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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Our last panel is chaired by the head of our project, @matteomillan.bsky.social, and includes papers from Laura Schettini and our team member, @roxanebm.bsky.social. The topics are firearms in French households as well as women's self-defence in France and Italy. #euguns #globarms #unipd #sorbonne

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

EU-GUNS & GlobArms are not slowing down and coming to you with a new event! In cooperation with @arnaudhoute.bsky.social from @sorbonne-universite.fr, @roxanebm.bsky.social, @azzab.bsky.social and @matteomillan.bsky.social are organising a symposium on self-defence and private security in FR and IT.

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Faculty of Arts at Saint Mary's University @smuarts.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Dr. @rblakebrown.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social was a visiting professor last month at @unipd.bsky.social in #Italy. His activities included a guest lecture on "Canadian Gun Culture and Firearm Regulation, 1867-1935". @euguns.bsky.social @matteomillan.bsky.social #SMUHistory #artswithimpact

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The head of our project, @matteomillan.bsky.social, is now outlining the EU-GUNS project, its goals and lines of research. #aha2026 #euguns #gunhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're back with our series of staff introductions, and @martinjx2.bsky.social is up next! Born and raised in Stockholm, he studied history at the universities of Uppsala, Edinburgh and Gothenburg...

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IHC @ihchistory.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📣 #STEXEU is hiring an early-career researcher! The researcher will join the project team, led by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, and focus on historical research on authoritarianism, states of exception, and the crisis of democracy in #Germany in the years 1900-1939. 👉 ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/jr-stexeu...

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Junior Researcher — STEXEU Project — DE | Opportunities | IHC

Call for the recruitment of a Junior Researcher for the STEXEU project — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship, focusing on the case of Germany.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

What a day at the AHA! The EU-GUNS folks put together three outstanding panels on US-Europe gun history. So good!

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

EU-GUNS & GlobArms are on the road! We are going to Chicago for the annual meeting of @historians.org, the world’s largest annual gathering of historians, where we will meet new and old colleagues and share our innovative research on the history of European gun cultures, gun control and arms trade.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The second day of the workshop "New Perspectives on the History of Firearms" has begun with Prof. @matteomillan.bsky.social's introduction into the ERC EU-GUNS project. #gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Prof. Sven Reichardt is giving a talk about the use of guns by fascist paramilitaries in Italy and Germany #gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea

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Roxane Bonnardel Mira @roxanebm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@azzab.bsky.social and @matteomillan.bsky.social's conference starts today! @rblakebrown.bsky.social inaugurates the workshop with a microhistorical investigation on a Toronto-based arms retailer.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The workshop "New Perspectives on the History of Firearms" begins now! The organisers, @azzab.bsky.social and @matteomillan.bsky.social, have welcomed the audience. If you're in Padova, feel free to join us at Palazzo Liviano! (Pzza Capitaniato 7) #gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgeaunipd

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Roxane Bonnardel Mira @roxanebm.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

@historyned.bsky.social then discussed the role of German arms dealers in shaping the entrepreneurial imperial expansion

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Matteo Millan @matteomillan.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Domani per chi si trova a Padova

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It’s going to be a very busy week for the EU-GUNS and GlobArms projects! We have planned the following two events at @unipd.bsky.social:

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The Boer War (1899–1902) represented a crucial turning point in the education and leisure culture of the British youth. It encouraged the introduction of rifle shooting in schools and youth associations as well as the spread of miniature rifle clubs...

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's time to introduce our expert on the British gun history, Anna Moro! Anna is a PhD student in History at the University of Padua. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd #dissgea

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The EU-GUNS project investigates the second life of military rifles and how this seemingly obsolete hardware shaped the relationship between Europeans and guns for decades. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #europeanhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Old British Martini-Henry rifles — the weapon that helped conquer the British Empire in the second half of the 19th century — were converted into miniature rifles for training young British boys and for use in indoor shooting galleries.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Major manufacturers as well as artisanal gunsmiths converted French Gras and Italian Vetterli rifles into shotguns that were cheap enough to be affordable to many rural hunters and farmers.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

An often overlooked consequence of this was that millions of old-model rifles ended up in military stores. Some were sold to non-European countries or used in colonial wars, but hundreds of thousands ended up on the civilian market.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In the last third of the 19th century, major technological changes transformed the world of small arms. The invention of bolt-action rifles and, more importantly, smokeless powder meant that governments had to adopt new military rifle models to avoid falling behind in the arms race.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The next person from our team we would like to present is Assumpta Castillo Cañiz! She earned her PhD from the University of Padova in 2021 with a dissertation on political violence and armed associations in pre-World War I Europe, as part of the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque”.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A rifle’s journey often extends far beyond the battlefield it was built for. This image shows members of the Ulster Volunteer Force in Ireland marching in 1914 amid rising tensions over Home Rule. Among their weapons were likely Vetterli-Vitali rifles... #globarms #unipd #dissgea #europeanhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Meet our expert on the German gun history, Mathias Foit! He is a graduate of the University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Free University of Berlin, where he defended his doctoral thesis. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

And sometimes, archival research yields surprises! This pistol was manufactured and registered in 1911 by the Basque firm Esperanza y Unceta. Known as the “Victoria,” it is an adapted copy of the popular Browning 1906 model. #euguns #eugunssnippets #unipd #dissgea #spanishhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We continue presenting members of our fantastic research team - today, it's our expert on France, @roxanebm.bsky.social! Roxane Bonnardel Mira is a graduate of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Tours (France), where she obtained her PhD. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd

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Luca Bertolani Azeredo @luca1994.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In the coming months, EU-GUNS will further explore the significance of this duality for prewar Swedish shooting sports and the transformation of the role of guns in the public sphere. (Source for the photo: Stockholm City Museum, author unknown)

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Not only do the brothers’ outfits help us tell them apart, but they also highlight the simultaneous presence of military and civilian gun cultures at the games.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

In 1912, twin brothers Eric and Vilhelm Carlberg competed in the Olympics in central Stockholm. Today, the shooting range has been converted into a recreational park, but the firing point is still visible as a slight elevation. #euguns #eugunssnippets #swedishhistory #olympichistory #gunhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Historian Emelyne Godfrey explores how these strategies emerged as responses to growing anxieties around urban safety and women’s autonomy (2010). Source: The Sketch, 6th July 1910 Credit: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

In early 20th-century Britain, middle-class women took up jujitsu, adapted everyday objects like umbrellas into tools of self-defence, but also acquired gun models marketed especially to women. #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory #britishhistory Source: A.W. Gamage Ltd.: General Catalogue 1911

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Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Why did so many men enjoy picking up a rifle and practising shooting in the German Empire between 1871 and 1914? 📖 Presentation of the book by @camilleriana.bsky.social: Una cultura delle armi (Carocci, 2024) 🗓 29.05. at 17.30 Casa della #Memoria e della Storia #Siscalt #bookrecommendations

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

EU-GUNS and GlobArms are going to Chicago! We have been accepted to the next American Historical Association's Annual Meeting, where we will present our research on European arms control and gun culture and share a panel with established scholars of gun history. Yay!

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

EU-GUNS/GlobArms are collaborating with another project on the history of arms, “Linking Arms: Central Europe's Weapons Sector, 1954 – 1994”. We organised our first joint workshop last January. In March, we shared a panel at ESSHC in Leiden #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea #recetvienna #gunhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Newspaper readers in the 1910s felt they were living in an "age of the revolver", as investigated, for example, by the historian Dominique Kalifa. One of the aims of the EU-GUNS project is to study "the age of the revolver" and its consequences for ordinary people #euguns #eugunssnippets #gunhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Meet the team of EU-GUNS & GlobArms, two new and exciting research projects at the University of Padua on the social and cultural history of firearms. In the next few weeks, we will present the profiles of each researcher. Stay tuned for more! 😎 #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea #gunhistory

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Our colleague and team member, Assumpta Castillo Cañiz, has just published an article on the policies of civil armament and disarmament in Spain (1868-1936), the first article published as part of the EU-GUNS project #euguns #unipd #dissgea #gunhistory #spanishhistory @ayer-revista.bsky.social

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Desarme y rearme de civiles en España (1868-1936) | Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea

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