Lucy Riall (born 1962) is a historian, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Riall studied at the London School of Economics and Cambridge, where she gained her PhD in 1988. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly. Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily.

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  • Lucy Riall (born 1962) is a historian, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Riall studied at the London School of Economics and Cambridge, where she gained her PhD in 1988. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly. Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily. Several of her books treat the social and political history of the Risorgimento; Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (2007) examined the popular cult of Giuseppe Garibaldi as a global cultural phenomenon. She is married to Francesco Filangeri.
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  • Lucy Riall (born 1962) is a historian, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Riall studied at the London School of Economics and Cambridge, where she gained her PhD in 1988. She was a lecturer in Modern European history at the University of Essex before moving to Birkbeck. Since 2004 she has been editor of the journal European History Quarterly. Riall has written on nineteenth-century state-formation and nationalism in Italy and Sicily.
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  • Lucy Riall
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