#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/...
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!
Thank you! Kind of you to write. It’s a very unusual phenomenon alright!
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...
Thank you! But NB my name is Selena not Serena!
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!
Extremely interesting and beautiful, imo (I’ve written a book and lots of articles about the Futurists). But yes, their political stances left a lot to be desired!
Not sure that checks out, historically speaking. Supporters of Italian Fascism produced some fantastic avant-garde artworks.
This is fantastic! There can’t have been very many Italians in Dakar - I didn’t come across any who returned to serve in WW1 either.
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!
Sheet of information on the locating loss project which aims to explore histories of infertility through landscapes and spaces. Please Dm me for more info if needed!
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!
Looking forward to reading this series, as a fellow historian who never studied history at university! Intanto buon anno!
The Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina before the 1908 earthquake.
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!