Marzia Maccaferri
@marzmac.bsky.social
Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian and James Bond expert. Gramsci and Brexit researcher @Queen Mary University of London. I love Martinis.
In English e italiano.
In English e italiano.
My apologies, a nasty flu has me confined to bed.
@cambsforeurope.bsky.social
@cambsforeurope.bsky.social
January 27, 2026 at 10:07 AM
My apologies, a nasty flu has me confined to bed.
@cambsforeurope.bsky.social
@cambsforeurope.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Handbook of @modernitaly.bsky.social Conference #day1. A new approach to the long history of Italy through transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Handbook of @modernitaly.bsky.social Conference #day1. A new approach to the long history of Italy through transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.
Not sure I’ll agree with this book or its thesis, but I’m definitely going to read it. And for the first time in my career as a historian, my narrow, nerdy interests are part of the public debate, and that feels great!
November 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Not sure I’ll agree with this book or its thesis, but I’m definitely going to read it. And for the first time in my career as a historian, my narrow, nerdy interests are part of the public debate, and that feels great!
Eric Hobsbawm, writing in 2007 for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica confirmed: ‘I think we in Britain were among the first to notice Gramsci, mainly because many British soldiers who returned home after fighting in Italy had heard of him.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
July 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Eric Hobsbawm, writing in 2007 for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica confirmed: ‘I think we in Britain were among the first to notice Gramsci, mainly because many British soldiers who returned home after fighting in Italy had heard of him.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
English historian Christopher Hill, though stating that Gramsci’s work was never discussed within the Communist Historians Group admitted that ‘the members of the Group had arrived independently at some of the ideas which Gramsci had so effectively presented’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
July 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
English historian Christopher Hill, though stating that Gramsci’s work was never discussed within the Communist Historians Group admitted that ‘the members of the Group had arrived independently at some of the ideas which Gramsci had so effectively presented’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
May 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
particularly by selectively disseminating messages within what we now call the media system.
April 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
particularly by selectively disseminating messages within what we now call the media system.
Writing assistant.
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Writing assistant.
Christmas 2024: Italian 'bottino'. Yep, I got that title too!
January 11, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Christmas 2024: Italian 'bottino'. Yep, I got that title too!
Not certain I like this
December 7, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Not certain I like this
Out-of-office reply set. Christmas mood on. Ready for Berlin, Barcelona, and Florence. Back in 2025.
December 7, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Out-of-office reply set. Christmas mood on. Ready for Berlin, Barcelona, and Florence. Back in 2025.
A pensarla come satira sarebbe stato impossibile 😳
December 1, 2024 at 8:10 PM
A pensarla come satira sarebbe stato impossibile 😳
Un po’ di cose da leggere 🤓🥹
November 26, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Un po’ di cose da leggere 🤓🥹
Making new friends
August 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Making new friends
Nice way to start the working week.
January 31, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Nice way to start the working week.