Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Degree Programme Director, MA Programmes in History

Qualifications

Laurea degree in History, University of Venice
PhD in International History, London School of Economics and Political Science

Previous Positions

Senior Research Fellow in History, University of Hertfordshire (2004-2006)
Visiting Lecturer, Italian Department, University College London (2003-2004)
Visiting Lecturer, School of History, Birkbeck College London (2001-2003)

Memberships

Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)
Societa' Italiana per lo Studio della Storia Contemporanea (SISSCO)

Honours and Awards

AHRC 3-year grant 'Bombing States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945', Universities of Newcastle, Exeter and Reading (2007-2010) 

AHRCAHRC/ESCR grant, Programme Cultures of Consumption, Transnational History of Italian Coffee (2004-2005)
Visiting Fellowship in Italian Studies, European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford (2003-2004)
Research grant by Comitato Nazionale Italia nel Mondo, Rome, Research on Italian emigration in Britain and Germany during the Fascist period (2001-2003)

Research Interests

My research interests are in the cultural and political history of Italy and Europe in the XX century, particularly Fascism, emigration, the Second World War from the civilians' perspective, and the history of consumption in the post-Second World War period.

Current Work

From October 2007 to October 2010 I was involved in the AHRC funded project on 'Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945', investigating the impact of bombing on civilians in Britain, Germany, France and Italy. The project was based at the universities of Newcastle, Exeter and Reading. See the project website: www.centres.ex.ac.uk/wss/bombing/index.htm

Postgraduate Supervision

I welcome proposals from postgraduates who are interested in any aspect of the political, cultural and social history of Italy in the 20th century, and on the impact of bombing in the Second World War in Europe.

Undergraduate Teaching

Varieties of History, HIS1029
The Italian Unification: nation, religion, revolution, HIS2113
Fascism in Italy, HIS3105
A Civilians' War, 1939-45, HIS2087
Italy post-1945: politics, culture and miracles, HIS3109

Postgraduate Teaching

Conflict in European History, HIS8052
Conflict in European History: Case Studies HIS8053

Dissertation Training, HIS8098 

• Baldoli C. Spring 1943: the Fiat Strikes and the Collapse of the Italian Home Front. History Workshop Journal 2011, (72), 181-189.
• Baldoli C, Knapp A. Forgotten Blitzes: Italy and France under Allied Air Attack, 1940-1945. London: Continuum, 2012. In Preparation.
• Baldoli C. Religion and Bombing in Italy, 1940-1945. In: Baldoli, C; Knapp, A; Overy, R, ed. Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945. London: Continuum, 2011.
• Baldoli C, Fincardi M. Italian Society Under Anglo-American Bombs: Propaganda, Experience and Legend, 1940-1945. Historical Journal 2009, 52(4), 1017-1038.
• Baldoli C. A History of Italy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Baldoli C. The 'Northern Dominator' and the Mare Nostrum: Fascist Italy's 'Cultural War' in Malta. Modern Italy 2008, 13(1), 5-20.
• Baldoli C. Guido Miglioli: percorsi di un esule cattolico nell'Italia del dopoguerra. Snodi - Pubblici e privati nella storia contemporanea. 2007, 1(1), 15-43.
• Baldoli C, Morris J, ed. Made in Italy. Consumi e identita' collettive nel secondo dopoguerra. Rome:Carocci,2006.
• Baldoli C. Un fallimento del fascismo all’estero: La costruzione delle piccole Italie nella Germania nazista. Italia contemporanea 2004,2004 235 221-238.
• Baldoli C. Anglo-Italian Fascist Solidarity?: The Shift from Italophilia to Naziphilia in the BUF. In: Gottlieb, J.V., Linehan, T.P, ed. The Culture of Fascism : Visions of the Far Right in Britain. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, 2004, pp.147-161.
• Baldoli C, ed. Vera Brittain and Marie Louise Berneri, Il seme del caos. Scritti sui bombardamenti di massa (1939-45). Caserta, Italy: Spartaco, 2004.
• Baldoli C. Exporting Fascism: Italian Fascists and Britain’s Italians in the 1930s. New York; Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2003.
• Baldoli C. Bissolati immaginario: Le origini del fascismo cremonese. Dal socialismo riformista allo squadrismo. Cremona, Italy: Cremonabooks, 2002.
• Baldoli C. L’espresso. Modernità e tradizione nell’Italia del caffè. Memoria e ricerca 2007, 23, 13-26.
• Baldoli C. Il nostro maggio. All’origine della festa dei lavoratori: autobiografie e testimonianze da Chicago. Caserta:Spartaco,2005.