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Dr Amy King

@amycking.bsky.social
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Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Free book for a few days! "The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder. Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924–2024" by @amycking.bsky.social. The new book in our series Elements in History & Politics of Fascism,CambridgeUP. I am co-editor w/ @acostapinto.bsky.social: cup.org/4vEkaRQ @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
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The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century Regional History - The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Vannacci going full Trump
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's also free to read for two weeks, so now's the time to download if you're interested!
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Out (online) today! 🎉 'The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924–2024' is an exploration of how his memory shaped Italian antifascism, democratic nation-building, and debates over Fascism’s legacy, including responses from today’s far right. cup.org/3RE9ODE
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The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
What's the German word for 'a backdrop falling apart to reflect political doom'?
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Theresa May
ALT: Theresa May
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Friends, following the success of our Teaching Antifascism event in London in May (ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...), we are going to start a v. basic newsletter. It will include the sections in this image, and you can sign up here: forms.office.com/e/txSSt6K5cY
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Up on the CUP page so it must be real! The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder, coming 10 August...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/06/2026
Digital Trapdoors follows the online lives of a 17-year-old young man and a 22-year-old young woman. It shows how extremist ideas are “microdosed” through entertainment and lifestyle content, radicalising young people before they even realise it. hopenothate.org.uk/digital-trap...
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Digital Trapdoors: Gendered Pathways to Youth Radicalisation – HOPE not hate
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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” at @ilcs.bsky.social is off to a great start with Paz Guevara’s keynote. She describes the “Global Fascisms Exhibition,” which presented fascism not only as a historical phenomenon but as an ongoing global threat that transcends its historically confined definition.
“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” - Keynote 1, Paz Guevara
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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” is well underway. I was delighted to contribute to a session on “Anti-Fascism Teaching and Questions of Temporality,” where I discussed my experience teaching in Britain and the US alongside colleagues Marco Ruggieri, Marco Bernardi, and Daniel Brown @ilcs.bsky.social
“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” - Benedetta Carnaghi’s presentation on “Anti-Fascist Teaching in Europe and the United States”“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” - Benedetta Carnaghi’s presentation on “Anti-Fascist Teaching in Europe and the United States”“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” – Panel 4 with Benedetta Carnaghi, Marco Ruggieri, Marco Bernardi, and Daniel Brown“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” – Panel 4 with Benedetta Carnaghi, Marco Ruggieri, Marco Bernardi, and Daniel Brown
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Two days to go until Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices at @ilcs.bsky.social ! This free, two-day event will bring together educators engaged in an antifascist teaching practice amidst rising authoritarianism. Programme here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Brilliant event tonight in London at the Goethe Institute: a screening of Marcin Wierzchowski’s documentary Das Deutsche Volk (The German People) with a director Q&A after. It examines the impact of a racist attack in Germany in 2020 and the fight for justice. www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...
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Events | Goethe-Institut UK
Fri, 01.05.2026 – Goethe-Kino (Cinema Screening)
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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Argentine mini-Trump Milei restricts press freedom while his propaganda constantly asserts he is for freedom. This is how fascist propaganda works.
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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Congratulations Amy! As editors of the series we are so happy that this is the case for your excellent book! @acostapinto.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Delighted to have had final acceptance of my manuscript for Cambridge University Press's Elements in the History of Fascism series. If all goes to plan, 'The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024', should be published in a few months' time! 🎉
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The American Historical Association's Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is now live! @brianjgriffith.bsky.social and I have contributed a class on authoritarian aesthetics and appeals to youth, examining how authoritarians present obedience as progress. www.historians.org/module/autho...
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Authoritarian Aesthetics and Youth Appeals – AHA
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Registration is now open for 'Teaching Anti-Fascism: Developing and Shaping Practice'! Papers will be short, practical and informal. The event is free and over two days in London. All welcome! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My author copy has landed! I never knew what to do with this work, then a call for chapters arrived for this brilliant new handbook. So pleased to see this out in the world.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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
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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
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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...
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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.
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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.
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Where Monsters Are Born @wmab-2018-2019.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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. . . . #Italy #NeoFascism #Rome
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Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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/...
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Roundtable: Neofascism and the Memory of Italy’s Years of Lead
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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?
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CfP. Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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’
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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”
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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...
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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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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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...
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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
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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...
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Selena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Ep. 376 - Martiri di destra
Podcast Episode · Timbuctu · 24/10/2025 · 14m
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
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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 ...
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
dude’s giving Foro Italico
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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
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‘Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018–2019’ | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, ...
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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!
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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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.
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George Newth @georgenewth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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' www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
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Review of Newth (2024): Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective | John Benjamins
Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
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. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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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.
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
"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
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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Very much looking forward to discussing antifascist pedagogies in Belfast this week!
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Feel like they’d be firm friends with Italy’s umarell
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Yesterday, I was reassured to see there were National Guards inside a real crime hotspot: The Natural History Museum. Those criminal… fossils?
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Someone has immortalised the DC sandwich-thrower. This city works fast!
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
My journey home via Union Station, DC. What a time to be alive, honestly.
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Chuffed to see this review of my book in La Repubblica this week, by Benedetta Tobagi! Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Looks like I saw it just in time
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Big thanks to Nicola Guerra for this thorough and generous review of my book. Still surprises me to think of people spending time with my work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The politics of sacrifice: Remembering Italy’s Rogo di Primavalle
Published in Journal of Modern Italian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
My first 4 July weekend has been 10/10!
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Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature. newfascismsyllabus.com
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