Willson, Perry

My main research interests lie in women's/gender history and in the history of Italian Fascism. Amongst other topics, I have published on the role of female members and leaders in the Fascist Party; the history of the rural world; abortion; labour and business history; imperialism; the Fascist mass mobilising organisations; the Italian Resistance; the history of the private sphere; and on representations of motherhood in Italy and its diaspora. My most recent monograph explores the history of Italian women over the course of the twentieth century. I am currently researching the social, political, and cultural history of Fascist uniforms.

I was Chair of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy from 2006-09 and Vice-Convenor of Women's History Scotland from 2005 to 2018.

I serve on the Editorial Board of Modern Italy journal and was a founder member of the Editorial Collective of Gender and History journal.

I have held Fellowships at the Einaudi Foundation (Turin), the European University Institute (Florence), IASH (Edinburgh) and Nuffield College (Oxford).

I was the 2019 Federico Chabod Visiting Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Milan.

Undergraduate

• Modern Imperialism and Decolonisation (Level Two)
  
• Making History (Level Three)
• Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Europe (Level Three)
• Fascist Italy (Level Four)

Postgraduate

• History Skills and Sources
• Documenting Dissent