British military encounters with Italian civilians, 1943-1946

意大利战役产生了一个显着的文学作品从英国士兵谁在那里。戈登·莱特的《罗萨诺》（1955年）、埃里克·纽比的《亚平宁山脉的爱情与战争》（1971年）、斯图尔特·胡德的《从我的头骨里挖出来的鹅卵石》（1973年），后来以《卡利诺》（1983年）的名字再版，都在英国引起了强烈的反响。最近，詹姆斯·霍兰德（James Holland）的《意大利的悲伤：1944-45年的战争之年》（2008）为意大利人如何经历第二次世界大战的结束提供了一个新的视角。这个项目将试图研究英国士兵和意大利平民之间发生的遭遇，挖掘这一丰富的社会历史接缝，以获得对战时遭遇的新理解。IWM在这个问题上有丰富的材料。官方的照片和影片极其详细地记录了这场战役的过程;私人信件、日记和口述历史访谈提供了强有力的证据;几位官方的战争艺术家被派往意大利--包括爱德华·阿迪佐内和爱德华·鲍登。学生-与他们的共同监督者的输入-将决定如何最好地专注于这个故事的一个可管理的和有意义的部分。他们可能会采取区域重点（一个城市或农村地区，那里有激烈的活动或战略基地）;一种遭遇-战俘逃跑，党派活动，重建工作，与妇女的遭遇，印度军队的存在;一个主题，如饥饿和流离失所;或者战争的某个特定月份--换句话说，该项目提供了详细的历史研究和参与的机会，本课程旨在让学生了解意大利口述历史的理论和实践，并参观相关档案，并在可能的情况下进行口述历史访谈。

The Italian campaign produced a notable literary output from British soldiers who were there. Gordon Lett's Rossano (1955), Eric Newby's Love and War in the Apennines (1971), Stuart Hood's Pebbles from my skull (1973) republished as Carlino (1983), all made strong impressions in the UK when they appeared. More recently James Holland's Italy's Sorrow: A Year of War 1944-45 (2008) has provided a new slant on how Italians experienced the end of the Second World War. This project would seek to examine the encounters that took place between British soldiers and Italian civilians, mining this rich seam of social history for new understandings of encounter in time of war. IWM has a wealth of material on this subject. Official photographs and film document the course of the campaign in exceptional detail; personal letters and diaries, and oral history interviews provide strong evidence; and several of the official war artists were deployed in Italy - including Edward Ardizzone and Edward Bawden. The student - with input from their co-supervisors - would decide how best to focus on a manageable and meaningful segment of this story. They might take a regional focus (a city or rural area where there was intense activity or a strategic base); a type of encounter - prisoner of war escapes, partisan activity, efforts at reconstruction, encounters with women, the Indian Army presence; a theme such as hunger and displacement; or a particular month of the war - in other words, a snapshot of activity at a particular juncture in the war.The project offers the opportunity both for detailed historical research and also to engage with the theory and practice of oral history in Italy and the student would be expected to visit relevant archives and where possible to conduct their own oral history interviews.