Dr Amy King
@amycking.bsky.social
Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
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”
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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”
dude’s giving Foro Italico
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
dude’s giving Foro Italico
Someone has immortalised the DC sandwich-thrower. This city works fast!
August 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Someone has immortalised the DC sandwich-thrower. This city works fast!
My journey home via Union Station, DC. What a time to be alive, honestly.
August 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My journey home via Union Station, DC. What a time to be alive, honestly.
Chuffed to see this review of my book in La Repubblica this week, by Benedetta Tobagi!
Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.
Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Chuffed to see this review of my book in La Repubblica this week, by Benedetta Tobagi!
Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.
Incidentally the same week Meloni ‘remembered’ the Bologna bombing without mentioning the word neofascism.
My first 4 July weekend has been 10/10!
July 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
My first 4 July weekend has been 10/10!
Super excited to see my book in La Repubblica today!
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Super excited to see my book in La Repubblica today!
New Yorkers! I’ll be speaking with @brianjgriffith.bsky.social at Columbia’s Italian Academy on the 80th anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Fascism. Come along for the Bella Ciao?
April 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New Yorkers! I’ll be speaking with @brianjgriffith.bsky.social at Columbia’s Italian Academy on the 80th anniversary of Italy’s liberation from Fascism. Come along for the Bella Ciao?
Very much looking forward to being part of a UNESCO roundtable in Paris this afternoon to discuss how education can respond to the rise of polarised ideologies and uncertainties. I’ll be talking about antifascist pedagogies and how knowledge of the past can build resistance today.
April 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Very much looking forward to being part of a UNESCO roundtable in Paris this afternoon to discuss how education can respond to the rise of polarised ideologies and uncertainties. I’ll be talking about antifascist pedagogies and how knowledge of the past can build resistance today.
A total joy to officially launch my book yesterday with the help of @georgenewth.bsky.social! So lovely to see friends and students from different departments and big thanks to the 🇮🇹 department for hosting (and to Asda for the book cake 😂)
March 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A total joy to officially launch my book yesterday with the help of @georgenewth.bsky.social! So lovely to see friends and students from different departments and big thanks to the 🇮🇹 department for hosting (and to Asda for the book cake 😂)
Took this photo last week, the day after more than 1000 people performed the Fascist salute on this very spot in via Acca Larenzia. Only one person was stopped by police: the one who shouted ‘viva la resistenza’
January 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Took this photo last week, the day after more than 1000 people performed the Fascist salute on this very spot in via Acca Larenzia. Only one person was stopped by police: the one who shouted ‘viva la resistenza’
Day 2 of the George Mosse Program’s conference ‘1964-2024: Fascism Seminar Revisited’ at the beautiful American Academy in Rome. Today we have panels on the Fascist body, imagery, and empire. A day of brain buzzing!
January 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Day 2 of the George Mosse Program’s conference ‘1964-2024: Fascism Seminar Revisited’ at the beautiful American Academy in Rome. Today we have panels on the Fascist body, imagery, and empire. A day of brain buzzing!
Bristol staff and students! If you’re passing through Woodland Road, please stop by and see the exhibition of my students’ antifascist zines in the Humanities building. They’re 🔥
October 29, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Bristol staff and students! If you’re passing through Woodland Road, please stop by and see the exhibition of my students’ antifascist zines in the Humanities building. They’re 🔥
A fun activity in my Memory class to get them thinking about shared ideas/points of contention among the Memory Studies theorists whose work we’ve looked at so far.
Would love to be a fly on the wall at some of these dinner parties!
Would love to be a fly on the wall at some of these dinner parties!
October 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
A fun activity in my Memory class to get them thinking about shared ideas/points of contention among the Memory Studies theorists whose work we’ve looked at so far.
Would love to be a fly on the wall at some of these dinner parties!
Would love to be a fly on the wall at some of these dinner parties!
Exciting new profile pic!
February 25, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Exciting new profile pic!
A sneak peek of the incredible foreword by Sandro Portelli (!) for my book - out soon - on the Rogo di Primavalle.
December 19, 2023 at 8:20 AM
A sneak peek of the incredible foreword by Sandro Portelli (!) for my book - out soon - on the Rogo di Primavalle.
Me looking at my Reading Week to do list
October 29, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Me looking at my Reading Week to do list
Hello BlueSky historians! Well, isn’t this nice?
I’m into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered and how it remembers. (Oh! And I have a book out in a couple of months, with a pretty nice cover if I do say so) 🗃️
I’m into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered and how it remembers. (Oh! And I have a book out in a couple of months, with a pretty nice cover if I do say so) 🗃️
September 20, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Hello BlueSky historians! Well, isn’t this nice?
I’m into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered and how it remembers. (Oh! And I have a book out in a couple of months, with a pretty nice cover if I do say so) 🗃️
I’m into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered and how it remembers. (Oh! And I have a book out in a couple of months, with a pretty nice cover if I do say so) 🗃️