Dr Amy King

Super excited to see my book in La Repubblica today!

Impeccable timing as I prepare this week's teaching materials on contemporary far-right iconography/discourse and distant pasts... thanks Marco. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Really enjoyed recording this New Books Network pod! We discussed grief as a response to Fascism's emotional regime after Matteotti's murder, commemoration as resistance, & Fratelli d'Italia's negotiation of this uncomfortable reminder Fascism's inherent violence newbooksnetwork.com/the-afterlif...

Free book for a few days! "The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder. Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924–2024" by @amycking.bsky.social. The new book in our series Elements in History & Politics of Fascism,CambridgeUP. I am co-editor w/ @acostapinto.bsky.social: cup.org/4vEkaRQ @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org

Vannacci going full Trump

It's also free to read for two weeks, so now's the time to download if you're interested!

Out (online) today! 🎉 'The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924–2024' is an exploration of how his memory shaped Italian antifascism, democratic nation-building, and debates over Fascism’s legacy, including responses from today’s far right. cup.org/3RE9ODE

What's the German word for 'a backdrop falling apart to reflect political doom'?

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

Up on the CUP page so it must be real! The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder, coming 10 August...

Digital Trapdoors follows the online lives of a 17-year-old young man and a 22-year-old young woman. It shows how extremist ideas are “microdosed” through entertainment and lifestyle content, radicalising young people before they even realise it. hopenothate.org.uk/digital-trap...

“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” at @ilcs.bsky.social is off to a great start with Paz Guevara’s keynote. She describes the “Global Fascisms Exhibition,” which presented fascism not only as a historical phenomenon but as an ongoing global threat that transcends its historically confined definition.

“Teaching Anti-Fascism Today” is well underway. I was delighted to contribute to a session on “Anti-Fascism Teaching and Questions of Temporality,” where I discussed my experience teaching in Britain and the US alongside colleagues Marco Ruggieri, Marco Bernardi, and Daniel Brown @ilcs.bsky.social

Brilliant event tonight in London at the Goethe Institute: a screening of Marcin Wierzchowski’s documentary Das Deutsche Volk (The German People) with a director Q&A after. It examines the impact of a racist attack in Germany in 2020 and the fight for justice. www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ve...

Argentine mini-Trump Milei restricts press freedom while his propaganda constantly asserts he is for freedom. This is how fascist propaganda works.

Congratulations Amy! As editors of the series we are so happy that this is the case for your excellent book! @acostapinto.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Delighted to have had final acceptance of my manuscript for Cambridge University Press's Elements in the History of Fascism series. If all goes to plan, 'The Afterlife of a Fascist Murder: Giacomo Matteotti in Myth and Memory, 1924-2024', should be published in a few months' time! 🎉

The American Historical Association's Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is now live! @brianjgriffith.bsky.social and I have contributed a class on authoritarian aesthetics and appeals to youth, examining how authoritarians present obedience as progress. www.historians.org/module/autho...

My author copy has landed! I never knew what to do with this work, then a call for chapters arrived for this brilliant new handbook. So pleased to see this out in the world.

Things that would be interesting to know about the current contraction of UK academic staffing (and that it would actually be super helpful if REF2029 institutional SPRE statements were required to report on) include: What's the impact on the equality and diversity of academic staffing? 1/3

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Friends! The deadline is approaching. Our Antifascist Pedagogies workshop promises to be a winner, with some fascinating proposals already in and some excellent talks lined up.

This roundtable brings together Simone Brioni (Stony Brook) and @amycking.bsky.social (Bristol), in conversation with John Foot (Bristol), to examine the legacy and memory of 1970s political violence and massacres in Italy. . . . #Italy #NeoFascism #Rome

Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist. Join us & bash the Fash?

Not sure I’ll ever recover from seeing kids at the hotel window waving at antifascists, disappearing for a few minutes, and returning with a homemade sign saying ‘thank you’

Vastly outnumbered by antifascists, but nonetheless deeply depressing to watch the so-called ‘Bristol patriots’ march to a refugee hotel with Crusader iconography and chants about extermination. But, in the words of the counter protest, “there are many many more of us than you”

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...

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...

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...

10/10 delighted to see a podcast from @ilpost.it today about my book! Interesting discussion of right-wing martyr stories like Charlie Kirk today, too. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Very much looking forward to seeing this out in the world by the end of the year. I've got a chapter on commemoration of the Nasiriyah dead in Italy. Looks a wonderfully rich collection. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

dude’s giving Foro Italico

Please 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!

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A generous, well-written, and thorough review of 'Fathers of the Lega' by @amycking.bsky.social 'Richly researched and grounded in scholarly debates [...] Newth’s book reminds us that ideological strands thought to be dormant may yet re-emerge in new contexts' www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"The Pride of Britain" Fox - Charged under the Sexual Offence act for an upskirt photo on Twitter Hopkins - Detained in South Africa for spreading racial hatred and deported from Australia for breaching Covid Tommy "10 names" Robinson - Serial convict

A really strong, thought provoking start to the @publichistoryqub.bsky.social annual conference on ‘Public History in an age of Anxiety’ with @cathfletcher.bsky.social on museums and gun heritage, and Lisa Goff on the challenges of public history in Trump’s America

Very much looking forward to discussing antifascist pedagogies in Belfast this week!

Feel like they’d be firm friends with Italy’s umarell

Yesterday, I was reassured to see there were National Guards inside a real crime hotspot: The Natural History Museum. Those criminal… fossils?

Someone has immortalised the DC sandwich-thrower. This city works fast!