Digital Trapdoors follows the online lives of a 17-year-old young man and a 22-year-old young woman. It shows how extremist ideas are “microdosed” through entertainment and lifestyle content, radicalising young people before they even realise it. hopenothate.org.uk/digital-trap...

“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” at @ilcs.bsky.social is off to a great start with Paz Guevara’s keynote. She describes the “Global Fascisms Exhibition,” which presented fascism not only as a historical phenomenon but as an ongoing global threat that transcends its historically confined definition.

“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” is well underway. I was delighted to contribute to a session on “Anti-Fascism Teaching and Questions of Temporality,” where I discussed my experience teaching in Britain and the US alongside colleagues Marco Ruggieri, Marco Bernardi, and Daniel Brown @ilcs.bsky.social

Two days to go until Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices at @ilcs.bsky.social ! This free, two-day event will bring together educators engaged in an antifascist teaching practice amidst rising authoritarianism. Programme here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Brilliant event tonight in London at the Goethe Institute: a screening of Marcin Wierzchowski’s documentary Das Deutsche Volk (The German People) with a director Q&A after. It examines the impact of a racist attack in Germany in 2020 and the fight for justice. www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

Argentine mini-Trump Milei restricts press freedom while his propaganda constantly asserts he is for freedom. This is how fascist propaganda works.

Congratulations Amy! As editors of the series we are so happy that this is the case for your excellent book! @acostapinto.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Delighted to have had final acceptance of my manuscript for Cambridge University Press's Elements in the History of Fascism series. If all goes to plan, 'The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024', should be published in a few months' time! 🎉

The American Historical Association's Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is now live! @brianjgriffith.bsky.social and I have contributed a class on authoritarian aesthetics and appeals to youth, examining how authoritarians present obedience as progress. www.historians.org/module/autho...

Registration is now open for 'Teaching Anti-Fascism: Developing and Shaping Practice'! Papers will be short, practical and informal. The event is free and over two days in London. All welcome! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

My author copy has landed! I never knew what to do with this work, then a call for chapters arrived for this brilliant new handbook. So pleased to see this out in the world.

Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include: What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Friends! The deadline is approaching. Our Antifascist Pedagogies workshop promises to be a winner, with some fascinating proposals already in and some excellent talks lined up.

This roundtable brings together Simone Brioni (Stony Brook) and @amycking.bsky.social (Bristol), in conversation with John Foot (Bristol), to examine the legacy and memory of 1970s political violence and massacres in Italy. . . . #Italy #NeoFascism #Rome

Dec. 3rd round table (also online) with Simone Brioni, Amy King (@amycking.bsky.social), and John Foot (@footymac.bsky.social): Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead (@ihr.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist. Join us & bash the Fash?

Not sure I’ll ever recover from seeing kids at the hotel window waving at antifascists, disappearing for a few minutes, and returning with a homemade sign saying ‘thank you’

Vastly outnumbered by antifascists, but nonetheless deeply depressing to watch the so-called ‘Bristol patriots’ march to a refugee hotel with Crusader iconography and chants about extermination. But, in the words of the counter protest, “there are many many more of us than you”

An excellent PhD opportunity for someone to work on family separation during WW1 or WW2. I've done some research on Italian emigrant families separated when the father was serving in the Italian Army and it's a really fascinating area of study. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/phd...

On 5 December, I'm organising a workshop entitled 'Exploring the health and wellbeing of Italian migrants in Britain today' feat. contributions from academics, psychologists & community groups. See full programme here. Free but booking required! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my recent book Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War. If anyone has a commute they'd like to liven up with tales of war, take a listen! newbooksnetwork.com/emigrant-sol...

10/10 delighted to see a podcast from @ilpost.it today about my book! Interesting discussion of right-wing martyr stories like Charlie Kirk today, too. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Very much looking forward to seeing this out in the world by the end of the year. I've got a chapter on commemoration of the Nasiriyah dead in Italy. Looks a wonderfully rich collection. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

dude’s giving Foro Italico

Delighted to see such a great review of Where Monsters Are Born, our educational resource that aims to improve visual literacy of neofascist propaganda, in the Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies! bit.ly/3IdDtPC @brianjgriffith.bsky.social

Please spread this far and wide! I’m on the convening team of this exciting new IHR seminar series and we are looking forward to hearing about all the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs across the country!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A generous, well-written, and thorough review of 'Fathers of the Lega' by @amycking.bsky.social 'Richly researched and grounded in scholarly debates [...] Newth’s book reminds us that ideological strands thought to be dormant may yet re-emerge in new contexts' www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"The Pride of Britain" Fox - Charged under the Sexual Offence act for an upskirt photo on Twitter Hopkins - Detained in South Africa for spreading racial hatred and deported from Australia for breaching Covid Tommy "10 names" Robinson - Serial convict

A really strong, thought provoking start to the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social annual conference on ‘Public History in an age of Anxiety’ with @cathfletcher.bsky.social on museums and gun heritage, and Lisa Goff on the challenges of public history in Trump’s America

Very much looking forward to discussing antifascist pedagogies in Belfast this week!

Feel like they’d be firm friends with Italy’s umarell

Yesterday, I was reassured to see there were National Guards inside a real crime hotspot: The Natural History Museum. Those criminal… fossils?

Someone has immortalised the DC sandwich-thrower. This city works fast!

My journey home via Union Station, DC. What a time to be alive, honestly.

Chuffed to see this review of my book in La Repubblica this week, by Benedetta Tobagi! Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.

Looks like I saw it just in time

Big thanks to Nicola Guerra for this thorough and generous review of my book. Still surprises me to think of people spending time with my work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My first 4 July weekend has been 10/10!

Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com

Super excited to see my book in La Repubblica today!

This looks a really great scheme!

Wow. An honest review of an SUV. www.irishtimes.com/motors/revie...

Lecturer in History - University of Hull - School of Humanities - Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB990/l...

Two events linked to my book on the Red Brigades - published on 19 June 9 June Bookhaus - Bristol - booking required hdfst.uk/e125273 - 18.00 pm 10 June - Italian cultural institute London with John Dickie - 18.30 - booking required iiclondra.esteri.it/.../the-red-...

New Yorkers! I’ll be speaking with @brianjgriffith.bsky.social at Columbia’s Italian Academy on the 80th anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Fascism. Come along for the Bella Ciao?

Atelier Populaire, Halte a l'Expulsion!, 1968 via Letterform Archive oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=...