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Marzia Maccaferri

@marzmac.bsky.social
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Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian @Queen Mary University of London. Real expertise: James Bond and shoes. In English e italiano.

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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 12h
A few words on the Labour Party Conference and Burnham's speech (in Italian). www.radioradicale.it/scheda/80005...
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Otto e Cinquanta - Regno Unito, Burnham punta al proporzionale e a sganciare le pensioni dai salari per l'assistenza gratuita agli anziani
Radio Radicale è un'emittente storica che trasmette e pubblica online ogni giorno il Parlamento e i principali eventi di attualità politica e istituzionale
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are in London tomorrow, you might be interested in this iiclondra.esteri.it/en/gli_event...
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Malaparte, Englishmen and others
Malaparte, Englishmen and Others International Seminar 30 September 2026, 6 pm Casa Italia, Italian Cultural Institute, London 4–5 Buckingham Gate London SW1E 6JP Complex, charismatic and provocative,...
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After Ragionieri, Zangheri, Sereni, Cantimori, and Hobsbawm, now me too. My latest article, just published in Studi Storici. Pretty proud! www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.7375/...
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Memorie del V-Day nel Regno Unito dopo Brexit. Sovranità, tradizione e postcolonialità
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Unsolicited advice.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Marc Bloch or Block? Panthéon, Paris. A tiny mistake that doesn’t take away from a great exhibition.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Politics is conceived as a market in which someone puts up the capital, someone distributes the benefits, and everyone must know which side of the transaction they are on. My two cents on donations and democracy (in Italian). appunti.substack.com/p/la-democra...
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La democrazia in vendita
In Gran Bretagna sono i miliardari a trasferire denaro a un partito; negli Stati Uniti è il presidente a promettere denaro agli elettori: la rappresentanza diventa transazione
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Daniel Gover @danielgover.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In 2015, MPs voted to reject the assisted dying bill, a private member's bill. Tomorrow, exactly 11 years later to the day, MPs expect to vote on a similar bill. In May I wrote that supporters faced 4 key challenges. They've cleared the 1st. Tomorrow they face the 2nd challenge.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Proud to be part of this year’s Scuola di Cultura Politica, organised by the Casa della Cultura in Milan: Passaggio d’epoca. Quando il vecchio muore e il nuovo fatica a nascere. www.scuoladiculturapolitica.it/sitoSCP2026/...
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Home - Casa della Cultura
percorso di ricerca e di riflessione sui grandi nodi della cultura politica della sinistra italiana e europea.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I’m delighted to share the new Substack launched by Ilina Shanta Kabra, a former student of mine. I’m always very happy to hear what former students are working on. Ilina Shanta Kabra shantawrites.substack.com?r=5kvlbe&utm...
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Ilina Shanta Kabra | Substack
Click to read Ilina Shanta Kabra, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A plate of overcooked pasta did not defeat fascism, but it announced, publicly and collectively, that fascism could be defeated. Thanks to the Istituto Cervi in Reggio Emilia for keeping this tradition alive. jacobin.com/2026/07/past...
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LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What can Andy Burnham actually do? More charisma and better communication skills will be helpful, but what about the structural problems facing the Government? Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social reflects on what's in Burnham's power to do as the new Prime Minister. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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What can Andy Burnham actually do? | LSE British Politics
Andy Burnham might be more charismatic than Keir Starmer but the problems he is inheriting go beyond personality. Can he really make a difference?
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#lostintranslation #philology or #philosophy
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Keir Starmer governs a country he no longer represents. My thoughts, in Italian. www.editorialedomani.it/politica/eur...
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Farage trionfa alle amministrative, il Labour crolla. La doccia scozzese di Starmer
Il voto amministrativo britannico, soprattutto in Scozia e nel Galles, scatena un terremoto politico: Reform spazza via i conservatori e assurge a partito nazionale, i Verdi crescono meno del previsto...
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
*Reminder: Deadline Approaching* Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Deadline: 4 May 2026. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field. QMUL - Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2026 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Algunas reflexiones mías sobre el #eurocomunismo. sinpermiso.info/textos/la-te...
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La "tercera vía" del eurocomunismo: un experimento fallido, un legado político central
La izquierda europea vuelve a enfrentarse a toda una serie de crisis interrelacionadas, configuradas por arraigados desafíos estructurales, turbulencias económicas y dinámicas políticas internas e int...
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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'The Silences of Christopher Hill', Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
Talk about Christopher Hill's work
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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. www.editorialedomani.it/politica/eur...
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Regno Unito, il trionfo “locale” dei Verdi è un colpo fatale per il governo Starmer
Il Labour crolla alle elezioni nel collegio di Gorton and Denton: si tratta di un voto nato da una manovra tattica interna al partito. È una crisi dalla quale trarrà vantaggio l’ultradestra di Farage....
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
To be cited in The #Guardian alongside the pantheon of “#Gramsci scholars.” Done. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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'"Emotional Anarchists"? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left - scope, limits, and missed opportunities'.
Discussion about anarchy and the New Left
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
My apologies, a nasty flu has me confined to bed. @cambsforeurope.bsky.social
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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 open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
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L’alternativa alla destra nasce nelle città
Il municipalismo socialista di Zohran Mamdani a New York è parte di una lunga tradizione che passa da Bologna e Londra
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Istituto/Fondazione #Gramsci 1950-2025. youtu.be/C4ILCcwShso?...
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1950 | 2025
YouTube video by Fondazione Gramsci
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I did it again. #PhD2 17/12/2025
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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!
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📝 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 🔗 buff.ly/wkD4n6A
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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?
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Some reflections on Starmer's crisis (in Italian). Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com. Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo. open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
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Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo
La vittoria del premier laburista in Gran Bretagna aveva riacceso le speranze delle sinistre socialdemocratiche in tutta Europa. Cosa è andato storto?
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you are in Florence this week, join us. www.sissco.it/wp-content/u...
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
An importa new archive. enricoberlinguer.fondazionegramsci.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
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Enrico Berlinguer
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@modernitaly.bsky.social
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
La #Resistenza italiana 80 anni dopo. #ModernItaly e #Asmi ospitati alla #Luiss.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
La #Resistenza italiana 80 anni dopo. #ModernItaly e #Asmi ospitati alla #Luiss.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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 open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
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Democrazia vs popolo
L’eterno ritorno di Nigel Farage e il successo di Reform certifica che in Gran Bretagna si sta sgretolando il rapporto tra istituzioni e meccanismi democratici con la legittimazione popolare
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Mentre capisco, e magari un po' condivido, quell'atteggiamento del "io-ve-lo-avevo-detto" nei confronti del partito laburista che ha subito una bella batosta alle elezioni locali,
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After 100 Years, Britain’s Two-Party Political System May Be Crumbling (Gift Article)
Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party, Reform U.K., is presenting a serious challenge to the governing Labour Party and to the opposition Conservatives.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In a little-known article from 1977, Eric #Hobsbawm argued that Antonio #Gramsci was able to theorize the concept of #hegemony so effectively because he was Italian.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Le mie ultime 10 righe. Grazie a Stefano Feltri per l'ospitalità. La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
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La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer
Il premier britannico è il promotore del nuovo formato intergovernativo che discute la strategia europea sull’Ucraina. Analisi del nuovo “starmerismo” globale
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Unsolicited reading suggestion: This is a fantastic book—one of the best I’ve read in years. It’s the kind of book I wish I had written myself. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Naples 1925
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history  A New Yorker “Bes...
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
My two cents on #Starmer and #Europe. In Italian. www.editorialedomani.it/politica/mon...
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L’europeista riluttante Starmer adesso deve fare una scelta
Nel vuoto di leadership dell’Ue, il Regno Unito sembra aver puntato sul ritorno a una politica europea diretta dai governi e dagli stati, non dalle istituzioni comunitarie. Una vecchia storica posizio...
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Does the Times regret its contributions to those attacks?
NYT editorial: America will regret Trump’s attacks on transgender citizens
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Writing assistant.
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Just realised that today is both the birthday of #EPThompson, #StuartHall and my father. That can’t be a coincidence!
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
New collections today! • J.J. Barlow Papers • Paul Robeson Collection • Cartazes da Revolução Portuguesa (Posters from the Portuguese Revolution) • MOVE Organisation collection • South Asian Organizations in North America Collection • The Art of Protest poster collection
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Do you have a proposal for an innovative new seminar to join the IHR Research Seminar programme? We are looking for 3 fresh seminar series to launch in 2025-26. Applications are open now - deadline of 31 March. Full details of what we are looking for and how to apply here:
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IHR Research Seminars - New Series (2025)
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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies".
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George Newth @georgenewth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Now in print: my article with @marzmac.bsky.social on the Lega Nord's role in normalising fascist discourse as 'common sense' in Italy. Things have got progressively worse since we wrote this a few years ago. A short 🧵 about the article (1/7) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From performative anti-fascism to post-fascism: the Lega (Nord)’s political discourse in historical context
This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on the Lega (Nord) by examining the resemiotisation of the party’s early discourse of ‘performative anti-fascism’ under Umberto Bossi into...
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