Dr Amy King

University of Bristol asks humanities and modern languages staff to voluntarily quit This scheme comes as part of the 'managed decline' of schools deemed less profitable to the university

Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include:

What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Friends! The deadline is approaching. Our Antifascist Pedagogies workshop promises to be a winner, with some fascinating proposals already in and some excellent talks lined up.

Hard agree, but I need them specifically to experience week 10

I'd love them to do a week in the life of a P3 colleague in Week 10.

Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead

This roundtable brings together Simone Brioni (Stony Brook) and @amycking.bsky.social (Bristol), in conversation with John Foot (Bristol), to examine the legacy and memory of 1970s political violence and massacres in Italy.
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#Italy #NeoFascism #Rome

Thank you for writing this! We’re both really pleased to see WMAB out in the world

Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead

Dec. 3rd round table (also online) with Simone Brioni, Amy King (@amycking.bsky.social), and John Foot (@footymac.bsky.social): Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead (@ihr.bsky.social, #skystorians) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

CfP. Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices

Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.

Join us & bash the Fash?

Not sure I’ll ever recover from seeing kids at the hotel window waving at antifascists, disappearing for a few minutes, and returning with a homemade sign saying ‘thank you’

Vastly outnumbered by antifascists, but nonetheless deeply depressing to watch the so-called ‘Bristol patriots’ march to a refugee hotel with Crusader iconography and chants about extermination. But, in the words of the counter protest, “there are many many more of us than you”

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...

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...

Exploring the health and wellbeing of Italian migrants in Britain today A one-day workshop supported by UCL Health Humanities Seed Funding. Organised by Dr Selena Daly, Associate Professor in Italian Studies, UCL

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...

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...

Ep. 376 - Martiri di destra Podcast Episode · Timbuctu · 24/10/2025 · 14m

10/10 delighted to see a podcast from @ilpost.it today about my book! Interesting discussion of right-wing martyr stories like Charlie Kirk today, too.

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Routledge Handbook of Dark Events: Celebrations, Heritage, and Customs of Death and the Macabre This handbook explores and critically evaluates key debates and controversies in the emerging field of Dark Events. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and ...

Very much looking forward to seeing this out in the world by the end of the year. I've got a chapter on commemoration of the Nasiriyah dead in Italy. Looks a wonderfully rich collection.

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dude’s giving Foro Italico

Thanks! No pressure, but would love to hear about your research

Will this be recorded? Sounds fascinating, but I have teaching then booo

Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018-2019 Where Monsters Are Born is an Omeka-based digital archive featuring over forty neo-fascist and anti-fascist posters, stickers, and various ephemera from the streets and alleyways of Rome, Italy.

'a project replete with contradictions and counterintuitive interventions, to the advantage of all who engage with it [...] embodies a dynamism that defies traditional methods of scholastic intervention.'

wheremonstersareborn.com

Delighted to see such a great review of Where Monsters Are Born, our educational resource that aims to improve visual literacy of neofascist propaganda, in the Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies! bit.ly/3IdDtPC

@brianjgriffith.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!

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A generous, well-written, and thorough review of 'Fathers of the Lega' by @amycking.bsky.social
'Richly researched and grounded in scholarly debates [...]
Newth’s book reminds us that ideological strands thought to be dormant may yet re-emerge in new contexts'
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Wow this is so so bleak

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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"The Pride of Britain"

Fox - Charged under the Sexual Offence act for an upskirt photo on Twitter

Hopkins - Detained in South Africa for spreading racial hatred and deported from Australia for breaching Covid

Tommy "10 names" Robinson - Serial convict

A really strong, thought provoking start to the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social annual conference on ‘Public History in an age of Anxiety’ with @cathfletcher.bsky.social on museums and gun heritage, and Lisa Goff on the challenges of public history in Trump’s America

Very much looking forward to discussing antifascist pedagogies in Belfast this week!

Feel like they’d be firm friends with Italy’s umarell