WW2 & Modern History
The Avezzano Earthquake: Marsica, Numero Unico
Remembering the 1915 Avezzano earthquake through a fragile fundraising book created by Italy’s greatest writers and artists
Life in Abruzzo
WW2 & Modern History
13 articles in this section
Call the Midwife: The Quiet Women of Care
A visual and archival journey from a MuNDA birth painting to municipal midwives and modern nursing - care that never changed, only names.
A Mirror Across Centuries: Abruzzo and the Bourbon Memory
Bourbon Abruzzo feels like today - a reminder there’s no going back. History echoes forward; the past is not our future forever changed ahead
Liberation Day: Exclusion and The Enemy Within
April 25th — Festa della Liberazione — marks the day in 1945 in Italy that the resistance movement issued a call to national insurrection. Mussolini was captured 2 days later, executed 3 days later and marks the path to the 2nd May Nazi surrender and Italian occupation and end of the 'Fascist' regime. While the retreating Nazis left devastation in their wake, it’s vital to remember: they were not the architects of Italian oppression.
Honouring a Founding Mother – Maria Agamben Federici
Black History Month – The Tuskegee Airmen in The Abruzzi
Abruzzo’s Internment & Concentration Camps
Brooklyn Records – A story of Migration from Carunchio (CH)
Celano’s Ice Miner Boys
Armistice Always Please: The Cost of War in Abruzzo
Missing Pieces: War, Abbateggio and a POW
