Reposted by Selena DalyFirst World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We are recruiting new Associate Editors! First World War Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for First World War Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, is seeking to expand its editorial team. 12128
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think this post is right about a lack of belonging in universities but as well as job losses the post-Covid reality of only meeting colleagues remotely is also part of the picture. 141
Reposted by Selena DalyIrish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Share your memories! Join Stella Moss and Paul Callery for a free history workshop on memories of Irish pubs through the years 10-1pm Saturday 25 July Senate House, University of London Reserve your spot by 20 July 174
Reposted by Selena DalyBenedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026If you are in London on May 21-22, please join us for our workshop, “Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices,” at the @ilcs.bsky.social. You can find registration details and the schedule here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/.... This event is open to all.ilcs.sas.ac.ukTeaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices 002
Reposted by Selena DalyKathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The second @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility showcase is approaching fast! We have another round of fascinating papers from brilliant young scholars - sign up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...history.ac.ukHistory Lab x Migration and Mobility Seminar: New Research Showcase 047
Reposted by Selena DalyProf. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 01/04/2026#skystorians #hivemind I have a family taking 5 rooms at the Tower Inn in Verona in 1796. They pay 20 Venetian lira per day - 6 lira per person/day for dinner, & 4 lira per person/day for servants' dinner & supper. Was this cheap or expensive? What would it have been in £? #c18th #Italy 3612
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Really pleased to share the full programme for the 'Teaching Anti-Fascism Today' workshop (London 21-22 May). Presentations on teaching in UK, Italy, Spain, Brazil, US (and elsewhere) as well as reflections on AI, embodied learning and archaeology and much more. ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...ilcs.sas.ac.ukTeaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices 095
Reposted by Selena DalyChris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026For the @alcs.co.uk users in the audience - it looks like our statements are available in the members area! 044
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Another week - another book talk! This time at the University of Milan - if anyone happens to be in the area, do come say hi! studistorici.unimi.it/it/eventi/em...studistorici.unimi.itEmigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War 030
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026If anyone happens to be in Padua tomorrow, I’ll be speaking about my book Emigrant Soldiers at 1pm. Remote attendance possible - see email address to book here www.dissgea.unipd.it/presentazion... 050
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Looking forward to this seminar on the teaching of migration history at schools, universities and broader society at Università di Torino 050
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Just in time for St Patrick's Day, a little piece I wrote about Ireland's Italian chippers. italysegreta.com/how-italians...italysegreta.comHow Italians Came to Run Ireland’s Chippers - Italy SegretaFrom Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste. 1107
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026A 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...theguardian.comThe French are in uproar about gen Z not lunching with colleagues. I’m on Team Solo Dining | Rhiannon Lucy CosslettFor once we can celebrate a British custom: grabbing lunch away from your colleagues to do whatever you like, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 010
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I 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. 030
Reposted by Selena DalyFound a Guy Kazama @jcoley3.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Right around 1200 started feeling like Grendel was waiting for me 42662
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026A great list of recent First World War scholarship here … and thanks for the shout-out for my book too! ☺️ 041
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Really 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! 081
Reposted by Selena DalyImmigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026New 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... 11910
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This 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! 050
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Not sure that checks out, historically speaking. Supporters of Italian Fascism produced some fantastic avant-garde artworks. 181
Reposted by Selena DalyNiamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Hello 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 12535
Reposted by Selena DalyFabio Simonetti @fabiosimonetti.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Have 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!academic.oup.comIntroductionAbstract. This chapter establishes the framework for examining the overlooked encounter between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied oc 2107
Reposted by Selena DalyNiamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Hello! 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! 42526
Reposted by Selena DalyNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 28/12/20245.20 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 16222
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025I 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...independent.co.ukThe Worst of Times: Up to my elbows in ice-cream: Chris Rea talks toThere were nine of us, lots of screaming, crisis after crisis, somebody would be in the bathroom when someone else had an important date. Every meal would be a time bomb, rows breaking out from one si... 141
Reposted by Selena Daly Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025There 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. 023
Reposted by Selena DalyNicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Italian 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.ansa.itItalian cuisine wins UNESCO World Heritage status - Food & Wine - Ansa.itItalian 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) 6499
Reposted by Selena DalyRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/12/2025We 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.bit.lyPitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHSHave 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... 05247
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is the kind of statistic that never cuts through into public debate, more’s the pity. 120
Reposted by Selena DalyVanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Are 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! 01713
Reposted by Selena DalyIrish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...qub.ac.ukREF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast 0212
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 14/11/2025An 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...royalhistsoc.orgPhD Studentship on Family Separation, funded by ERC - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - RHSPhD 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... 02529
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Fascinating 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...rte.iePresident Connolly speaks of 'intrinsic worth' of IrishThe Irish language has been a central part of President Catherine Connolly's political life and of her election campaign for the presidency. 050
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025On 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...ucl.ac.ukExploring the health and wellbeing of Italian migrants in Britain todayA one-day workshop supported by UCL Health Humanities Seed Funding. Organised by Dr Selena Daly, Associate Professor in Italian Studies, UCL 061
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Every country should conduct their presidential elections as Ireland does.* That apple tart looks delicious. *(or, at the very least, should have elections to vote for a head of state). 020
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025This 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...newbooksnetwork.comSelena Daly, "Emigrant Soldiers: Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War" (Cambridge UP, 2025) - New Books Network 0105
Reposted by Selena DalyElisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 24/10/2025We are recruiting again. Come join the Trondheim team of BLOCKADE as a 4 year, fully funded postdoc in Modern Economic History - you'll be working with Prof. Jonas Scherner and in one of the most beautiful university towns in Europe (evidence from last visit below)! www.hsozkult.de/searching/id... 095
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Earlier this week, I had a launch at UCL for my book Emigrant Soldiers. I was moved and grateful to see so many friends and colleagues show up to support me. Grazie a tutti. And to Heather Jones who did a wonderful job of contextualising the book (and driving sales!) 180
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 08/10/2025In dispatches from insane prices in central London, please say hello to the £12.75 sourdough loaf. 240
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Very glad to have managed to see Thessaloniki in the sunshine after two days of rain! Interesting mix of Byzantine architecture, Roman ruins and container ships heading into the port! It’s been a great location for the First World War Studies conference with wonderful hospitality. 090
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Was very sorry to miss the inaugural meeting of the new IHR Migration and Mobility seminar series (greetings from Greece!) but glad to see that it got off to such a cracking start. Looking forward to the rest of the events this year. 020
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Very pleased to be officially beginning my Leverhulme Research Fellowship year at the International First World War Studies conference in (a rainy) Thessaloniki. Three days of talk about war at sea! 0150
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025A few weeks ago I was interviewed by the Danish newspaper Politken about the memory of Fascism in Italy today, inspired by the debut of Mussolini's great-grandson's in the Serie A (paywalled unfortunately). politiken.dk/internationa...politiken.dkDiktatorens oldebarn holder sig fra at have sit efternavn på ryggenInternationalt | Seneste internationale nyheder og begivenheder som f.eks. tsunamien i Stillehavet, krigene i Ukraine og Gaza. Vi dækker, hvad der sker. 130
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A great roundtable about how we teach and assess public history in UK universities today. I definitely agree that it’s easier to do public history if your specialism is the country in which you work. Trying to find the Italian angle for UK institutions is often a challenge! 0152
Reposted by Selena DalyUCL European Institute @uclei.bsky.social · 26/09/2025This book by the excellent @selenadaly.bsky.social, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, looks really interesting. Come celebrate its launch! @uclselcs.bsky.social, @artshumsucl.bsky.social 074
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Please 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! 01411
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I’m en route to Oxford to present one of the keynotes at this conference on return migration to Italy. Alice Gussoni & Fanny Clemente have curated an excellent programme full of papers I’m excited to hear. It promises to be a stimulating couple of days! migration.web.ox.ac.uk/event/return... 0152
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Today is the first time in 10 years that I’m not about to start a new year of teaching as I’m starting a year-long Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Strange not to be in the thick of induction but very grateful to have my first uninterrupted research time in a decade! 1130
Reposted by Selena DalyIrish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Registration closes 7 Sept. 35th Irish Conference of Historians, 12-13 Sept. @maynoothuniversity.ie Please share widely. @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @mu-ssi.bsky.social @mulibrary.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social 11716
Reposted by Selena DalyVanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Good morning! If you want to start your week listening to my thoughts on Mussolini, and why wouldn't you, you can hear me chat with Iain Dale on his Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs and Dictators podcast here or wherever you usually find your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...podcasts.apple.com215. Benito Mussolini – Italy (1922-43)Podcast Episode · Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs & Dictators · 10/08/2025 · 58m 0164