Selena Daly

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

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

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

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 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)

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.

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...

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!

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

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...

(I signed a few copies which were apparently going to be sent to Maynooth campus bookshop!)

Ah no worries. UCD is a bit of a trek! Went very well - 3 generations of my family present! See you next week!

Have just registered! Look forward to hearing more about the project.

President Connolly speaks of 'intrinsic worth' of Irish The Irish language has been a central part of President Catherine Connolly's political life and of her election campaign for the presidency.

Fascinating to see the impact of Catherine Connolly's Presidency already in terms of the visibility of the Irish language. I can't ever remember seeing RTE print several paragraphs in Irish in a news article (with English translations). Tús maith! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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...