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=...

Very much looking forward to being part of a UNESCO roundtable in Paris this afternoon to discuss how education can respond to the rise of polarised ideologies and uncertainties. I’ll be talking about antifascist pedagogies and how knowledge of the past can build resistance today.

There are still tickets for this online talk I’m giving next Tuesday. As I like to say, ‘come for the #Tarot, stay for the cartomancy’. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tarot-and-...?

Very much looking forward to a trip to Paris next week to talk about antifascist pedagogies as part of UNESCO’s Global Citizenship Education work! What are our favourite Parisian museums and galleries these days that don’t cost the earth?

"History department power couple Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore and philosophy professor Jason Stanley will begin teaching at the University of Toronto’s renowned Munk School in fall 2025."

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

One of my brilliant students wrote this about M: Son of the Century on Sky. Smart analysis and top writing! www.thebristorian.co.uk/arts/https/w...

Our new MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders is now open for applications! Taught by experts across the University of London in UCL, RHUL, KCL, QMUL, ULIP & ILCS, it delivers a unique interdisciplinary degree. And 3 bursaries are available! Find out more 👇 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/graduate-stu...

*Final week* to apply for School of Advanced Study bursaries available for Masters degrees across the School, inc. our new MA in Languages Across Borders - check out the Master's funding page here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate... - @ilcs.bsky.social

A total joy to officially launch my book yesterday with the help of @georgenewth.bsky.social! So lovely to see friends and students from different departments and big thanks to the 🇮🇹 department for hosting (and to Asda for the book cake 😂)

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

This is without comparison. A man fighting for his democracy, whose citizens have been killed, kidnapped and raped by fascist invaders comes to the Oval Office and is attacked by the President and VP. This is a gangster government. Never been more disgusted in the US.

Some might also call them squadristi

“Aspiring authoritarians sometimes rely on thugs willing to do violence while denying any link to politicians. In the 2010s in Ukraine, these men were called Titushky. Today, the United States has its own Titushky: the Proud Boys,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes: