Share your memories! Join Stella Moss and Paul Callery for a free history workshop on memories of Irish pubs through the years 10-1pm Saturday 25 July Senate House, University of London Reserve your spot by 20 July

If you are in London on May 21-22, please join us for our workshop, “Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices,” at the @ilcs.bsky.social. You can find registration details and the schedule here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/.... This event is open to all.

Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices

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The second @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility showcase is approaching fast! We have another round of fascinating papers from brilliant young scholars - sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

History Lab x Migration and Mobility Seminar: New Research Showcase

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#skystorians #hivemind I have a family taking 5 rooms at the Tower Inn in Verona in 1796. They pay 20 Venetian lira per day - 6 lira per person/day for dinner, & 4 lira per person/day for servants' dinner & supper. Was this cheap or expensive? What would it have been in £? #c18th #Italy

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/...

Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices

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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...

How Italians Came to Run Ireland’s Chippers - Italy Segreta

From Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste.

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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...

The French are in uproar about gen Z not lunching with colleagues. I’m on Team Solo Dining | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

For once we can celebrate a British custom: grabbing lunch away from your colleagues to do whatever you like, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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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! ☺️

Vanda Wilcox@vandawilcox.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ok, I see a lot of very, very old things being recommended here! I hugely enjoyed Alex Watson's The Fortress: The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands David Stevenson's 1917: War Peace and Revolution is excellent Capital Cities at War (2vols) - exemplary comparative history

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!

Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman@niamhroisin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I think that the people who made this list do not understand what historians actually *do*. We don’t just remember facts and dates and spit them out when asked!

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

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... Because they're fascists?

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!

Introduction

Abstract. This chapter establishes the framework for examining the overlooked encounter between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied oc

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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.

Chloë J. A. Pieters@cjapieters.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm so pleased to share this Call for Papers for a conference on Food and Nutrition in Wartime in the Modern World, 19th-21st centuries, organised with my colleagues Chris Batten and @rfhodge.bsky.social, kindly supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Submissions to foodandwarconf@gmail.com by 22/12/25!

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.

Italian cuisine wins UNESCO World Heritage status - Food & Wine - Ansa.it

Italian cuisine was added to UNESCO's 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' lists at a meeting of the UN agency's Intergovernmental Committee in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANSA)

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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.

Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS

Have you ever wanted to share your research with a wide audience? Would you like to gain experience in public speaking, and be supported to develop imaginative ways to communicate your research to the...

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

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8mo ago

What do UK graduates do? Lots of information in this annual report. A reminder that Humanities graduates are quite employable. Compare unemployment rates for Biology (8.4%), Chemistry (5.9%) and Physics (8.0%) with English literature (6.4%), History (7.6%) and Languages (7.6%) for example.

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!

First World War Studies@fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 8mo ago

👥 Associate Editors introductions: Andrew Frayn Continuing our introductions of the FWWS associate editors, this week we’re pleased to highlight Dr. Andrew Frayn, Associate Editor of First World War Studies and a scholar working at the intersection of literature and history.

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...

PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHS

PhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by European Research Council Call for Applications, deadline - 1 March 2026 This is a call for expressions of interest for a European Research Council-fund...

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