Staff profiles
Roger Absalom
Honorary research fellow
Phone 0114 225 3598
E-mail r.absalom@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
- Italian popular responses to the crisis of 1943-1945
- Photographic history of Liberation in Italy 1943-1948: I am preparing a book based two recent exhibitions by Carol Jefferson-Davies and myself
Research collaborations
Continuing research collaboration with the Istituto storico della Resistenza in Piemonte and the Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello Foundation in Perugia.
Research outputs since 2001
Perugia liberata. Documenti anglo-americani sull'occupazione alleata di Perugia 1944-1945, Leo S Olschki, Florence, 2001
Gli Alleati e la ricostruzione in Toscana (1944-45) Documenti anglo-americani, Vol. II, Leo S Olschki, Florence, 2001
'Chiaroscuri: towards a photographic history of Liberation in Italy', in Proceedings of International Conference' 1943-1945. The Long Liberation Italy in the International Context', Turin, Istoreto, 2006 (in press).
Italian Fascism and the Peasants' included in the Oxford Handbook on Fascism edited by Professor Richard Bosworth (in press).
Photo-history exhibitions
2005: Exhibition 'Chiaroscuri: Faces of Liberation, Italy 1943-1948', ran for six months in Turin, attracting over 10,000 visitors.
2006: Exhibition 'Liberation in Italy: Faces of Women and Children', ran for one month in Perugia.
