Andrea Azzarelli
@azzab.bsky.social
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
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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
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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We are very excited to share the news that a friend of the EU-GUNS & GlobArms projects and a former member of @matteomillan.bsky.social previous ERC project, Alessandro Saluppo, has just published his monograph on armed associations and political violence in Edwardian Britain (1901-1914).
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We are very excited to share the news that a friend of the EU-GUNS & GlobArms projects and a former member of @matteomillan.bsky.social previous ERC project, Alessandro Saluppo, has just published his monograph on armed associations and political violence in Edwardian Britain (1901-1914).
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It's time to introduce our expert on the British gun history, Anna Moro! Anna is a PhD student in History at the University of Padua. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd #dissgea
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's time to introduce our expert on the British gun history, Anna Moro! Anna is a PhD student in History at the University of Padua. #euguns #unipd #dissgea_unipd #dissgea
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To reach a global customer base, Fabrique Nationale, the Belgian gunmaker renowned for producing the Browning brand, translated its advertising materials early on outside of Belgium. #euguns #eugunssnippets #europeanhistory #gunhistory
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
To reach a global customer base, Fabrique Nationale, the Belgian gunmaker renowned for producing the Browning brand, translated its advertising materials early on outside of Belgium. #euguns #eugunssnippets #europeanhistory #gunhistory
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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
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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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.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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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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”.
September 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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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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
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
August 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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
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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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
August 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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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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
August 1, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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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
July 24, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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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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
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
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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
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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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...
July 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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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.
June 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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.
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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
June 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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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?
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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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.
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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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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.
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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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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
Source: The Sketch, 6th July 1910
Credit: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
Source: The Sketch, 6th July 1910
Credit: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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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
Source: A.W. Gamage Ltd.: General Catalogue 1911
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
Source: A.W. Gamage Ltd.: General Catalogue 1911
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The panel will include such renowned scholars as @cathfletcher.bsky.social @drewmckevitt.bsky.social @briandelay.bsky.social @afilindra.bsky.social and David J. Silverman.
May 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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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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
May 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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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
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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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
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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
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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
April 9, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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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📖 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
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
February 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
📖 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
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