Our final seminar in the #NewLeftHistories series, supported by the #RaphaelSamuelHistoryCentre, took place yesterday — and it was a great success.
We concluded our first spring term with a fascinating paper by James Crossley.
We are already working on the programme for the autumn term.
Call for Papers.
New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field.
QMUL - Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2026
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Algunas reflexiones mías sobre el #eurocomunismo.
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Second seminar in the series #NewLeftHistories.
5 March 2026, 16:30
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square - London
Join us!
Mike Braddick discusses Hill’s intellectual life, with particular reference to a central puzzle—his political and methodological commitments after 1956.
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Il Labour crolla a Gorton and Denton; vincono i Verdi, con una candidata che fino a poco tempo fa sarebbe stata perfetta per il Labour.
Le mie 10 righe su Gorton and Denton.
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To be cited in The #Guardian alongside the pantheon of “#Gramsci scholars.” Done.
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I am thrilled to announce the first event in New Left Histories.
Sophie Scott-Brown
“Emotional Anarchists”? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left: scope, limits, and missed opportunities.
5 February 2026, 16:30–18:00
Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square - London
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My apologies, a nasty flu has me confined to bed.
@cambsforeurope.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani’s socialist municipalism in New York is part of a long tradition that runs through Bologna and London. And yes, it has something to do with Antonio Gramsci in English.
In Italian.
L’alternativa alla destra nasce nelle città
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Istituto/Fondazione #Gramsci 1950-2025.
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I did it again.
#PhD2
17/12/2025
The @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Handbook of @modernitaly.bsky.social Conference #day1. A new approach to the long history of Italy through transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.
Not sure I’ll agree with this book or its thesis, but I’m definitely going to read it. And for the first time in my career as a historian, my narrow, nerdy interests are part of the public debate, and that feels great!
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR
'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social
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Gramscian friends, help me out here: I can’t find the reference to an article on the German translation of the Prison Notebooks, probably published in the International Gramsci Journal.
Do you remember it?
Eric Hobsbawm, writing in 2007 for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica confirmed: ‘I think we in Britain were among the first to notice Gramsci, mainly because many British soldiers who returned home after fighting in Italy had heard of him.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
English historian Christopher Hill, though stating that Gramsci’s work was never discussed within the Communist Historians Group admitted that ‘the members of the Group had arrived independently at some of the ideas which Gramsci had so effectively presented’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
Some reflections on Starmer's crisis (in Italian).
Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com.
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo.
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If you are in Florence this week, join us.
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@modernitaly.bsky.social
Farage ha vinto con parole d’ordine di sinistra, sostenute però da una piattaforma di destra radicale (servizi ai soli britannici, nazionalizzazione in funzione militare).
Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni
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e a una banalizzazione del discorso pubblico - come stiamo un po' tutti facendo impuntando tutto a quel "cattivone" di Starmer la sola colpa.
Ma non continuiamo a fare confusione fra le nostre personali antipatie politiche e l'analisi politica di sistema. Qui c'è in ballo qualcosa di più grande.
che deve trovare rappresentanza attraverso un sistema elettorale rigidamente maggioritario porterà a una polarizzazione costante - come ha già mostrato il trend del partito conservatore -
Le cause sono molteplici e di lungo periodo e le implicazioni sono profonde: un sistema ormai diventato faragginosamente multipartitico
Non facciamo confusione. Reform e Farage hanno buttato sul tavolo le nazionalizzazioni dell'acciaierie di Scunthorpe usando un leitmotif "di sinistra" ma su una piattaforma di destra nazionalista.
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molto banalmente, non si spiega il motivo che ha spinto gli elettori - sempre meno: affluenza al di sotto del 50% - a sostenere un partito che promette più tagli al sistema di welfare, vuole sostituire l'NHS con le assicurazioni private e ha già assicurato licenziamenti á la Musk.
