George Newth

• Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath

George Newth is Lecturer in Politics at University of Bath,

He is a member of the Reactionary Politics Research Network for which he co-convenes a fortnightly reading group to discuss relevant publications.

George's research focuses principally on the how far-right parties attempt to normalise their reactionary politics via discourses of common sense. This links to broader research interests pertaining to the role of populism and nativism in far right articulations of regionalist and nationalist politics.

His book with Routledge, Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic's oldest surviving political party, the populist far-right Lega (Nord), tracing its origins to post-war Italy.

• –present PhD Candidate in Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath

• 2011 UCL, MA / Contemporary Italian Culture in History
• 2007 Cardiff Metropolitan University (Formally UWIC, BA Modern History and Popular Culture

• 2018 Modern Italy, The Movimento Autonomista Bergamasco and the Lega Nord: continuities and discontinuities
• 2014 Progressus - Rivista Storia. Università di Siena, A brief comparative history of economic regionalism in the North Italian Macro-Region and Catalonia

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