Iraq's World Cup star Aymen Hussein was detained and questioned for nearly seven hours after arriving at Chicago O'Hare Airport with the national team. Hussein was eventually allowed into the United States, but team photographer Talal Salah was denied entry after being held for more than 10 hours.

a late 90s throwback for #Caturday this week: how many cats can fit in your baby's carseat? featuring my mother's cats - I think these are Fengs, Funki, Jaja and Zulle but I am ready to stand corrected

More than 30 years ago I stepped barefoot onto the headless corpse of a squirrel and still remember the feeling in excruciating detail

New book alert! Thanks to @robbyref.bsky.social - very excited to read this

There have been sightings of Dobby the deaf cat in #Nottingham. Here is the FB page to check progress. People ARE looking!! Posters are out. Please share. #catsofbluesky #NG4 www.facebook.com/groups/55343...

Silver lining of moving back to Paris from Milan:

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

so excited to have a contribution in this together with @chriskempshall.bsky.social and reading the ToC is super inspiring - loads of excellent people in here

new publication alert! if you are interested in learning what I think about Luigi Cadorna and Rodolfo Graziani - and you definitely should be! - I have two pieces in this edited collection which is out today: www.waterstones.com/book/the-gen...

What an inspiring contrast from the “let’s return to fascism despite all the lessons of history” prescription. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The poorest 50% of Italy's families own only 7.2% of its wealth” www.ansa.it/english/news...

If he who is tired of London is tired of life, he who is tired of Rome has probably just been commuting to work via public transport, or trying to go to the post office, or pay their taxes, or renew their ID card, or book a taxi, or do basically any everyday task imposed by modernity.

This is an astonishingly great article about historical #embroidery, but also #MaterialsScience and threads and the work of Tricia Wilson Nguyen. She takes an #engineering approach to this work that is so valuable. #BobbinLace #lace #sewing #TextileHistory egausa.org/interview-wi...

took the family to Torino for the long weekend and to see @selenadaly.bsky.social Daughter: Mamma! ma Torino è la città della Juventus? ma che schifo! perche mi avete portato qui, mi fa venire voglia di vomitare! #PiccoleAnti-JuventineCrescono #ProudMama

Left the laundry basket outside in the rain, so of course Byron is drinking the rainwater out of it

At 1am on 31 May 1940, an aircraft crashed near Cpl Daphne Pearson’s quarters. She helped the injured pilot from his burning aircraft &, when it exploded, threw herself on him to protect him. Awarded the George Cross. Her portrait by Laura Knight. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

It's a vintage clothing night

Universities should be places where knowledge, culture, and tradition are retained and shared for the public good. Not to the highest bidder as NTU has done.

Wolf's public engagement also poor, contribution to next REF cycle negligible

Brilliant public history and memory project showing what you can do when schools, researchers and local institutions come together ❤️

tracked down the precise unpublished archival document in which an absolutely essential couple of sentences about Italian policy in Cyrenaica occur & am exceptionally thrilled! The source is cited quite often but I could never pin it down precisely so didn't want to cite it myself, of course

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Amazing short story from visionary children's writer Gianni Rodari in 1973, essentially predicting the consequences of AI in his story 'The homework machine'

The heat in Milan has broken very abruptly with a massive hailstorm! This just bounced into the kitchen

Wonderful photos as well as fascinating subject matter here

today I have * taken a group of students to visit the Foro Italico & goggle at fascist art * taken my intern to the Archivio Centrale dello Stato & taught him how to use an archive * written 750 words of my current book chapter might be time to read an Amelia Peabody novel and drink prosecco

Every time I feel sad about leaving Italy, fate puts me on the un-air conditioned Metro B and I feel fully reconciled to Paris again Trust me even the line 13

Fascinating insight into the mental world created by fascism. This July 1943 censor's report, written very shortly after the fall of Mussolini, basically says: hurrah, freedom of speech! now we'll REALLY find out what our people think! at last we'll be able to PROPERLY repress them! 🧐

I have lived to tell the tale! I must say that although the location is astonishingly inconvenient the staff are exceptionally helpful, above and beyond most archives I've even been to

tomorrow I am going to the naval archives for the first time, a fate I have so far skilfully and assiduously avoided in more than 25 years of military history research. I fear there will be boaty things. wish me luck. 🚢⚓

Today, with the less than helpful contribution of my feline assistant, kiddo and I have jointly improvised a very plausible mermaid skirt, with glittery fabric from @alexchurchill.bsky.social

I've got lots of things to do but Byron is asleep on my skirt and pinning me to the sofa so sadly I can't do any of them 🤷‍♀️ #Caturday

These awards are a hugely important part of the Society. If you’re eligible to apply for one you should absolutely do so.

Nourishing Victory: Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia, edited by Václav Šmidrkal and me and published by @ceu-press.bsky.social will start shipping in about a week. At the same time, the open-access e-book will be available for download.

Kiddo tells me she aced her test on the First World War 'I mean how could I not, you go on and on about it' I'm trying to contain my pride while she rolls her eyes at me

I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted lies whispered into your ear you had to hire a grand vizier

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

In the early 20thC, the Italian foreign ministry's colonial selection ordered a large collection of relevant scientific studies, geographer's and ethnographer's reports, periodicals etc to be bound in a large set for office use. Today I spotted an unexpected item nestling in there...

650 decidedly shonky half-arsed words this afternoon But some thoughts about organisation slowly and painfully emerging

It's graduation day at John Cabot University and the view is pretty good up at here at Villa Miani

Written 1100 words on my morning commute 🙌 #AmWriting Whether they are any good is a problem for another day 😂

Reading this and feeling an overwhelming nostalgia. Falling in love with Roma and Rome and my husband all at once, back in 2006. I'm so incredibly sad to be leaving Italy even as I know that what I miss is already long gone 💔

I bet the Nemean lion also learned to hide the pill in his mouth and spit it out later when he thought no-one was looking #Caturday #BastardAnimal

wait so it's the Rome derby tomorrow.... and then its the final of the Rome Open tomorrow.... at the same location? wow there's no way this could go horribly wrong at all 🙃

36 out of 100 - and a good dozen or so more that I tried and abandoned I always think these lists should have a strict 1-book-per-author rule, otherwise it's just like Barcelona B getting into the Champions League

Still grading ✍️ Tonight: gin and tonic, lemon & ginger Haribo, BBC music, more bloody 19thC European History

Solving the problem of where I'm going to live in Paris by simply killing every single person who asks me where I'm going to live in Paris and whether it's all sorted yet, and then being accommodated rent-free in a maximum security prison 💪👌

Figure tutélaire, résistant et père des Annales, Marc Bloch entre au Panthéon en 2026. L'occasion de comprendre son héritage multiforme à travers le regard des historiens d'aujourd'hui.

This video announcing the French men's team for the World Cup is an absolutely amazing and also hilarious cultural artefact, please watch it you could absolutely write an article about the French popular imaginary of the USA based on this video.gazzetta.it/calcio/video...