Professor Richard Bosworth

Richard Bosworth is Professor of Modern History, and Senior Research Fellow based at Jesus College

My research has mainly focused on the political and social history of modern Italy and on its historiography.  My books include two prize-winning studies, Mussolini(London: 2002; rev. ed. 2010) and Mussolini’s Italy: life under the dictatorship(2006).  I edited the OUP Handbook of fascism (2009) and with Joe Maiolo of KCL am currently editing volume 2 of the 3 volume new CUP History of the Second World War.  My most recent book was Whispering city: Rome and its histories (London and New Haven, 2011) and a new book Italian Venice: a history has just been submitted to the same publishers and should appear in 2014.  I continue to be an active reviewer across a range of subjects, notably theTimes Higher Education and History Today, as well as for more academic journals.  I have just begun new research into the nature of dictatorship, as well as a more specific study of the historical value of the newly available and notably lengthy diaries of Clara Petacci, Mussolini’s last lover.

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