Today we present the PI of our other project, @azzab.bsky.social! Andrea Azzarelli directs GlobArms, a study of policing firearms trafficking in Italy, France, and the UK. #globarms #unipd #dissgea #dissgea_unipd

In the last third of the 19th century, major technological changes transformed the world of small arms. The invention of bolt-action rifles and, more importantly, smokeless powder meant that governments had to adopt new military rifle models to avoid falling behind in the arms race.

The next person from our team we would like to present is Assumpta Castillo Cañiz! She earned her PhD from the University of Padova in 2021 with a dissertation on political violence and armed associations in pre-World War I Europe, as part of the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque”.

A rifle’s journey often extends far beyond the battlefield it was built for. This image shows members of the Ulster Volunteer Force in Ireland marching in 1914 amid rising tensions over Home Rule. Among their weapons were likely Vetterli-Vitali rifles... #globarms #unipd #dissgea #europeanhistory

Meet our expert on the German gun history, Mathias Foit! He is a graduate of the University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Free University of Berlin, where he defended his doctoral thesis. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd

And sometimes, archival research yields surprises! This pistol was manufactured and registered in 1911 by the Basque firm Esperanza y Unceta. Known as the “Victoria,” it is an adapted copy of the popular Browning 1906 model. #euguns #eugunssnippets #unipd #dissgea #spanishhistory

We continue presenting members of our fantastic research team - today, it's our expert on France, @roxanebm.bsky.social! Roxane Bonnardel Mira is a graduate of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Tours (France), where she obtained her PhD. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

Produced from 1899 by the Fabrique Nationale in Liège, Belgium, the “Browning” pistol (model 1900) marked a true turning point in the European market for personal defence weapons. With its innovative and compact design, which made it easy to conceal under everyday clothing...

À la journée d'étude du @revue-lms.bsky.social, je présenterai les premiers résultats d'une enquête menée pour @euguns.bsky.social sur la répression du port d'arme prohibée au début du 20e siècle, lorsque les petites armes à feu étaient des objets du quotidien, dans les poches et dans les foyers.

In 1912, twin brothers Eric and Vilhelm Carlberg competed in the Olympics in central Stockholm. Today, the shooting range has been converted into a recreational park, but the firing point is still visible as a slight elevation. #euguns #eugunssnippets #swedishhistory #olympichistory #gunhistory

How was public order established in Italy during the liberal period from 1861 to 1914? How did policies aimed at controlling subversive and criminal activities influence the development of the Italian state?

Our colleague and head of the GlobArms research project, @azzab.bsky.social, has recently published a monograph which provides the answers to these questions. Published by Rubbettino Editore, the book offers a glimpse into a crucial period in post-unification Italy.

These forms of everyday self-defence speak directly to the themes explored in the ERC EU-GUNS project, which investigates how ordinary people dealt with the questions of protection, legality, and control between 1870 and 1970.

Historian Emelyne Godfrey explores how these strategies emerged as responses to growing anxieties around urban safety and women’s autonomy (2010). Source: The Sketch, 6th July 1910 Credit: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

In early 20th-century Britain, middle-class women took up jujitsu, adapted everyday objects like umbrellas into tools of self-defence, but also acquired gun models marketed especially to women. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #britishhistory Source: A.W. Gamage Ltd.: General Catalogue 1911

The panel will include such renowned scholars as @cathfletcher.bsky.social @drewmckevitt.bsky.social @briandelay.bsky.social @afilindra.bsky.social and David J. Silverman.

EU-GUNS/GlobArms are collaborating with another project on the history of arms, “Linking Arms: Central Europe's Weapons Sector, 1954 – 1994”. We organised our first joint workshop last January. In March, we shared a panel at ESSHC in Leiden #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea #recetvienna #gunhistory

Newspaper readers in the 1910s felt they were living in an "age of the revolver", as investigated, for example, by the historian Dominique Kalifa. One of the aims of the EU-GUNS project is to study "the age of the revolver" and its consequences for ordinary people #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory

Our colleague and team member, Assumpta Castillo Cañiz, has just published an article on the policies of civil armament and disarmament in Spain (1868-1936), the first article published as part of the EU-GUNS project #euguns #unipd #dissgea #gunhistory #spanishhistory @ayer-revista.bsky.social

Meet the team of EU-GUNS & GlobArms, two new and exciting research projects at the University of Padua on the social and cultural history of firearms. In the next few weeks, we will present the profiles of each researcher. Stay tuned for more! 😎 #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea #gunhistory

📖 New Book Release! 📖 I am thrilled to announce the publication of my latest book: Police, Crime, and Public Order in Liberal Italy. The National Model and the Case of late 19th-Century Sicily (1861–1914). 📚 More details here: shorturl.at/Lukud #History #Policing #Crime #Italy #Mafia #BookRelease

📖 New Book Release! 📖 I am thrilled to announce the publication of my latest book: Police, Crime, and Public Order in Liberal Italy. The National Model and the Case of late 19th-Century Sicily (1861–1914). 📚 More details here: shorturl.at/Lukud #History #Policing #Crime #Italy #Mafia #BookRelease

Le thème "exilés, réfugiés, étrangers en France" fait l'objet d'un colloque, organisé à Pau par Laurent Dornel et @delphinediaz.bsky.social, avec possibilité de le suivre à distance pour les étudiant-e-s qui explorent cette question !

Excited to announce that as of January 1st, I've started a new contract at the University of Padova, funded by TalentUnipd Stars. My research will focus on firearms, private policing, and political violence in France, Italy, and England. Looking forward to this new journey! #unipd #globarms

Last gig work exhibition of the year, at Maison de la Création et l'Innovation (University Grenoble Alpes). On display this week and early next year as a teaser for the much bigger exhibition I will organise at the Bibliothèque universitaire Droit et Lettres (details to come).

in what i think is a pretty decent encapsulation of the website i logged onto Threads this am and my only recent notification was an algorithmic prompt to engage with a friend of mine who died earlier this year

I'm also super excited to share my first article, which builds on some of the work I did for my PhD. I discuss how revolutionaries operating through the port of Genoa used the sea and worldwide business connections to staff and supply the army that unified Italy in 1860.

En el blog: Nathan Rousselot y Samuel Lillo Espada, Premios José María Jover 2023 de tesis doctorales en historia de las relaciones internacionales www.madrimasd.org/blogs/Histor...

Next week, I'll be attending a conference organized by Enrico Acciai, Marco Aterrano, and Matteo Millan on the history of private security and policing. I'll be discussing cases from Third Republic France and Liberal Italy. If you're in Rome, don't miss the chance to join us! #policing #skystorians

📖 New article online! 'Authority, Vigilance, Paranoia: Placing the Dutch Civil Militia in the History of the Paramilitary Radical Right, 1918–1940', by Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in doing research in Global Environmental History and the Environmental Humanities in Germany? I am scouting! Offering an up to 2 year research fellowship with the Humboldt Foundation. Deadline, December 13. www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet...

Excited to have received @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Journal Article of the Year Award for 2023. For the paper “Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy”. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

🌐 BSKY : nouvelle opportunité pour la communication scientifique ? Avec une promesse d’un espace plus ouvert et moins contraint par les algorithmes, BSKY semble séduire chercheurs et universitaires en quête de nouveaux canaux pour diffuser leurs travaux urlr.me/pPxsX3 via @presse-citron.net #ComESR

Here I am on Bluesky sharing what I wrote about Bluesky. It's easy to be a wonderful social network before the numbers get big, the VCs get hungry and the crowds get mean. I asked CEO Graber: Can Bluesky stay this way and become what all of us want? www.wired.com/story/plaint...

Hello #skystorians! 👋🏻 My PhD thesis delved into police, revolutionaries, and crime in 19th-century Italy. I’ve published a book on this topic (Polizia, crimine e ordine pubblico in epoca liberale, Rubbettino). Now, my research focuses on strikebreakers, and gun control in Third Republic France.

#HelloESR je suis historien, chercheur postdoctoral à l'université Grenoble-Alpes. Je travaille surtout sur l'histoire des polices et le contrôle du territoire. Ma recherche actuelle porte sur les polices privées, les briseurs de grève et le contrôle des armes à feu pendant la Troisième République.