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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.

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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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 · 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 · 11/12/2025

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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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Eric Hobsbawm, writing in 2007 for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica confirmed: ‘I think we in Britain were among the first to notice Gramsci, mainly because many British soldiers who returned home after fighting in Italy had heard of him. #Gramscianisation #new_paper

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Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

English historian Christopher Hill, though stating that Gramsci’s work was never discussed within the Communist Historians Group admitted that ‘the members of the Group had arrived independently at some of the ideas which Gramsci had so effectively presented’. #Gramscianisation #new_paper

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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 · 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 · 27/04/2025

particularly by selectively disseminating messages within what we now call the media system.

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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.