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Verona Campione

@rickhough.bsky.social

Author of Verona Campione, Verona at War and Notes from Verona. Optimistic Hellas Verona season ticket holder with a passion for the past. And wine. Also beer. Some whisky too.

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Philip Gwynne Jones@pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 2d ago

For those of you in the UK....there's a cracking offer this month with the ebook of "The Venetian Candidate" at just 99p for the whole of August! There's a bit of history, a new enemy is introduced, Nathan goes ice-skating and...just what lies within The Visconti Box?

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Verona Campione@rickhough.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a reader and a writer details are so important. I remember texting a couple of ex-Hellas players to ask them what it smelled like in dressing room before THAT game with Maradona’s Napoli. That level of detail provides much of the colour I tried to infuse in Verona Campione!

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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 5d ago

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page of the Transactions article 'On Detail in Historical Writing' by Joe Moran. Full abstract: "This Comment considers the role of detail in historical writing, inflected through my own experience of writing ‘trade’ books for a general rather than specialist readership. I argue for the value of the detail that is slightly recalcitrant, that is more than just flesh on the bones of an argument or evidence marshalled to make a point. Detail is itself a kind of argument and thus, since beauty and elegance in writing derive from economy, a way of making a point without belabouring it. The gratuitous fact can be seductive, suggesting that the world has a randomness and overabundance that can't easily be rounded up into a dataset. Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience. They correct our tendency to fixate on one story, to focus on the eventful at the expense of the marginal, and to invent a false unity of experience that erases social differences. With their obdurate specificity, they can shatter our presumptions about the past. I explore these ideas with reference to modern literature (Flaubert, Chekhov), the Mass-Observation archive and examples from my own work in contemporary cultural history and family history."
Calcio England@calcioengland.bsky.social · 3d ago

🎟️🇮🇹 How much does it cost to watch Italian football in 2026/27? We compare season ticket prices across #SerieA - ranking each club by price and revealing where you can watch football for just £9.45 per game Read more 👉 calcioengland.com/2026/07/31/j...

Just The Ticket: The Price of Italian Football 2026/27

We’ve scoured the websites of every Serie A club to compile our annual analysis of season ticket prices for the 2026/27 campaign. The pricing landscape has become increasingly complex. Beyond the s…

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 6d ago

This statement by UEFA on FIFA attempting to sell off the World Cup gave me goosebumps, what a statement - the beautiful game deserves no less “As so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.”

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Pallonate in Faccia@pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social · last wk.

What is happening to Italian football? I tried to answer this question in the last episode of The End of Sport.

The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social · last wk.

Pirlo, Polymarket, and the Decline and Fall of Italian Football @valmoggia.bsky.social of @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social joins to discuss the Pirlo/Russia/gambling scandal and what it teaches us about the larger structural problems in Italian football. open.spotify.com/episode/4uBs...

David Whitley@mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · last wk.

On kids' reading, a few half-formed thoughts from experience. 1. Give them a shelf with plenty of variety to choose from. Different genres and styles. Allow them to gravitate to what they fancy on any given day. (World of Books is good for keeping costs down - www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb )

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