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Selena Daly

@selenadaly.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism. selenadaly.com

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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Bit of a long shot - would anyone have a pdf of this memoir by Mario Magri - 'Una vita per la libertà. Diciassette anni di confino politico di un martire delle Fosse Ardeatine'? Grazie!
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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The DfE line is particularly and bleakly consistent
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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We 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.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh totally, when we teach 20 weeks per year and have Zoom etc living a good distance from campus is more than doable and often the more desirable option.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I 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.
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Irish in Britain @irishinbritain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Share 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
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Benedetta Carnaghi @benecarnaghi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If 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.
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Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congratulations, Vanda! This will be a fantastic book - can't wait to read it.
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The 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/...
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History Lab x Migration and Mobility Seminar: New Research Showcase
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Prof. 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
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Really 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/...
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Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
For the @alcs.co.uk users in the audience - it looks like our statements are available in the members area!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Another 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...
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Emigrant Soldiers. Mobilising Italians Abroad in the First World War
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If 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...
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Looking forward to this seminar on the teaching of migration history at schools, universities and broader society at Università di Torino
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Just in time for St Patrick's Day, a little piece I wrote about Ireland's Italian chippers. italysegreta.com/how-italians...
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How Italians Came to Run Ireland’s Chippers - Italy Segreta
From Italian villages to Irish chippers: the story of families who fried, served, and shaped a nation’s taste.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A 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...
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The French are in uproar about gen Z not lunching with colleagues. I’m on Team Solo Dining | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
For once we can celebrate a British custom: grabbing lunch away from your colleagues to do whatever you like, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I 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.
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Found a Guy Kazama @jcoley3.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Right around 1200 started feeling like Grendel was waiting for me
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
A great list of recent First World War scholarship here … and thanks for the shout-out for my book too! ☺️
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Really 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!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thank you! Kind of you to write. It’s a very unusual phenomenon alright!
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New 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...
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Thank you! But NB my name is Selena not Serena!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This 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!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Extremely interesting and beautiful, imo (I’ve written a book and lots of articles about the Futurists). But yes, their political stances left a lot to be desired!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Not sure that checks out, historically speaking. Supporters of Italian Fascism produced some fantastic avant-garde artworks.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is fantastic! There can’t have been very many Italians in Dakar - I didn’t come across any who returned to serve in WW1 either.
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Hello 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
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Fabio Simonetti @fabiosimonetti.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Have 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!
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Introduction
Abstract. This chapter establishes the framework for examining the overlooked encounter between British soldiers and Italian civilians during the Allied oc
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hello! 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!
Sheet of information on the locating loss project which aims to explore histories of infertility through landscapes and spaces. Please Dm me for more info if needed!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Looking forward to reading this series, as a fellow historian who never studied history at university! Intanto buon anno!
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
5.20 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
The Vittorio Emanuele Theatre in Messina before the 1908 earthquake.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I 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...
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The Worst of Times: Up to my elbows in ice-cream: Chris Rea talks to
There 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...
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
There 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.
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Italian 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.
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Italian cuisine wins UNESCO World Heritage status - Food & Wine - Ansa.it
Italian 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)
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/12/2025
We 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.
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Pitch my Project: an opportunity for early career historians to present their work at the Chalke History Festival 2026 - RHS
Have 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...
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This is the kind of statistic that never cuts through into public debate, more’s the pity.
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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Are 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!
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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REF: DfEHIS - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast
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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 · 12/11/2025
(I signed a few copies which were apparently going to be sent to Maynooth campus bookshop!)
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ah no worries. UCD is a bit of a trek! Went very well - 3 generations of my family present! See you next week!
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Have just registered! Look forward to hearing more about the project.
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Fascinating 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...
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President Connolly speaks of 'intrinsic worth' of Irish
The Irish language has been a central part of President Catherine Connolly's political life and of her election campaign for the presidency.
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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
Every 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).
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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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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We 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...
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Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Congrats on your fellowship. Just looked up the blurb. Looks like a fascinating project. Good luck!
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