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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 4d

Today we present the PI of our other project, @azzab.bsky.social! Andrea Azzarelli directs GlobArms, a study of policing firearms trafficking in Italy, France, and the UK. #globarms #unipd #dissgea #dissgea_unipd

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · 16d

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 · Sep 4

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 · Aug 22

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 · Aug 6

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 · Aug 1

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 · Jul 24

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 · Jul 23

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 · Jul 17

Produced from 1899 by the Fabrique Nationale in Liège, Belgium, the “Browning” pistol (model 1900) marked a true turning point in the European market for personal defence weapons. With its innovative and compact design, which made it easy to conceal under everyday clothing...

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Roxane Bonnardel Mira @roxanebm.bsky.social · Jun 29

À la journée d'étude du @revue-lms.bsky.social, je présenterai les premiers résultats d'une enquête menée pour @euguns.bsky.social sur la répression du port d'arme prohibée au début du 20e siècle, lorsque les petites armes à feu étaient des objets du quotidien, dans les poches et dans les foyers.

programme de la journée d'étude du mouvement social

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · Jun 12

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 · Jun 4

How was public order established in Italy during the liberal period from 1861 to 1914? How did policies aimed at controlling subversive and criminal activities influence the development of the Italian state?

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our colleague and head of the GlobArms research project, @azzab.bsky.social, has recently published a monograph which provides the answers to these questions. Published by Rubbettino Editore, the book offers a glimpse into a crucial period in post-unification Italy.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · May 28

These forms of everyday self-defence speak directly to the themes explored in the ERC EU-GUNS project, which investigates how ordinary people dealt with the questions of protection, legality, and control between 1870 and 1970.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · May 28

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 · May 28

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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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · May 21

The panel will include such renowned scholars as @cathfletcher.bsky.social @drewmckevitt.bsky.social @briandelay.bsky.social @afilindra.bsky.social and David J. Silverman.

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · May 16

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 · May 6

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 · Apr 17

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

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

www.revistasmarcialpons.es

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EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social · Apr 9

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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Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social · Feb 21

📖 New Book Release! 📖

I am thrilled to announce the publication of my latest book: Police, Crime, and Public Order in Liberal Italy. The National Model and the Case of late 19th-Century Sicily (1861–1914).
📚 More details here: shorturl.at/Lukud

#History #Policing #Crime #Italy #Mafia #BookRelease

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Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social · Feb 21

From prefects and carabinieri to riots and institutional reforms, it reconstructs a crucial phase in the making of the modern Italian state.

In short, an in-depth look at how policing and repression shaped state-building in Liberal Italy.

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Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social · Feb 21

To what extent did repressive practices in Sicily - particularly against the Mafia - contribute to the formation of a national policing model?

The book delves into the interplay between law enforcement, criminal networks, and political unrest in post-unification Italy.

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Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Published by Rubbettino Editore, this study is part of the prestigious CEPOC series on police history.
How was public order built in liberal Italy? How did policing strategies against subversive movements and crime shape the development of the Italian state?

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