💙@Jane1Ogden
26 Dec 2024
Leaving academia after 37 years! Latest piece in inews!
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author of this verrrrrrrry recognisable piece from earlier in the year: x.com/Jane1Ogden/status/1796…

Jane Ogden 🇪🇺💙@Jane1Ogden
30 May 2024
I’m a lecturer – universities have been ruined by willy-waving managers - article in today’s i liveapp.inews.co.uk/2024/05/…
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Jane Ogden 🇪🇺💙@Jane1Ogden
26 Dec 2024
Leaving academia after 37 years! Latest piece in inews!
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Calvin and Hobbes Fan Account
@Calvinn_Hobbes
25 Dec 2024
So magical 😊 #CalvinandHobbes
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Dr Caroline Archer-Parré💙@TypeTweets
25 Dec 2024
A Baskerville asterisk punch, which looks like a snowflake, to wish you all a merry Christmas. Photography by the wonderful CHIL team at @theUL
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Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
19 Dec 2024
This was our 2023: x.com/qm_ucu/status/17367862… And this our 2022: x.com/qm_ucu/status/16084188… May our overview for 2025 be (1) shorter, (2) with fewer 'don't go full QMUL' moments, and (3) with just slightly fewer 'OMG, I'd forgotten about that madness, that was THIS year??' entries...

Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
16 Dec 2024
Another year! And what a year it’s been… A thread of the biggest events – as a challenge to the short-termism of news cycles and a reminder of how much members worked towards a better university together with many brilliant grassroots organisations. 🧵
Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

ALT Image of Queen Mary's Queens' Building with a decal of scrooge over it, while people are protesting at the bottom. Neatly sums up our employment relations in visual form. The image comes from the 22 December 2023 piece Aditya Chakrabortty wrote about the state of Queen Mary in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott
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RICHARD! Conquering Antwerp from the bookshop in the city centre onwards:
Picture of a bunch of Dutch books in a bookshop. On the right is enemies of all by Richard Blakemore!

ALT Picture of a bunch of Dutch books in a bookshop. On the right is enemies of all by Richard Blakemore!

Book cover: Vijanden van iedereen by Richard Blakemore

ALT Book cover: Vijanden van iedereen by Richard Blakemore
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Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷@MichaelRosenYes
21 Dec 2024
Jonathan Freedland in today's Guardian:
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Plashing Vole Now On Bluesky@PlashingVole
21 Dec 2024
Will he be taking a pay cut from his day job of sacking people seeing as he’s only part-time now?
Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
20 Dec 2024
Didn’t know you could get appointed to government roles to explain how NOT to do it? Under his tenure, CU dug a £100 million pit. He’s, with questionable legality, pushing staff onto awful contracts of the subsidiary he is CEO of. Government associating with the best of #UKHE
Screenshot of an article. Title: Coventry University Vice-Chancellor to advise the government on business and trade Picture of Professor John Latham, CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University

ALT Screenshot of an article. Title: Coventry University Vice-Chancellor to advise the government on business and trade Picture of Professor John Latham, CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University

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“Happy” anniversary to this beautiful piece. Or how the Guardian was ahead of the curve in reporting on #UKHE mismanagement. All redundancies may have made the headlines in the months after, but underlying those is the transformation of academic work & managers’ hapless spending
Aditya Chakrabortty@chakrabortty
22 Dec 2023
The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price. My column on a modern-day Scrooge theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Bodleian Libraries@bodleianlibs
21 Dec 2024
We’re counting down our most popular posts of 2024. In at number 9 was this delightfully intriguing book, which offers a reward for NOT reading it. Mary Agnes Hamilton must have been confident her whodunnit, Murder in the House of Commons, was a page-turner. Could you resist?
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Focus Features
@FocusFeatures
21 Dec 2024
The Associated Press
@AP
21 Dec 2024
Pope Francis reprimands Vatican staff for gossiping in annual Christmas message apnews.com/article/pope-chri…
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Queen Mary UCU@qm_ucu
20 Dec 2024
Logging off for the holidays! See you in 2025 🥳 (and a reminder of why we didn't have a social media Christmas break last year: the Guardian was ahead of the curve of reporting on the mismanagement in #UKHE: theguardian.com/commentisfre…. Let's get more insightful coverage in 2025.)
picture of a frontpage of the Guardian journal. With a big picture of QMUL's Queens' Building with a decal of Scrooge over it. The title is 'the miserly tale of a university hoarding its staff's wages'. Click the link for the full text: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott

ALT picture of a frontpage of the Guardian journal. With a big picture of QMUL's Queens' Building with a decal of Scrooge over it. The title is 'the miserly tale of a university hoarding its staff's wages'. Click the link for the full text: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/22/university-took-staff-wages-scrooge-marking-boycott
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