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Paul Ginsborg

Paul Anthony Ginsborg (18 July 1945 – 11 May 2022) was a British historian. In the 1980s, he was Professor at the University of Siena; from 1992, he was Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence.[1]

Education and activism

Ginsborg was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree in History in 1966.[2] He was a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.[3] With Pancho Pardi, he opposed Silvio Berlusconi's justice reforms, and campaigned alongside the girotondi movement.[4][5]

Law on Holocaust denial

Ginsborg was of Jewish parentage. Along with Carlo Ginzburg, Marcello Flores, Sergio Luzzatto, Claudio Pavone, Enzo Traverso, et al., he signed a call in January 2002 against a law project, presented by Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, to specifically penalize Holocaust denial. They argued that Italy's legislation was sufficient to cope with such acts. The amended law project finally restricted itself to reinforcing sentences concerning hate speech.[6]

Publications

References

  1. ^ "E' morto lo storico Paul Ginsborg, ha raccontato la storia d'Italia". la Repubblica (in Italian). 11 May 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Tripos results: Languages, History, and Natural Sciences", Times, 24 June 1966, p. 17.
  3. ^ "Paul Ginsborg obituary". The Guardian. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Berlusconi confronted by circular argument". The Guardian. 18 September 2002. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
  5. ^ Albertazzi, Daniele; Brook, Clodagh; Ross, Charlotte; Rothenberg, Nina (24 June 2009). Resisting the Tide: Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06). Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4411-7106-1.
  6. ^ Sous la pression des historiens, l’Italie renonce à pénaliser le négationnisme Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Human Rights League (LDH), 1 February 2007 (in French)

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