1. Introduction -- Part 1: Writing the History of Post-war Italy -- 2. The Reception of Paul Ginsborg’s History of Contemporary Italy -- 3. Ginsborg, Gambetta and the Mafia -- 4. Novelists, Historians and the Memory of the Resistance -- 5. Italy in the Present Tense: A Round Table Discussion with Paul Ginsborg, Perry Anderson, Simon Parker and John Foot on Paul Ginsborg’s Italy and Its Discontents -- Part 2: Political Conflict and Its Legacies -- 6. Rebellion, Romanticism and Narrative Construction in Luigi Pastro's Prison Memoirs -- 7. Reflections on Studying Revolutions: Venice 1848 from the Perspective of 1968 -- 8. Remembering Berlinguer: Mourning, Nostalgia and the Left -- 9. On the Visual Memory of the Resistance in Florence -- Part 3: Family, Culture and Consumption -- 10. Children as Consumers: The Market, Families, and Children in Italy, 1900–1990 -- 11. Popular Music and the New Left in Italy during the 1970s -- 12. ‘The Personal is Political’: Micro-history of a Slogan and Its Role with the Italian Radical Psychiatry Movement in the 1960s and 1970s -- Part 4: Paul Ginsborg as Activist and Teacher -- 13. Paul Ginsborg, un maestro -- 14. Paul Ginsborg on his Life and on 1968. Unpublished Oral History Interview 1984/5. Carried out in Cambridge by Ronald Fraser.-15. A Bibliography of the Works of Paul Ginsborg. Compiled by Stuart Oglethorpe -- 16. Index.

“This volume is a terrific tribute to Paul Ginsborg, and to his achievements as a teacher, intellectual and political activist. It reflects on the breadth of Ginsborg’s achievements as a historian of modern Italy as well as his lasting engagement with Italian civil society and politics from the 1960s until his death in 2022. An excellent primer on Italian historical research, the essays in this volume also capture the originality and commitment that characterized Ginsborg’s scholarship” – Lucy Riall, Professor, European University Institute, Florence “Paul Ginsborg was a remarkable figure – a distinguished historian of contemporary Italy but also a political activist who, for more than a decade, exercised a considerable influence on the Italian political scene. Prominent for his devastating analyses of Berlusconismo, he was at the same time a consistent thorn in the side of the established Italian Left. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, Ginsborg had a conception of politics that began at the grassroots of society, emphasising family and community and turning upside-down the conventional relation between people and power. Clear-sighted and compelling, Ginsborg's radical vision remains of vital importance in the confusions of the contemporary world” – Paul Corner, Emeritus Professor of European History, University of Siena This book brings together a group of British and Italian scholars who have made significant contributions to the historiography of modern Italy over the last three decades, dedicated to the influence of Paul Ginsborg. Reflecting Ginsborg's interest in the encounter of social and political history in modern Italy, contributions explore the varied forms taken by activism in civil society. Rather than just treating activism and engagement as limited, circumscribed phenomena within a political system, the essays consider these as interventions in the social. Taken together, the contributions gathered here highlight Ginsborg's contributions to scholarship and activism, as well as advancing our understanding of cultural change, institutional reform and the renewal of community in modern Italian history. John Foot is Professor of Modern Italian History in the Department of Italian, University of Bristol, UK. Stephen Gundle is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.