Really pleased to share the full programme for the 'Teaching Anti-Fascism Today' workshop (London 21-22 May). Presentations on teaching in UK, Italy, Spain, Brazil, US (and elsewhere) as well as reflections on AI, embodied learning and archaeology and much more. ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

For the @alcs.co.uk users in the audience - it looks like our statements are available in the members area!

Another week - another book talk! This time at the University of Milan - if anyone happens to be in the area, do come say hi! studistorici.unimi.it/it/eventi/em...

If anyone happens to be in Padua tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book Emigrant Soldiers at 1pm. Remote attendance possible - see email address to book here www.dissgea.unipd.it/presentazion...

Looking forward to this seminar on the teaching of migration history at schools, universities and broader society at Università di Torino

Just in time for St Patrick's Day, a little piece I wrote about Ireland's Italian chippers. italysegreta.com/how-italians...

A baffling celebration of “eating last night’s curry from tupperware on a bench”. Forgive me if I find the Italian (and French) habit of joining colleagues for a convivial lunch a rather more enticing prospect. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I can’t say that seeing Pimpa (beloved Italian comic-strip character) co-opted into far-left rhetoric was on my Carnevale in Turin bingo card but a fun neighbourhood street parade all the same.

Right around 1200 started feeling like Grendel was waiting for me

A great list of recent First World War scholarship here … and thanks for the shout-out for my book too! ☺️

Really interesting Decolonial Walking Tour this morning around Porta Palazzo in Turin led by Dr Gabriele Proglio as part of Black History Month. Fun fact: Cirio canned tomatoes are originally from Piemonte!

New book by @selenadaly.bsky.social : Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2025) www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

This is absurd. I have yet to encounter an AI system that can go into an archive and sift through thousands of documents and then put it all together in a coherent narrative!

Not sure that checks out, historically speaking. Supporters of Italian Fascism produced some fantastic avant-garde artworks.

Hello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm

Have a look at the Introduction of my 'Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation' (OUP 2025)!! This is now available for free until 18 February 2026: academic.oup.com/book/61479/c... And the book is still 30% off with code AUFLY30!! Thank you, OUP!

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! Sharing again for morning Bluesky!

5.20 a.m. on Monday 28 December 1908, the prosperous Sicilian port city of Messina is mostly asleep. The evening before saw the inauguration of the city's new public lighting system and a Christmas performance of Verdi's opera "Aida" at the Vittorio Emanuele Theatre [Thread] >> 1

I never knew Chris Rea’s dad was Italian! Unclear how the family ended up in Middlesborough but they ran coffee bars and ice cream shops like so many of their compatriots in Britain. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/t...

There are FIVE MORE DAYS to get your abstract submissions in for our forthcoming conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World! Based on submissions so far, there's fantastic research going on in the field and we're excited about bringing scholars together on this topic.

Italian cuisine has been awarded world heritage status by UNESCO. It is the first time that a national cuisine in its entirety has been added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Italy's greatest soft power weapon.

We are pleased to launch today a new programme for early career researchers with @ihr.bsky.social & @chalkefestival.bsky.social 'Pitch my Project' is an opportunity for early career historians to present their research at the Chalke History Festival in 2026 bit.ly/44kfUMM Applications now invited.

This is the kind of statistic that never cuts through into public debate, more’s the pity.

Are you working on literature and culture in the First World War? have you considered submitting to First World War Studies? meet our Associate Editor @afrayn.bsky.social who is keen to receive more submissions in these fields!

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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...

Fascinating to see the impact of Catherine Connolly's Presidency already in terms of the visibility of the Irish language. I can't ever remember seeing RTE print several paragraphs in Irish in a news article (with English translations). Tús maith! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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...

Every country should conduct their presidential elections as Ireland does.* That apple tart looks delicious. *(or, at the very least, should have elections to vote for a head of state).

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...

We are recruiting again. Come join the Trondheim team of BLOCKADE as a 4 year, fully funded postdoc in Modern Economic History - you'll be working with Prof. Jonas Scherner and in one of the most beautiful university towns in Europe (evidence from last visit below)! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Earlier this week, I had a launch at UCL for my book Emigrant Soldiers. I was moved and grateful to see so many friends and colleagues show up to support me. Grazie a tutti. And to Heather Jones who did a wonderful job of contextualising the book (and driving sales!)

In dispatches from insane prices in central London, please say hello to the £12.75 sourdough loaf.

Very glad to have managed to see Thessaloniki in the sunshine after two days of rain! Interesting mix of Byzantine architecture, Roman ruins and container ships heading into the port! It’s been a great location for the First World War Studies conference with wonderful hospitality.

Was very sorry to miss the inaugural meeting of the new IHR Migration and Mobility seminar series (greetings from Greece!) but glad to see that it got off to such a cracking start. Looking forward to the rest of the events this year.

Very pleased to be officially beginning my Leverhulme Research Fellowship year at the International First World War Studies conference in (a rainy) Thessaloniki. Three days of talk about war at sea!

A few weeks ago I was interviewed by the Danish newspaper Politken about the memory of Fascism in Italy today, inspired by the debut of Mussolini's great-grandson's in the Serie A (paywalled unfortunately). politiken.dk/internationa...

A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge!

This book by the excellent @selenadaly.bsky.social, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, looks really interesting. Come celebrate its launch! @uclselcs.bsky.social, @artshumsucl.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!

I’m en route to Oxford to present one of the keynotes at this conference on return migration to Italy. Alice Gussoni & Fanny Clemente have curated an excellent programme full of papers I’m excited to hear. It promises to be a stimulating couple of days! migration.web.ox.ac.uk/event/return...

Today is the first time in 10 years that I’m not about to start a new year of teaching as I’m starting a year-long Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Strange not to be in the thick of induction but very grateful to have my first uninterrupted research time in a decade!

Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social

Good morning! If you want to start your week listening to my thoughts on Mussolini, and why wouldn't you, you can hear me chat with Iain Dale on his Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs and Dictators podcast here or wherever you usually find your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...

Excited to be part of the convening team of this new IHR seminar on Migration and Mobility History. It’s a great team of colleagues from all career stages with a huge disciplinary, geographical and temporal range of expertise. Congrats to Kathleen for bringing us all together.

I’ve just been told that my book has its own little display in the window of the CUP bookshop in Cambridge! Not something i ever thought would happen! @universitypress.cambridge.org

It's officially publication day! Hooray! Thanks to all who helped me get Emigrant Soldiers out into the world. :-)

Very pleased to see this article appear in the July issue of @historytoday.com The article explores the clash between expectation and reality for Italy's emigrant soldiers when they returned to fight in the First World War. Pick up a copy of History Today to find out more!

The Italian author of this article has two unhappy children, a son in Dublin, a daughter in London. The son wishes the British would invade Ireland, though based on his sister's experience, the vegetables would still be tasteless & the climate certainly wouldn't improve www.ilpost.it/2025/06/07/c...

So excited to see this finally out in print! If you're interested in the global history of the First World War, in migration history, or in the many variants of Italian identity, you should pre-order this right away!