#euguns
@historyned.bsky.social is now talking about German international arms dealers from the Empire to the Nazis

#gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Now @roztan.bsky.social is talking about paramilitarism and revolutionary efforts in the late Ottoman period in the Balkans #gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea
December 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Right now, @camilleriana.bsky.social is talking about firearms in the colony of Italian East Africa.

#gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Now Dr @jenniferwellington.bsky.social is talking about war trophies and souvenirs

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@azzab.bsky.social is now talking about the Italian arms trade abroad

#gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Prof. Sven Reichardt is giving a talk about the use of guns by fascist paramilitaries in Italy and Germany

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The head of the GlobArms project, @azzab.bsky.social, has just had his article on French shooting societies in Third Republic France (1871-1914) published with the journal Contemporanea.
#globarms #gunhistory #Frenchhistory #euguns
December 23, 2025 at 1:05 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
October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Prof. Giacomo Macola is talking about the domestication of the gun in nineteenth-century Central Africa

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Dr Arnau Fernandéz Pasalados is now talking about the circulation of weapons and irregular warfare in Spain in the years 1936-1952

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Last but not least, members of the ERC EU-GUNS project are presenting their research on gun culture and history in France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Italy.

Here: Assumpta Castillo Cañiz and @roxanebm.bsky.social

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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
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
The second day of the workshop "New Perspectives on the History of Firearms" has begun with Prof. @matteomillan.bsky.social's introduction into the ERC EU-GUNS project.

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The 1st part of our panel, "An Armed Nation Versus a Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture and Gun Control in the USA and Europe", chaired by Rosamund Johnston at the annual meeting of @historians.org in Chicago, has just begun!
#aha2026 #euguns #gunhistory
January 9, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Our colleague, @roxanebm.bsky.social, is now talking about self-defence and banal transgressions of gun laws in France between the 1900s and 30s.
#aha2026 #euguns #gunhistory
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Prof. Jennifer Carlson has joined us online to present her project on gun violence and gun control in the U.S.

#gunhistory #euguns #globarms #unipd #dissgea
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The 2nd part of our panel, "An Armed Nation Versus a Disarmed Continent? Gun Culture and Gun Control in the USA and Europe", chaired by @cathfletcher.bsky.social, at the annual meeting of @historians.org in Chicago, is over.
#aha2026 #euguns #gunhistory
January 9, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Our last panel is chaired by the head of our project, @matteomillan.bsky.social, and includes papers from Laura Schettini and our team member, @roxanebm.bsky.social. The topics are firearms in French households as well as women's self-defence in France and Italy. #euguns #globarms #unipd #sorbonne
February 20, 2026 at 3:50 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
May 28, 2025 at 2:54 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
Desarme y rearme de civiles en España (1868-1936) | Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea
www.revistasmarcialpons.es
April 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The workshop "New Perspectives on the History of Firearms" begins now! The organisers, @azzab.bsky.social and @matteomillan.bsky.social, have welcomed the audience.

If you're in Padova, feel free to join us at Palazzo Liviano! (Pzza Capitaniato 7)

#gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgeaunipd
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 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
May 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our friend, Dr. Rosamund Johnston, has just published an article on Czechoslovakia’s Cold War arms towns as sites of military globalisation with Sage Journals! (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...) #euguns #globarms #linkingarms #unipd #dissgea #univie #recetvienna #gunhistory #armshistory
May 27, 2026 at 12:20 PM
“The world at present apparently wants both the war system and peace.” So observed H.C. Engelbrecht and F.C. Hanighen in "Merchants of Death" (1934). Their words captured a central contradiction of the interwar years. #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea #armshistory
June 18, 2026 at 1:17 PM